On 't' and OT (knitting and groaning)

You've all made me nervous now! This is the first year I've decided to give my MIL (well, mother out-law actually, but that's a different story) a hand-made gift. She's very hard to buy for because she really has everything she needs and doesn't want for much. I'm pretty confident she'll be lovely about it because she adores her son (and me by proxy) but you just never know. Her taste and mine are VERY different, but I tried to make something that I'd thought she'd like, I just hope I've judged her taste appropriately.

My own mother on the other hand has many a hand-made present from me and most languish in a dark corner somewhere. I'm doing working on a large project for her upcoming significant brithday. If she isn't appreciative, then for my own sanity it will be the last of my creations she receives.

People just don't seem to value personal creations as they should. Love an object or not, to know that somebody thought well enough of me to spend hours of their time making me something is very touching. I received a crochet shawl from a friend once, now had I made it for myself I might have made it in a different colour, but I love it because she spent all that time and effort on it for me - it's beautiful for what it represents!

VP

Carey N. spun a FINE 'yarn':

A-MEN to that! a big ten-four, good buddy! HUgs, Noreen

I agree send em to me!

Donna

LOL

WONDERFUL advice Katherine,,, Since i am a slow knitter , i rather give it to those who really enjoy it , not to those who will throw it into a pile under the hanging clothes . Nore to those who nag me to make them something, i spend time to look for their requested colors etc,,, make it to their specifications and than , tear the front open ,,,,, I have a list of those whom i will never ever make anything for anymore ,,, mirjam

WOOLY ,,,,,, You are a Brave woman ,,,,, How was that accepted,,,, Years ago , we just had our first born, and i made her several cloth toys. A pregnant neighbour admired the toys, thus i made a dog for her baby when he was born . To my surprise, she said ;"don`t you have any money ? to buy a Real Toy ? " and gave it back to me. I gave it to another mother who loved it, and her little boy, played with it for years. mirjam rote:

Aha Wooly i sure wish i was as brave at the time , with my late MIL , She had some `special remarks ` as well. mirjam

Welcome Mary who is English from mirjam who lives 2 hours by bus from the city where the first Mary lived ..

Wow, The Other Kim !!! How fruitful you are , i can`t knit so quickly also i sew , embroider crochet weave Art projects , and have only the 2 hands. I am lately quite busy repairing clothes , mainly for me, thus not much time to knit for others. mirjam

AUD i order your head ache to go AWAY ,,,

Vintage Purls Don`t be nervous ,, after all , you might be surprised that she will ADORE it. You don`t know till you tried. As to your mother, if you know she pushes it into the dark corner, why bother? But i see you are like me , you give her and yourself a last test, to see if it is true ? By all means , give the trial test and than , as you wrote , dor your own sanity ,,, don`t do it anymore. When i started to make Fiberart, my late mother who was always critical about me, and also was a painter. Visited me and saw a work that i was working on, half finished, she started criticising it, and my heart sank. Before her Next visit i turned all works over and didn`t let her look at them. I told her that when her paintings are wet, she doesn`t let me look at them either... was a great step for both of us. mirjam

Hi Mary:) I didn't know you knitted:)

It's even more complicated than that.

That's what I always say. We're all 32nd cousin to the Queen :-)

In 1960 I thought I was marrying an English man and we could carry on my proud English line.

Turned out his mother was part Irish. Our no 1 child (daughter) married a Jew (although he didn't know it until I told him on his wedding day) from Russian stock on his mother's side, they now live in France. No 2 (son) married a girl called Bronwen Griffiths (you can't get any more Welsh than that). No 3 (daughter) now lives in Wales and her Welsh son will be educated at a Welsh speaking school. No 4 (son) married a Scot and No 5 (son) called his first daughter Mia Mégère.

I'm very happy with all of them :-) I've even had to rein back the traditional (and mutual) English hostility to the Fr*nch :-) I pretend our blood connection is really Norman, therefore Scandinavian! But at least they've stayed with their original spouses and haven't taxed our aging minds with second ones and step and half children :-)

By the way, we're the only English (!) family in our street in Leeds, Yorkshire, we've lived here for 43 years and are unlikely to leave except in a box..

Sorry to have drifted ...

Mary

er - the name rings a bell but it's been a difficult time. Remind me?

Mary

Mary

That must have been very hurtful. We've always tried to make things for our and others' children - at first because of poverty and later because we realised they were better.

A daughter is an excellent seamstress, when her son reached the 'age of reason' he said he didn't want a particulr item of clothing because it was 'made' instead of bought.

Now that he's 21 he's beginning to understand the value of real things

Mary

Yes Nazereth where she lived with Joseph , and Zipory where her parents lived !!!! mirjam

I've never heard of Zipory ... but you might never have heard of our local places :-)

Mary

What was her response??????????????????????