Sorry for the picture that 'bonnet' conger's up but that is what his mom likes to call it, and boy does Sam like it. I recently had the pleasure of sitting along side one of the national women here to teach her how to knit. Roana's first project was the standard square, turned into a dish rag, but for her second project she wanted to make a hat for her son. When she choose MAF colors I should not have been surprised as Sam loves airplanes, and rightly so. His dad is the MAF programmer here in Rumginae. This means that he is responsible for figuring out the ever changing program that the guys down this way fly each day. It also has him helping to load and unload planes as well as fuel, along with a whole host of other odd jobs. However what this means is that like our boys, sometimes Sam gets to go up and help his dad with jobs like washing the planes or just hanging out waiting for the planes to come back in the afternoon. It also means that while chatting with Sam, at some point, planes will come up as the topic of conversation.
I am not to sure how practical a knitted hat is here in the tropics, but believe it or not there are times when it starts to feel a little chilly, and it gives me the opportunity to get someone else hooked and to in turn learn something; like basket weaving. Stay tuned for how that one goes!
Mel for the Marshes
Where do you get the yarn from?
ReplyDeleteSounds exciting anyway!