It's easy to get caught up in our problems and worries as life rushes past us. To balance this out I like to "count my blessings" as my mother used to say to me as a child. I now call it my gratitude list, but call it what you want. So, I'd like to share with you the things I am grateful for this week:
1. My son finding joy and awe in a thunderstorm even when it woke us up at 5:45 a.m.
2. My knitting as it gives me a focus while calming me.
3. My mother (who lives with us) for helping out more on a week when I didn't feel so well.
One of the items that is always on my list is my friends and how they stand by me with my erratic communication skills and tendency towards holing up in my house (with knitting of course.) They pull me out of my shell and keep me connected to the world which I so need. To let them know how much I care I like to give gifts. I don't usually plan it, but for instance I'll have some yarn left over from a project and think "this would make a great coffee cup holder, or fingerless mitts etc." and the color usually directs me to who it should go to.
This week I gave a Christmas in July gift to my friend Kelly who is also my son's Daycare Provider. I had almost a full skein of Malabrigo yarn left after making my Elizabeth Zimmermann's Mobius Vest. The color is called Sunset and I knew right away it was perfect for Kelly. The hat pattern I chose was Lotus and what a fun quick knit it was to make, but afterwards I still had a fair amount of yarn left. Hmm...what to do? Pull out my 75 Yards Malabrigo Fingerless Mitts pattern that's what. I just made it with less then 12 inches left of yarn upon completion! Oh how I LOVE using up every little bit of yarn! Both knitting patterns are free by the way. Here's how they came out:
My mother modeled that hat with the restriction of not showing her face. Oh well, she is a sport to stop what she was doing so I could take a photo before I gave them to Kelly. The hat just covers the tops of the ears. I did 4 repeats of the pattern, but maybe could have done five. I made a mistake that corrected itself over a few rows, but it's hard even for me to pick out so I think it's o.k. The mitts came out just fine as predicted. When I gave them to Kelly the first words out of her mouth was "I love the color!" which made me smile all the more. What fun it is to give gifts for no particular reason! I highly recommend it.
What is it you are grateful for this week?
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