Best Chrismas Gift….EVER!

Me and my mom at Christmas

T’was the Wednesday before Christmas and I was catching up on my blog reading.  I follow so many blogs that I have to set aside time to read them all.  While perusing blogs I came across this post from Kelli of True Bias about an infinity scarf she knitted for her sister.  I have been longing for an infinity scarf for ages but I can’t knit at all.  Nor have I seen one in the stores that I liked.  Sure, I can crochet but sometimes certain things look better knitted.  Whenever I come across blog posts or articles that I think may interest my mother I forward them to her since she doesn’t follow any.  My mother’s knitting is a secret skill that I have never seen her execute in my life. But she has mentioned that she can knit in the past, so I sent it anyway.

My email to my mother

When I forward emails to her sometimes she responds, sometimes not.  So I didn’t think anything of it and actually forgot about it.  So imagine my surprise when I opened my last gift at Christmas and there was a knitted infinity scarf in the box. My brother joked that this was the first time he ever saw my mother looking like a grandmother when he witnessed her knitting.  My mother is a “Glam-ma” not a grandmother.

.  Wearing the lovely scarf my mother knitted.

One of my niece’s wearing it as a snood.

I can’t believe my mother pulled this off in such short notice.  The things that parents do for their kids always amazes me.

Hopefully this has sparked a knitting fire in my mother and she will knit more.  My SIL has already requested one.  As you know, I’m making an American Girl wardrobe for my niece’s birthday and I have come across some lovely patterns for knitted sweaters.  I will be sending them her way. 

I can’t speak to how the knitting was executed but you can read and see YouTube videos here about the scarf.