Shared Project: Gryffindor Scarf
Lucas and I have a shared knitting project going right now. Back before Christmas, we went to the yarn shop one day and he asked for gold and scarlet yarn to knit a Harry Potter Gryffindor House scarf for himself. (I know for a fact that Lucas makes a terrific Harry Potter.) I said no at the time, but went back later and bought him the yarn he wanted and gave it to him as a Christmas present. Then I suggested it might be fun for us to knit the scarf together, sharing the project as much or as little as he wants.
He jumped at the idea. He decided how wide it would be and what the stripes would look like: “Even, Mom. Even all the way.” We are just knitting garter stitch—nothing fancy. Although we started with 30 stitches, we now have 34. We have a couple of holes, too. None of that matters, though. What matters is that we are doing it.
So, we press onward despite mistakes and whatever.
The reason I suggested we share the project is so that he can have the experience of working on it and watching it grow. Lucas knits for a row or two and then puts it down. I knit to hopefully keep his interest in the project. I am thinking it will be rewarding and reinforcing to see the scarf coming along at a faster clip than he could do on his own. And he’ll be getting lots of practice.
We’ll file this under Experiments in Parenting, shall we?
January 10, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Awesome! Did you see pictures of my Hufflepuff halloween costume? đŸ™‚ I think the shared project is a great idea! Knitting can get so tedious, especially a project like a garter stitch scarf. With the two of you working on it, though, it should stay interesting.
January 12, 2012 at 7:11 am
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