I am very conscious that I have not done much knitting at all this year. I started a jumper in January but I have not knitted any more of it than when I last wrote a post. However today it the anniversary of me starting to write this blog - so I thought I would write something about a piece of knitting that is very important to me although I didn't knit it myself.
This is a throw - which at the time was called a patchwork quilt - that was knitted for me in the 1970s by my maternal grandmother Rebecca Wade. This is the lady who taught me to knit - I would not be writing this blog if it wasn't for her.
Until this week I had not seen this throw for about 30 years. In my memory it was blue and white. I was surprised at how many other colours are in it. It has threads hanging off it, holes, darns, curly edges and it has been very eccentrically knitted - but I still love it! My grandmother was just using up all the odd bits of yarn that she had. When I do that - I try to organize it in some way - but she hasn't - some of it is blocks of one colour - but in other sections it looks as if she has just pulled out the next colour and knitted with that.
Grandma has used crochet to make some of the shapes fit together and has done a crocheted edge. I don't remember ever seeing her crochet. My other grandma preferred crochet to knitting.
Now I have found this throw again - I think I am going to put in on my sofa so that I see it every day. I can see its imperfections but I don't care about them because Grandma knitted it for me. You can see where I got my love of knitting quilts and throws. I am currently working on one as another present for a friend. More about that next time.
