"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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> On 12/20/2011 10:31 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Robert > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> My mother made many of our clothes and preferred to present them
>>> when they were ready instead of saving them for Christmas.
>>>
>>> At least one of my sisters did the same for her children.
>>>
>> My grandmas often made us stuff for Christmas. One knitted and
>> crocheted.
>> The other one tried that and failed miserably. She made us all slippers
>> for
>> Christmas one year. Oh how I hated those knitted slippers! They were
>> rough
>> to wear and yet slippery on a wood floor. When they got dirty, my mom
>> washed them out in the bathtub and hung them to dry. We all watched in
>> horror as they stretched to monstrous proportions. My dad's were the
>> worst.
>> His grew to about 2 feet long. They never shrank back.
>>
>> That grandma did sew though and one year she made me a pretty green
>> velvet
>> dress with a white bib and a black tie around the waist.
>
> My mother and at least one sister also knitted, so rather thick sweaters
> and the like weren't in short supply. My mother also taught me how to
> knit, but I never did much with it. I don't remember seeing any
> crocheting among the family.

I never could knit. I could put the yarn on the needles but it wouldn't
look right when I took it off. I can crochet but I gave it up due to
allergies. I was fine when I worked at K Mart because I could buy fresh
yarn, sealed in the plastic. But if the yarn has been sitting around, it
picks up dust and it makes me sneeze.