knitting is a hereditary disease

Moms, this one's for you.

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Barb | Comments (0)
Filed under : Knitting

I've been working on a simple cotton shopping bag. I worked on it during our Tuesday evening sit 'n knit group. Andrea worked on her project. Other people worked on their projects.

Everything was going along nicely except that Andrea decided she really didn’t like the way her project was shaping up. I did the mom dissertation about how it was much better to just bite the bullet and rip it out. “It’s great yarn; you’ll be so glad you did … blah, blah, blah.” Can’t you just hear it?

I no more than got it out of my mouth than I commented, just offhandedly, that my pattern had something funky going on with it.

Andrea said, "Here, let me take a look at it … mom, you’re reading it wrong.” (She was right.)

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Then I made the fatal error and said: “Well, it probably won’t be too noticeable and I can make some adjustments … blah, blah, blah.”

Quick as a heartbeat, the 14-year-old sitting next to me, not even my own child, murmured in a quietly mocking tone, “... it’s great yarn; you’ll be so glad you did ….”

Moms, those pearls of wisdom you dispense will come back to haunt you. If it's not your own kid, it'll be someone else's!

I had it coming, I don't deny it. So I ripped ... and of course I’m glad I did.