Hard Times

 It's weird how at different times in your life, going through hard times, or good times, you pick up different projects to work on?  Crafts and hobbies are so good to have on hand because you never know what you are in the mood in.  Recently I lost my mom of 92 years.  Even when you know it's time, it is never easy to lose a parent. My mom was my best friend.  While she never knit or crocheted, sewed or wrote stories, she loved seeing and hearing about what I was working on. She always marveled at every little items I created whether it was a hat or a dish cloth!

She was my number one fan.  It's not been very long since she died, but I still keep picking up my phone to call her before I remember I cannot.

Knitting has helped me rock away in tears, crocheting the dishcloths my mom loved me to make for her has helped keep me busy over a holiday weekend.  Now back at work I want to just stop what I'm doing and pick up some yarn and lose myself in the stitches.

My mom is where I get my bullheadedness from. You could never tell her she could not do something because she would find a way to get it done. I am the same.  

But she also taught me faith, trust and hope. Those are the securities I craft into my yarn projects and hope the bearer feels them.

One of the things that is helping keep me steady through these days of hurt and sorrow is knitting on my granddaughters' sweaters.  I finished the purple one and have begun on the oldest's red and splashy color one.  I have the back finished and am working on the front.  I can tell sweaters are going to be my next marathon of knitting items, much like my bears, socks and hats.  At least they take longer to knit so there should not be quite so many of them hiding in my gift stash!

Here we are, using the same plain easy pattern, but in red, pink and black and white. Worked with Hobby Lobby's 'I Love This Yarn' yarn.