Of Spells and String - Weavemaster - challenge entry 3
Several years agp I was reading the works of an educational philosopher named Charlotte Mason. She has influenced the way we parent and teach our personal children, and my own teaching as well. One of the things she recommends is that all children learn to do handcrafts. Thereās a bunch of reasons, but I decided that handcrafts were a must in our family.
I am also a big āpractice what you preachā kind of mama, so I decided I needed to learn a handcraft too. The next time we visited my mama, who is an amazing crocheter, I asked her to teach me. Never mind she had been offering to teach me since I was a childā¦ I was finally ready!
I took to it like a fish in water. I love it. It (usually) brings me joy and relaxation/. And, since I started crocheting, I found that I automatically put intention into what Iām making. I always have! Look at me being a witch and not even knowing it! Ha!
I give you āthe blanketā. I have some dear friends who have 4 children. Our kids have grown up together. They are amazing people. Juliana was writing on her Facebook that all of her kids had this zig zag patterned blanket that her mom made for them when they were littleā¦ everyone except the newest miracle baby. Grandma passed away before the newest baby was born. I decided that I was going to crochet the new baby this blanket.
Every row, I think about what her grandmother would want for this sweet babyās lifeL courage, joy, love, harmony, peace, etc. and I reflect on it while I am working that row. Hopefully, when it is finished, this sweet baby will feel like sheās wrapped up in a hug from the grandma she never knew.
This particular blanket has given me nothing but trouble while Iām working it. With the amount of mistakes I have made while working it and the amount of times i have had to redo parts of it, I could have had it finished 7 times by now. My goal was to have it finished by the end of June, but i donāt think thatās realistic anymoreā¦ so nowā¦ the middle of July. I canāt wait to give it to baby Iris. I also canāt wait to move on to another project!