An elderly woman of 94 years young once said that people should knit whilst watching tv so as not to waste their time.   She knit all sorts of great things but finished up her last five years in knitting up excess baby yarns  into sweet baby outfits to donate to the hospital gift shop.  I learned to knit in Grade 7, in a textile arts class.   We knit large shawls on big needles and I thought it ugly and strange.   A year later my aunt taught me how to knit with finer yarn and smaller needles and to knit the cable stitch.  Wow.  What an eye opener.   Most of my friends knit, some are true artisans, knitting exquisite garments.   My computer saavy grandsons perked up when I said that knitting resembled basic computer language with k = 1 and p=0.  I taught the Grade 5 tech class to knit on their arms.   The only kids who managed it immediately were those of Asian and South Asian heritage who had watched their grannies knitting and were often called upon to help wind skeins into balls.  There’s a great history of knitting by Bishop Rudd in England.   Finely Knit wool caps, leggings and sleeves were found buried in the mud of the wreckage of the War ship commissioned by Henry VIII, the Mary Rose, which sank in the English Channel with 700 lives lost.  When I knit for someone it is as if part of my being is entwined within the garment to keep them safe and warm.

An elderly woman of 94 years young once said that people should knit whilst watching tv so as not to waste their time.   She knit all sorts of great things but finished up her last five years in knitting up excess baby yarns  into sweet baby outfits to donate to the hospital gift shop.  I learned to knit in Grade 7, in a textile arts class.   We knit large shawls on big needles and I thought it ugly and strange.   A year later my aunt taught me how to knit with finer yarn and smaller needles and to knit the cable stitch.  Wow.  What an eye opener.   Most of my friends knit, some are true artisans, knitting exquisite garments.   My computer saavy grandsons perked up when I said that knitting resembled basic computer language with k = 1 and p=0.  I taught the Grade 5 tech class to knit on their arms.   The only kids who managed it immediately were those of Asian and South Asian heritage who had watched their grannies knitting and were often called upon to help wind skeins into balls.  There’s a great history of knitting by Bishop Rudd in England.   Finely Knit wool caps, leggings and sleeves were found buried in the mud of the wreckage of the War ship commissioned by Henry VIII, the Mary Rose, which sank in the English Channel with 700 lives lost.  When I knit for someone it is as if part of my being is entwined within the garment to keep them safe and warm.

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