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Monday Sketch and a HandKnit Hat

I'm working on a more sustained post -- about how I'm feeling about our "new" home two-and-a-half years into the move -- but for a quick Monday greeting, I offer you this little portrait I painted a week or two ago of the Six. Seemed only fair that I tried sketching her after she'd captured me so endearingly on paper.

As the scrawled text says, I sketched this from a photo -- the hat H is wearing is one that the Ten and I knit together over way too many months.

Knitters might be interested in the following; non-knitters may wish to skip! But if you're teaching someone to knit, especially if that someone is 8 or 10-ish, this is a useful approach for someone who can make fairly reliable knit stitches, but isn't yet ready to purl.

I cast on and did the ribbing for Purl Soho's Classic Cuffed Hat and Ten knit many rows of the stocking stitch (on circular needles, as she doesn't yet know how to purl). I will admit that I was thrilled to see her knit 5 or 6 rows at a go for the first few visits after we started the project, and then resigned that she could only be cajoled into one or two the next visit or two, and than somewhat disappointed -- but determined not to cajole/nag anymore -- when she preferred to read or draw or build something the visits after that. When enough weeks had gone by that it was clear she wasn't going to knit anymore voluntarily, I knit enough rows to bring it to the necessary length and then I knit the decreases, which I'd always said I'd do anyway, although I would have liked to show her how they worked. And I'd hoped she would have made the pom-pom, because I know she can and she likes to. But it's still a hat that she knit a good portion of, and she's really pleased with that.

I probably pushed my own kids more to complete a project in which they'd lost interest, but it doesn't seem a wise approach for a Nana, and I reminded myself that my goal was to show her that knitting is fun and that it's something she can do. If she wants. And I'll probably be around when she remembers that and decides she wants to try again. . . Or not. If not, I'd much rather she remembers fondly the times that we knit together. 

And that's it for this blogpost on this Monday morning, a beautifully sunny, crisp January day in Vancouver. . . I think I'm finally getting some traction on a schedule that works for my various endeavours and responsibilities and adventures and play -- What about you?

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