Teaching My Daughter

My oldest daughter is learning how to knit. She is good too. We were standing in a yarn shop the other day when she spun around in her excited teenage way and announced she wanted to knit EVERYTHING in the world. Yarn, needles, patterns, knitting magazines are now her delight. Below is a post she wrote on her blog, I guess no one can say it better than her!


This week I have truly realized that a "break" is just about the raddest invention to have ever been implemented in the educational system.
I have departed from my previous 10 years of homeschool idealism to now understand to the full extent just how wonderful a nice break can be. (I used to abhor breaks... what else was I to do all day but tend to my books?)

I have also entered into a new relationship. It's very "on again, off again" at the moment but I am starting to see sparks of a real potential, the life long kind. Now, there are still many things we have to work out, a lot of issues to work out, one of them being a slight language barrier (to my encouragement we speak at least some kind of form of English.) but as far as I'm concerned I'm very much committed to making this work.
It's safe to say that I am in love.This, my friends, is my new passion.

I <3 you knitting.

One day I strive to be at the skill level represented in that picture, with my glowing hands raised upwards to the sky while standing in the middle of a bamboo forest admiring what I, Meg, have created with my two... glowing hands!
I want not just to knit socks, but also steering wheel covers and tissue box warmers, the kinds of things people actually use!
I shall create a legacy that will last beyond measures of time as I knit bullet proof vests for those who fight for our freedom and as the needles clack together to span the gaps between nations and forge a new peace that only the warm comfort of wool and steel (not steel wool mind you, that's very abrasive) can provide and clothe millions (or at the very least a gerbil) all in the name of knitting! It shall be done!

Well... at least if I never succeed in all that, I will have gained a nice hat and funky leg warmers.


She is amazing at how quick she is picking up this great form of art! I am very proud of her....