But all of those efforts leave out those who have come to like my blog.
Luckily I have a little story which is best shared on my blog.
Let me take you back to 1991, the summer when my Mother in Law came to visit us for the first time; this was also the first time that she was in an airplane and the first time to travel outside the UK (she applied for her first passport at age 71). Since I did not drive then yet and I also looked after not only our three, but babysat one more child, we spent most of our time at the house in our small village Upstate NY.
My Mother in Law must have gotten a little bored and asked me for some yarn and knitting needles and before I knew it, she had knitted not one but two lovely tea cozies while sitting under our willow tree behind the house. One for me and one for a friend of mine who recently had a baby.
Those tea cozies really do the trick and keep your pot of tea hot. I always get a little nostalgic when I come across mine.
Since then I knitted one for a friend who is an expat from the UK and I felt needed a little slice of home.
This month I finished knitting one tea cozy for my future daughter in law for her bridal shower after hearing that she was quite taken by them during a trip to England last summer.
How to convey that this feels like passing on a baton, letting love and tradition flow through the generations....perhaps some pictures will do the trick and make you feel that this is not just a knitted object to keep the pot of tea hot longer, but it is bringing warmth in other ways ...
Perhaps you own or have knitted items which mean more to you than the eye can see?
For more project notes on ravelry click here:
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Strickliese/pompom-fancy-2
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| Mum’s tea cozy for me , knitted August 1991 |
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| https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Strickliese/pompom-fancy-2 |
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| The young man on the right ( my son Rich), is the same as the little boy sitting with his grandma under the willow tree 29 years ago ♥️ |