February 29, 2012

Kids Knitting...

I don't remember if I'd told you, but back in January I was offered to teach the kids knitting afternoon program... it's a simple class after school so kids learn the wonderful art of knitting.

I said yes...

And Oh Boy! has it been a journey.... it has been exciting, getting to know this little girls (they are 8 and 9 years old), watching them start from zero and move their little hands with needles a little big for them and start forming stitch after stitch...
It's really nice to see how something inside them makes "click" when they finally understand the movement and then is simply natural and if they have been doing it forever.
It had amazed me completely how they don't freak out whenever the needle gets out of several stitches, they just think "if it came out of them, it should be fine if I just put the needle back though them", which is totally true, but I remember when I learned and I know it felt a lot more daunting like that, and I see the same with the older beginner knitters.
Kids have a different view and understand implicitly that loosing a stitch is natural to the process and all they need to do is to catch it back.

It had also been VERY fun sometimes watching this little women sit and knit and talk!!! oh yes, they talk! it's their social hour and it's like watching a mini version of older friends drinking coffee and catching up on the latest news...

They met at the class and they attend different schools so they chat about family and try to figure out if they have people that they both know... They were Miss A and Miss B for the first 7 weeks (and I'm not naming them alphabetically just to name them something, their names start with A and B)...
And yesterday we got our third addition... Miss C (and again, her name starts with C)... I wonder if the next one would be Miss D!!!!

So Miss B has this "EWWW!" expression when something disgusts her that now we have adopted at the shop, and it's very funny...
Miss A tends to be on the hiper active side and some days is hard for her to focus on her knitting... and for me to get through the class easily!
Miss C is quiet... but that might have to do with the fact that the other two were already "old friends"

Apparently yesterday was the last day for Miss A because it's difficult for her and her mom to have the class on Tuesdays...
But I'm sure the classes will continue to be fun...
I allowed them yesterday to sit at the couch to knit... it was a pure delight to watch them!!
Sorry, I smugged their faces... but they're all smiling!!
See you soon!
S.

2 comments:

  1. Great work, it is lovely to see young people/kids knitting and enjoying it. :)

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  2. This is so sweet!! I would have loved to have taken a class like this when I was a little girl!

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