I don’t knit gifts for other people because I want them to fawn all over me and tell me how wonderfully talented I am and this is the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen.  I knit gifts because it’s fun and I enjoy it.  Lots of my friends are having babies and baby clothes are quick and cheap(er) to knit and there are loads of amazing patterns for them.

There is definitely something lovely about knowing that a gift has been truly appreciated though.   Sometimes you never hear much more than the thank you for a gift, and that’s fine, people are busy, or maybe they didn’t actually like what you made them.  But sometimes, even if it’s a couple of years later, the recipient will say something that makes you realise that they really did love what you made.

One of my friends told me she was digging out the booties I knit her first baby so that her second baby could wear them too.  Occasionally my friends post photos of their kids wearing things I made on Facebook, just an everyday photo where they happen to be wearing them, not a ‘hey look Katherine, here’s so-and-so wearing that cardigan you made’ and that always makes me smile.  Sometimes it’s in converstion, ‘we still use those mittens you know’ or ‘that shrug is so cosy and warm at this time of year’.  And quite often it’s lamenting the fact that the recipient isn’t big enough to fit into something, or has outgrown it.  I gave a cardigan to a colleague’s new baby the other week and it was almost as if he couldn’t wait to tell me that they’d already put the baby in it.

What sort of stories do you like to hear about your knitting?

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