...a new addition...

...meet Wally. Wally stopped by our table during our Wednesday Knit Night and had some questions about knitting. It seems that Wally's wife passed away this past year and she was some kind of knitter. She would knit "toe covers" for patients at our local hospital who leave with a cast on their leg. She was in the middle of one when she died. Wally found her knitting and thought "I can do that". He taught himself to knit and finished the toe cover she had been working on.

Not only that, he went on to knit several more himself. During this time he found that he really liked knitting! No surprise there.







But Wally's real mission is to carry on the tradition his wife started years ago. It seems that she knitted Christmas stockings for each of their children. When the children married she would knit a stocking for their new spouse. And when babies were born, stockings for the new grandchildren. As you might have guessed she had knit many, many stockings. I believe that Wally said that he has 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren, all with stockings made by his wife, their grandmother.


Well, his newest great-granddaughter is to be born this year and according to Wally, "No great-granddaughter of mine is going to be without a Christmas stocking." He has the original pattern that his wife has used for these many years (complete with her notes, handwritten in the margin)and he is determined to knit this new addition her own stocking. I have no doubt that he will be successful at this.
What a blessing this man is to his family. How lucky will this great-granddaughter be to receive this stocking and what a beautiful tribute to Wally's wife.

Needless to say, Wally had become a charter member of our Wednesday Knit Night. We are lucky to have him.