I love the smell of cedar. I already have in my possession one cedar chest (full of yarn) that is not mine. This week my grandmother sent me, via my cousin, another cedar chest that is all mine. This chest is very special for two very big reasons.
- Grandpa made it for Grandma.
- Grandma gave it to me.
My grandfather made quite a bit of furniture, everyone in my family has something (currently I have a desk, dresser, and 2 cedar chests.) I am very excited about having a cedar chest of my own to keep, I love it.
Whatever will I put inside.
Grandma’s note inside, which I liked:
I have also managed to purchase something not nearly as exciting but fun for me at least. They are flat, colored pens (I will disregard their intended use.)
They work as book marks and I will use them for keeping track of stuff in my knitting notebook. I often have a pen as a bookmark but these will be even nicer because they are flat. My knitting journal is just a lab notebook with lots of scribbling in it but I cherish it anyway. I strongly urge all knitters to keep one, because then you will have a record of what you did and when (if you can read it, I find my writing is terrible when I am jotting down notes while knitting.)
This is the only knitting I have done lately.
Beautiful, right? Well maybe not, but it is my first knitting with the yarn held in my left hand. It was a bit of a struggle to accomplish, but there it is. I am very very slow and uncoordinated while using my left hand for the yarn. I find myself using all my fingers to try and manipulate the stitches. Also, I tend to purl backwards and need to untwist my stitches while knitting on the right side (I think this may be combo knitting??) I find it very difficult to knit the first stitch in the row, but with more practice it will hopefully become less difficult. We shall see.
I am SO jealous of your family! How sweet of your Grandma! =) And the chest kicks some serious butt!
And oh…. is your nick Dee Dee? Can we all start calling you that? =)
Ohhhh, I want a cedar chest so BADLY. My cousin Phil is a wonderful woodworker. One day when I have space and $$ I’ll commission one from him to hold my hand knits.
I do LH knitting for practice sometimes. Like when I have a papercut on my RH middle finger and it hurts to knit LOL!
Lisa – Dee Dee is in fact a family nickname that I have disliked since I was about 6-7. Unfortunately almost everyone on my mother’s side of the family calls me that. My brother almost exclusively calls me that too. I also hate Dee, but spent almost all of my time in college being called that. So far the last 5 yrs I have thankfully gotten most everyone to call me Dee Anna.
Susan – I love cedar chests, I am currently storing my brothers and hoping that he never remembers it is here. LH knitting is still really challenging but I am practicing. It is hard not to fall back on my RH because the knitting looks so much better. I am thinking of embarking on a LH only project.
Well, for the record, I only call you Dee in emails and comments, mainly because it’s a LIL’ bit faster. I will refrain from doing so now on. I HATE being called Lori, as THAT IS NOT MY NAME. So I will respect your wishes.
Yes…I want a cedar chest tooooooooo. Those are awesome and nice and moth repellent. I also really like the pens. May have to get some of those.
LH knitting???? The HORROR! Ok, if you’re practicing LH, I will try to practice RH. See you at 1:40 today when I’m picking you up to go knitting!!!!
Dee in type is fine, lots of people do it, I know it is shorter.
Drool, cedar! Mmm…
I, too, hate my family nickname. It makes me want to stab people and things. But I do like that bit of leftie knitting. Impressive.
I wanna know what that nickname is.