Life's a Stitch

I was discussing with my children the value of the parental advice they have been given over the years. I asked them what pearls of wisdom have stuck with them. My father always said "buy for quality rather than quantity," and these words have helped make certain important decisions easier. My daughter told me the most useful message passed on to her from her wise parents was "timing is everything." I initiated the conversation because I wanted to teach them one of my mother’s quotes: "Think before you speak." I was at a recent meeting where someone didn’t do that and suffered a fair bit of embarrassment.

I should have taken my mother’s advice today. A group of us were talking at work about things we have done in life that weren’t exactly ordinary. One of our agency volunteer told us when she was 19 she took flight training because she just knew she looked so good in her white leather flight jacket. Another said she took a knitting course which was out of character for her and beyond her abilities. I told the story how I took a stained glass course and married the teacher. We went on to talk about my daughter who would like us to pay for a glass blowing course as a graduation gift form college.  I said to them I told her unlike her mom who took the class and took the teacher she was allowed to blow the glass but not ______(there was a pause while I tried to fill in the words acceptably) marry, yes, marry the teacher."During my pause everyone else had filled in the blank on their own. You might have had to have been there. We were giggling like third grade girls imagining my mommy advice to her to blow the glass and not the teacher.

Onto knitting, I haven’t been working on my autumn silk cardigan, having been seduced by the new additions to my stash. I took a picture of my Manos scarf progress but when I placed it in my post it was out of focus. Now my batteries are low, so, here’s the start of my Iceland scarf. The yarn is soft, light, fluffy and warm. Back on Friday.