The happiest day of my life

I have been waiting for this day for a long time.
Dreaming of it.
I thought it would have happened long ago...
When my beautiful daughter Maiya was about 5 years old, she was watching me knit, and asked if she could try it. I of course said, sure, you can try. I showed her how to do it, and she took the needles out of my hands, and knitted. That was so easy! She picked it right up! This is going to be so great!

After about 15 minutes she got bored and didn't want to do it anymore.

A few years later, she wanted to knit a mermaid out of a book of toys I had bought called "Knit a Square, Make a Toy." She got this far...



And come to think of it, I think I have written about that on this blog already, lol.

About a year ago, I went and taught crochet at her school, and she picked that right up, and we bought yarn, and she started making a wrist warmer, and things were going really well with that, and then she lost interest.

But the other day she suddenly got interested in the Kyuuto book again, and we sat down to crochet bears together. Her first try at the bears head didn't come out quite right, so we turned it into a hat for the dog.





Also, she thought the bear was going to turn out to be bigger than she wanted it to be, so I promised her a trip to Michael's to buy her own yarn and the same hook that they used in the Kyuuto book.



After we got home, we sat downstairs and watched movies, ate, and crocheted for hours and hours. Her yarn and needle are really small and her work is very tight. She got the hang of it right away and she's very fast. Concepts require very little explaining, I just show her once or twice how to do something and she has it. She had a couple stumbles on the decreases, and her first attempt at a head with the new yarn and hook came out looking a little more like the body than a head, but she started over and the head came out great.

While she was doing that, I unravelled the first head she had made and did this:


Oh, my now I'm hooked on amigurumi. I want to go shopping for eyes for it, but we're snowed in. I might end up buying some off Etsy, the fancy, handpainted kind. Sheesh. I have problems.

When Maiya finished the second head, I said, ok, now it's time to start the body...
She said, "I can't crochet anymore! Can you finish it for me??"
Oh, those fatal words...