i’ve got myself on kind of a roll here.
it’s just so exciting to see my daughter creating like this.
before this week’s hat, when she was knitting lots of little garter stitch squares,
there was the lingering question of what to do with them.
then, a neighbor was expecting
her 6th child
and my kid decided to sew them together
to be a baby blanket for her kid.
as much as i lean toward more pared down simplicity,
my daughter dreams in complex forms.
hand knit ‘baby blanket’
wasn’t moving enough for her.
she wanted all the squares of random leftover yarn colors
to meld into some overall picture.
if i’m being honest,
i tried to discourage all the complexity.
i thought a full blankie for a first project was already ambitious enough,
but she would not be dissuaded.
when her plans
meant she would have to learn
intarsia (so that a few of the squares could be two colors side by side),
i tried to ‘talk her down’ once again and she was having none of that.
in the end, her first garter stitch intarsia attempts were
fabulous ( i tried to hide my shock by gushing).
because she was so tied to the colors, the yarn weights don’t match.
when i asked, she told me this was her ‘artistic interpretation’
of knitting. what was i gonna say to that?
as well, she finished the full blanket very shortly after the baby was born.
welcome to this world, andrew matthias.
we’re so very glad to meet you.
enjoy the rainbow filled blue sky and pine tree covered mountains on your blanket
(if you’re like me, you have to squint and tip your head a little to see the scene).
every stitch was knit with oodles of love and rapt attention.