Oh wait, it’s supposed to be Sentimental Journey...like the song. If you don’t know it, you’re not old enough. It starts out, “Gonna take a sentimental journey, gonna set my heart at ease, gonna take a sentimental journey to re-new old memories” I hope your singing along.
Sometimes the yarn isn’t the special part, it’s what you do with it that makes it so. Last post I talked about the scarf I am crocheting while with my dad. It’s almost done.
This is the blanket I gave him for Christmas last year. He hasn’t always shown an interest in the projects I work on, in fact this may have been the first one. I started it during the Thanksgiving weekend. We watched football and a movie or two at our house and I worked on this project. The yarn is acrylic from Red Heart (a big yarn company for those of you who don’t yarn). There are lots of different colors to use and the pattern is interesting to work due to the changes in colors and in the stitches.
I could see him watching out of the corner of his eye so I took it closer for him to see. His comments ranged from “looks like a lot of work”, to “that will take a long time”, to “what are you going to do with it?” and variations of those three. The last became a frequent query. After the third or maybe fourth time he asked, I responded that it would be a Christmas gift.
I hadn’t really decided what to do with the blanket after it was finished but by that point it occurred to me that perhaps it would be for him. We had that particular query/response exchange many times during the weekend but never once did he ask for whom it would be a gift. I would have told him if he had. Maybe he knew that.