Knitting

Mummy and I are in a knitting club called Knit and Natter that meets at the Almanack on Thursday mornings. We could not knit before we joined and at first Mummy helped me with my scarf. Now I knit by myself and I can talk and knit at the same time like the other ladies in the group.

Nanna comes too but she calls the group "Crochet and Chat" because she does not knit. I call the group "Knit and Natter, Crochet and Chatter". Mummy has learnt to crochet but is not as fast as Nanna at all. I have a special knitting bag that I take with me and Mummy challenges me to knit a number of rows each time.

Last week there was a power cut at the Almanack and so we had to knit in the dark and I still managed to knit a row.

Mummy makes me toast and puts butter and honey on it. I have an Innocent pouch to drink or a hot milk or a strawberry milkshake. I like the milkshake because it comes with a straw and smarties on top of the cream. If Mummy has a hot chocolate I like to have her marshmallows. Nanna has a hot mint tea and lets me squash the leaves with a spoon. It goes green.

Didn't you know if I put a green smartie in water the smartie goes white and the water changes colour a little. If you put three smarties in water the water tastes funny afterwards and it takes a long time for the colour to come off them all. Didn't you know the smarties don't have to be green to go white because it works with all smarties. If you suck a smartie and don't bite it then it goes white and soft in your mouth. Mummy says the orange ones taste the best and are her favourites but pink is my best colour. If I lick a smartie and then put it on the cream on my milkshake then the colour of the cream changes and the smartie sticks to the cream. I have done these experiments and lots of others. Daddy and I are going to make a battery with coins and make a clock work with a potato or mud. I like doing experiments at home especially messy ones.

Mummy has also learned to knit and she made these hats for Daddy and me. She made Daddy's first and I kept borrowing it so she made one for me. I chose the wool for mine from Nanna's collection and made Mummy knit with 3 different colours of pink.

She made it too small at first so had to take it apart and try again. The next time it was still too small for my ears so she made me the earflaps and the big bobble on top. It is snuggly and I tie it under my chin so it doesn't blow off in the wind.
I am making a pink scarf and when the pink is used up there are other colours. I have new needles now and you can see where I started knitting without help (it has some holes in it) and then where I used my new needles because they helped me make it neaat and Mummy says it has a tight tension and is consistent. When I have finished I will photograph it and wear it.