As women we are born to make. We make beds, make our children and grandchildren behave, make dinner, make dirty laundry magically disappear, make-over ourselves, our husbands, our houses and sometimes our friends. We are makers of endless making. :-)
It seems a common thread among the makers who have entered the shop this year. We all ask ourselves what we are making that will be here when we are done making. Those things that someone will touch and remember or place up high on a shelf and admire. What thing, what part of us, as first-class makers will we be remembered by?
I've been touched by the conversations around me recently. By the visitors in the shop whose comments have equalled my thoughts. While we rush around to make dinner, make beds, and make everyone happy, what are we accomplishing that is a visible sign that all this making isn't for nothing?
I felt the need to write about it. It struck me as the heart of why I knit. Not just for the calm, zen quality that is knitting time. But, for those things that will outlast me and that hopefully will be a memory one day for those I love.
It's already 2014! What will you be making this year?
