Mama's Stash
Mama, circa 2000
My husband's grandmother was a knitter. When I met her (Mama) she was no longer knitting. I hadn't started. She died in 2001 at the young age of 96. She was a wonderful, caring, giving, lovely woman. I wish I had found her stash while she was alive. The stories she could have told about her projects! Instead, last month I was given her stash. There are quite a few unfinished projects. Some with needles still attached, all without the patterns. And without the stories. How sad!!! While going through the bags and boxes, her daughter Maria told me how Mama learned to knit. She befriended a lady who was the nurse to Robert Louis Stevenson. She taught Mama to knit her very first item.....socks!!! It took me 4 years to finally venture out and attempt socks. Now I kick myself for waiting so long to knit them.
I brought all the yarn home and today I took pictures of my "inheritance".... it took eight years of asking for the stash and last month I got it. Eureka!!!
Here we go....
Purple Mohair
Parfait, 9 balls
I started unraveling this project and I'm knitting a scarf with the yarn
Who was this for? My husband?
Almost complete. Where's the pattern??
Unknown
I think I can finish these
Yarn odds & ends
If you have suggestions or comments on this post, please, please send them. I would love to hear what you think, what I should do, etc.
posted by Karen Knitting | 11:15 AM
3 Comments:
Karen, what treasures! It is a shame that you didn't get to hear the stories behind these almost done projects. Mamma was obviously very talented. That fairisle sweater is beautiful. How wonderful that you get to enjoy working with something you know she held dear.
Is it possible she didn't use patterns? We had an exchange student who would knit sweaters without a pattern, whether it was intarsia or fairisle, cardigan or pullover. I "inherited" yarn, thread and hooks, partial quilt tops and an entralac piece(no yarn to finish). I did receive some old pattern books which I treasure.
What a wonderful inheritance!
When my husband's grandmother and great aunt passed I got a grocery bag full of yarn and two crochet hooks. It's nice to be able to give each of my two daughters a hook that "your great grandmother" had owned.
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