I've been lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to run knitting workshops for local parents (it has to be said, mums) through our local childrens' centres. Tuesday mornings are spent with a group of mums and their toddlers, learning the basics and mastering the mysteries of knit and purl. Today was our second session and, I have to say, all my expectations have been surpassed. Everyone knitted at some point in between our sessions. And everyone knitted today. We're just about to get started on individual projects and already most of them are finding the basics manageable and enjoyable. I get such pleasure from seeing people's confidence grow and find it amazing that 2 sticks and some yarn create something else as well as a square or a teddy scarf.
One lady seems to have started up her very own knitting group since our first session and now has her neighbours, family and daughter taking up the needles or starting again. It's just fantastic.
Now, though, I'm already starting to lose my own personal knitting time (PKT). I can see it shrinking between workshops, writing and part-time work. I need to do what I advise my new knitters to do. I need to find some yarn that I love and a pattern I'm itching to try and work my way through it. I fancy a shrug or a kind of loose, wraparound cardigan that will keep me cosy in the spring, perhaps in a beautiful high-end yarn - a treat knit, a luxury knit.
Ideas please?
1 comments:
I think another trip to you know where may be called for ....
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