It's been a while since I've done a "Favorite things Friday" post...I've talked about many of the favorite things I like to do now, and things I liked to do in the past. Knitting was a favorite thing from ages ago...
I have to confess that I never did like knitting as much as I like crocheting. My dear friend, Eileen, told me if I could crochet I could knit. I told her I couldn't knit. I joined a knitting club while I was in school, and did not do well with it. I would NOT want to post some of my misshaped projects that I did in that class! But my friend was insistent, and signed us both up for a knitting class.
We joked about that class for years afterward. It was very evident from the even the first class that my friend knew more about knitting, than the person teaching the class. We honestly, were not making fun of the instructor she was good, and very nice and helpful, and my friend was a good sport and still attended all the classes with me. Because of her encouragement, I managed to knit about 5 sweaters, and various other small knitting projects. I only have two sweater that I have posted today left. I made the sweaters for my daughter, and when did not want them anymore she gave them back to me. After all the work (knitting did not come easy to me) I couldn't part with them.
After my very special friend passes away from cancer...I put the knitting things away for a while. I will always be grateful for my friend and all that we shared, even knitting!
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."~Edward De Bono
