Mum was an amazing knitter.  She’s made countless thing over the years and I never once heard her say a pattern looked too hard.  She made matching cable knit dresses for me and my sisters only a few years ago and ran them up in no time.

Since her stroke, following instructions is tricky and numbers mostly elude her.  She has tried a couple of jumpers and there were many, many tears before they were handed over to others to finish.  Finally we persuaded her that we all NEDDED scarves.  So we all got scarves.  And then she found a pattern for a hat and thought she’d do that….argh….no!  So I made her a paper template and told her to make a square of knitting as bit as the square and we’d make hats that way.

Don’t get me wrong – there have still been sulks and tears, but, well, after Tesco, and a bit of Abba while we made a chicken curry for Mum and Dad’s dinner tonight, we sat down and finished the final two of the four she decided to do.

And now Mum and I have matching hats! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

And I’ve told her we have to both wear them whenever we go out together, even when it’s the summer.  I think I made her a bit nervous.  But it made me smile.  And I think it made Mum smile too 🙂