Slippers!

At a very early age I watched my mom knit slippers as gifts. Pair, after pair, after pair. She found such absolute Joy in knitting and giving these slippers as gifts. Slippers in every color and variegated color you can think of. Slippers always found their way to us at Christmas and throughout the year as we wore holes in them. When I had my first baby (Meg - now 25) my mom knit her first pair of tiny baby slippers of the same pattern we had had as Kids and then as adults.

My mother was very creative... and she always told me on many occasions how she didn't think she was very talented. Oh Mom... how truly talented you were... you knit slippers, sweaters and socks - mind you argyle socks!! You created your own patterns that were knitted into the socks such as In mid swing golfers. I had no idea... until you were gone and found all your knitting patterns. Books and Books of them. 

My brother for gave me as a combined Christmas and Birthday present a shadow box that he had made of my mom's Slippers. In the heel of one slipper is a picture of my mom and in the other heel is a picture of my daughter Meg. In between the slippers is the slipper pattern. In the bottom of the shadow box is a knitting project that my mom was working on during her Alzheimer's. We would pull it out and work on it whenever I would visit.  I  had bought some needles and some pretty yarn and went about teaching my mom to knit. But soon the "teacher" was in awe of how those older hands remembered every knitting stitch and didn't even have to look at them as she knit. Amazing!

So now I have taken up the slipper making and gift giving. Below is the newest pair I have crafted. With some of the yarn from my mother's stash. 

Every time I take up my needles and knit, I think joyfully of my mom...

~keeping you in stitches~