Karen's Knitting

Dear friends and family,

I wish you could see the things Ms Karen has made for friends and their new babies. She has several people at work with new babies and she has made them one of a kind baby blankets that are priceless.

She just gave a friend a baby blue baby blanket, knitted (she said) over about 4 weekends. It was gorgeous and the new mom just loved this gift. It was baby blue and Karen took great pain in making it look like one money could not buy.

I watched her imagination at work and the blanket coming together over the weeks. It started out one way, then she decided she wanted something different. It had two colors of blue, different shades of light blue intertwined making it unique in everyway. She then took one of the darker shades and went around the borders repeatedly making an outline and strengthening feature that will make it last a lifetime and something she can hand down to her children's children.

Karen gift wrapped it and gave it to the mom this last week and I ask how it was received. She said 'she saw tears in her eyes' when she opened Karen's gift of love. It was ooohed and aughed over by all her people not really believing this beautiful one of a kind baby blanket. Now what?

I am looking at her recliner now and there drapped over the back is a multicolor babyblanket commissioned by another expecting mom who does not know her baby's sex. So the new blanket is a collage of colors using yellows and greens and blues in repeated squared designs now about 2/3 made. It is like something you would see your grandmother make and takes you back years or it does me.

I am so proud of her and her love of this work. She does not call it work, but something she loves to do with her imagination running rampant in doing this. The colors are soft and vibrant if that is possible. She said last night she is about ready to put the bordor on this one, but has not decide what color to use. Yellow seems the dominate color and I would guess that would be her choice.

My casual reader, I'll fill you end when this project is completed over the next few days maybe the next two weekends and nights. News at 11:00. Jeff N.