I Like to Knit. Is Something Wrong with Me?
It's winter - and for some reason when winter comes I just want to grab some knitting needles or a crochet hook and make something. My mother and grandmother taught me the basics - but I don't know how to do anything fancy. But that's okay. I've had fun making scarves each winter with all the wonderful new yarn that comes out. I'm a bit unique in my generation. My mother taught me how to sew and cook and knit and iron. I had the skills to be a good housewife before I left primary school. But in my generation you couldn't be a stay-at-home mum. The expectation of two incomes has been factored into the price of everything so you can't be one even if you want to be. And so off to university I went. Many of my peers didn't get taught these skills. They say to me "Oh you can sew! You are so lucky! I wish my mum had taught me to sew! I really want to take lessons somewhere!!" I tell them they aren't missing out on anything. By