Handwork and The Craft

Mighty Mountain Girl on Three King's Day

Aww...it makes me so happy to see the girl in her sweater. The hardest part about knitting for children at a long distance is wondering  if it is going to fit once you're done making it! I worried it might be too small -- but now that see on her I am well pleased. It's pretty cosy and she is beautiful. 

And I pretty much love this picture of the Mountain Girl and her four month brother. Look how he stares at her so adoringly as she instructs him in everything from how to park a back hoe to Norse mythology. (She went as a Valkery for Halloween.)  What I also like is the generational knit-ware! The sweater I knitted for the MMG and the red hat for the wee one. But my mother knit the beautiful yellow sweater for my son -- more than 30 years ago. I save everything she knit and glad to have done so. 

Forest Sweater, Mountain Girl and Brother

I am so happy that the finished sweater for my granddaughter knitted up really well and the lovely braided buttons were a great choice by my daughter. This is one of my favorite pictures of my sweet girl and her baby brother -- the adoring expression on his face, and the girl telling him about Norse Myths, how trucks work, different kinds of bird song, and invented verses for the never-ending "Wheels on the Bus" song.  I also love this photo because my mother is present here as a knitter in my grandson's sweater and hat. My son wore the sweater when he was a wee one, and the little hat, the last thing my mother knit before she died, has been worn by the children of friends and then returned so that my daughter could make sure this one too had a chance to connect to his grandmother.