Memory lane

I made this silk arrangement from my Christmas decorations, 

I like it on my kitchen windowsill 

I have had these books for year, 

the patterns inside are from when my daughters were babies, 

loads of happy knitting memories.

 The blue jumper was my 1st item I made myself, 1 was 17 

 Knitting for tiny tears and dear old postman Pat

 My older sister gave me these old patterns, 

I am tempted to make one, the yarn is very thin.

 Yarn for Will's jumper

Having purchased the Aran yarn to make a new cardi for myself, I spent a lovely afternoon wading through my patterns, I do have a choice of designs I can use. I pulled out my knitting pattern books, I love the two above, which are filled with all my old patterns, all kept for the 70's and 80's, I also have a few bigger sized booklets. Some many patterns I have loved knitting. I found the graft for a leaping fish, I put that on the back of a jumper for my Godson, when he was about 10, he is all grown up with his own family now.
I will make a couple of striped jumpers for Will first, they are so small and will knit up quickly, plus I can add the the body length, he is a tall boy.
I am not doing much craft, other than crochet, my ripple blanket will be finished in the next couple of days, I will have yarn left over so I will make more small granny squares for a blanket, which I started back in August with the leftover sock yarn, I love the idea to be able to use all of my 4ply in this way.
It's a very cold sunny morning here, I have a couple of drawers to sort, I am working my way through my craft room, removing lots of stuff I know I won't use, today I am looking at cross stitch magazines, I have a huge drawer fill of them. Later I am taking Josh and Sam out for an hour, their mum, my eldest daughter had a operation on her knee and needs to rest.