In my family, it was always the grandmother who passed on her skills. Consequently it ran in generations. My great grandmother knitted but couldn't sew a straight seam to save her life. Her daughter, my grandmother, could sew but not knit. My mother was one of those infuriating women who could knit all day and every day, without a pattern and apparently whilst watching endless mindless programmes on TV. I can sew almost anything wearable, but knitting is restricted to small squares, frequent referal to the pattern (even for stocking stitch!) and more foul language than my forebears (well, three of them, anyway) ever knew!

I'm trying to teach Bratling to do both. Her control skills are there, but she has the concentration of a vacant butterfly. Consequently, she has a dolls scarf that is sort of zig zaggy and has taken 8 months to get to 8 inches.

LTS