Tuesday one of my very favorite customers came to the store with some terrible news. She’s been fighting a battle with cancer for a long, long time and it seems the cancer has won. With very limited time she is preparing for the end of her life.

“God, I just want to knit.” She told me. “I mean God I just want to knit.” And then she said something to me that I will remember for the rest of my life. “You have been such an unexpected blessing to me. I don’t even have words to describe, but you’ve been such an unexpected blessing.”

I can’t even begin to grasp the loss that so many of us will be experiencing, but until then, I have one recurring thought:

Can the simple act of knitting be a gift from God? I think maybe so.

1. Yell at your husband.

2. When he yells back, cry. Then, when your 3 year old son asks if the reason daddy was yelling and you were crying was because you broke something, laugh.

3. Start taking Sam e and B vitamins.

4. Drink coffee, lots of it – Grande Decaf Americanos are good.

5. Knit.

More to come…

I think that in the course of his 3 year life, he has not been able to eat anything without making a mess. Anything.

She wore it yesterday and I forgot to take a picture. Of course it’s not nearly as cute lying on the table, but…

I’m really happy with how it turned out. I used two colors of GGH Samoa and threw in a couple rows of GGH Esprit.

The pattern is from Knitting Pure and Simple. The thing I really like about the Knitting Pure and Simple patterns is that once you make one of them, you can make any of them – it’s top down, seamless and quick!

I made Eden the size 2-4 and I wish I would have made the 24 months – they’re sized that big! But she’ll be wearing this sweater until she’s 10, I can just add to the length.

Next up I’m going to make one for Honor. I’ll substitute ribbing for the roll edges and I think I’m going to make it lime green and brown… but he’s really asking for blue so maybe blue and brown. We’ll see who wins.