I Gotta Try!

So I declared it this morning… I’m gonna start knitting or at least try to learn. I know I know, I have enough on my plate but something is saying I need to do this. And a few of you know I may have tried learning to knit on a bus trip to NYC a few years ago and I wasn’t super successful at it. In fact the scarf/blanket/whatever it was suppossed to be that I had started, I showed my mom and told her when I was done I was going to give it to her. She smiled in her “oh dear that is so sweet” kinda way (you know the I’m being polite but how do I tell you this…) and said oh no you should keep it, its your first one. LOL, my feelings weren’t even hurt that she thought it was a big disaster cause I totally  knew it was one too. Plus she probably also knew I’d decide knitting wasn’t my thing (I didn’t have the patience for it), which of course I did pretty shortly after starting that whatever you want to call it. To this day that project is still sitting in a Jeffrey Gale basket in my family room along with the last knitting piece she was working on when she died and some bits of random balls of yarn from her past pieces and a ball of yarn that was at her house that just spoke to me. Hmmm maybe it spoke to me cause it wants me to knit it into something beautiful some day.

But as usual I’m getting a little off track. The point is I feel like I need to knit, to continue her legacy some how. I don’t know what it is I just want to make beautiful things like she did and put little inspirational tags on them that make people happy and inspire them. Its crazy her knitting had such an impact on so many. Her pieces were amazing and unique but it was those darn tags that really did it. Somehow she knew just the perfect little inspirational tag to attach to each of her pieces and somehow those pieces and those tags got to just the right person at just the right time they needed it. I don’t want the world to lose that, I want everybody to have a knitted piece with just the right tag.

She started knitting later in life….well at least I think she did. I don’t remember her knitting when I was younger or maybe if she did it wasn’t like the way she knits now (or did, ugh my tenses will never be right talking about her so don’t critic the grammer of all this, please). The point is, if she could start later in life then I don’t see why I can’t start later too. Besides, I have the desire now, a reason so to speak…Plus I have the amazing “Sock Sisters” ( I’ll tell you more about these woman later, but they were moms knitting posse and they are just the best) who are willing to help me so I’m going to have not necesaarily the Yoda I really want teaching me but some pretty good Jedi Knitting Masters nonetheless to help me. So that’s it, I’ve declared it…its out in the universe, so now I gotta do it or at least try. She’d want me to at least try!