Glimmer #6: It’s So Green!

Happy Holiday Season

I’ve been teaching myself to knit for the past three years. Progress has been, how shall I put it?

Slow. Inconsistent and slow.

But I am getting there! I can knit hats now and that’s fun! Of course, I am not yet great at reading patterns, so I just finished a hat for my granddaughter. It said it was a toddler pattern.

Oh, hahaha! Sure it’s a toddler pattern. As long as the toddler has a head the size of an apple.

Given the fact that my most recent projects (mittens, hats, an attempted sweater) have been too hard for me to manage, I decided that I would use up some yarn scraps and knit up a few Christmas gift bags. Straight knitting, nothing tricky, a chance to rest my aging brain.

And I cast on my 100 stitches, and looked down at the yarn in my lap. It was beautifully green! It was the color of spruce trees, not Irish green or grass green or lime green. It was Christmas green.

It was glossy. The light bounced off the fibers and seemed to glow in the morning light.

And as I looked down at it, emerging from my needles in such organized patterns, I could suddenly picture the feeling of Christmas. The gorgeous smell of pine, the anticipation of the gifts, the food, the laughing adults.

The magical images from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. The feeling that I could bring up when I was ten, on any cold night. The magic and reverence of Christmas.

I sat in my rocker, my little yarn project on my lap.

It was so deep green, so soft, and so comforting.

It was my glimmer today.