Episode 113: Winter Wrap-ups

 

Episode 113: Winter Wrap-ups

Sorry for the late posting of this episode! Show notes to come.

Happy New Year!!!!

music: Dig Me Out, Sleater-Kinney; Cast a Shadow, Yo La Tengo

Comments

[Leslie]

Thanks for the great episode! I saved it for when I needed motivation for a run! :) Happy new year!

[Susan]

Having 3 (now grown daughters & 6 grandchildren) I have a suggestion on how to get your son to wear your knits. When he says he doesn't want to wear them, say "Ok, I'll give it to...." His best friend or someone he knows. Not just a stranger. If he thinks it will be given to someone else he MIGHT wear it. If he still doesn't want it, give it to someone he will see wearing it. Might help, might not.

[LoriAngela]

Another great show. You are so inspiring! I listened over a few days while nursing my own cold and thanks for the encouragement to knit happy colours (almost done a golden Moody Kerchief). I have also launched a scarf project for next year for our Christmas soup kitchen.
Thanks so much.

[Caroline]

I've listened to about half of this episode so far, and I have say - I have not found any way to get my daughter to wear things I knitted for her, even if she asked for them ahead of time. Don't make yourself crazy - just quit knitting for him and wait a few years. I think Susan's suggestion is a good one, but in my daughter's case she'd insist on keeping it but never put it on. Now she's 10 and asks for white wool socks to wear with her school uniform so I make those AND she wears them. The adorable sweaters with cats on them? not so much. Kids seem to start out almost from birth programmed to refuse to do anything we want them to as soon as they can tell we want it. If they want something and we do it because of that, as soon as we start liking it, they want to quit. It has nothing to do with the actual knitwear, I don't think, which is why searching for the right thing to knit won't work - that way lies madness.

[Margaret]

Oh, yes. Don't make yourself crazy over the kid-knits (or the man-knits, for that matter). Children are the main reason it is so satisfying to knit for babies. :-)

[knitapeace]

I have to agree with Margaret about the kid knits, just let it gooo! My daughter wore what I knit for her until she was about 10 and now that she's 13 there is NO getting her to wear anything made by mom. I knit socks for my son (10) and stuff for myself and hope when she's in her 20s she'll appreciate my work and want more of it. :)

[Trish]

Nicole's remarks made me think immediately about something that happened earlier this month on my GD's 2nd BD. I'd made her a Poppy doll (Ysolda Teague's pattern) and I hoped she would love it as much as I did making it. Instead, she looked at it and threw it to the floor. Others picked it up to admire and to get her interested in it. She simply wasn't swayed--she would snatch it away and throw it down. I'm getting over it. She is, after all, a child and not responsible for my own expectations. I have decided to knit for someone who loves my work...myself!!!