Well, it’s time to show off a ColorJoy Stole that Esther made. Esther is in my life in many ways. She’s a friend of my Mom, she was a computer student of mine at Foster Center, and then a knitting student at Threadbear. Just look at her! Didn’t she pick the perfect color scheme for herself? She just glows.

In other news, I’m teaching knitting to a young woman, in private lessons. She started with me in January, the lessons an inspired gift from her mom who also knits. Mom thought she’d enjoy it. Mom was right.

My student is taking to knitting very well. I inadvertently gave her permission to make things up on the needles (while talking about how I was creating something, if I remember right), and a week later she had a headband finished. It didn’t take much permission to get her going, even though she is a very new knitter.

And now, she has recently started a knitting blog called Officially a Knitter. Go grrl!

Right now she’s discussing her two current projects, a diagonal-knit blanket for herself (on the order of a dishcloth but in variegated sweater yarn) and a pair of wristwarmers/handwarmers (my basic design, the garter-stitch ones, in Lamb’s Pride Worsted weight). I think the wristwarmers sound like they are nearly done, she probably will be wearing them shortly! And it’s a good thing, because her hands are often colder than mine, and that’s saying something!!! She is also planning at least one more project that I’m aware of, so she surely is one of us! Anyone with multiple projects going so they don’t need to wait for the teacher, is a real knitter indeed.

I also got an email today from one of my friends at the Bloomiefest. She bought my Handwarmer/Wristwarmer pattern and has already jumped in and started a pair. I am eager to see what they will look like, as she told me she has a plan for blending a whole bunch of oddments of leftover but related yarns in her warmers. I bet they will be great!

Happy me. I love it when I can inspire others to do wonderful work. They do the work… yet I get to be the fan club, the cheerleader, and if I’m lucky, the muse. It makes me very happy.