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Crochet Faster!

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My mother is here visiting! Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while may remember that my mother works for DoDEA (Department of Defense Education Activity); basically, she teaches the children of enlisted personel and other personel on military bases around the world. Currently, she is stationed in Germany. This means my parents only make it back to the States over the summer, and I only get to see them for a short amount of that time. My mom arrived here on Wednesday, and my dad will be here on Tuesday, they will both be leaving the following Sunday (the 5th).  The girls and I have been having so much fun with their Grammy, that I keep forgetting to take photos. But I did get one of Grammy reading to them.

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Then Kyla realized what was happening, and started hamming it up for the camera.

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I will try to take more photos for the rest of the visit.

In the meantime, I want to share one of my mother’s favorite stories with you. It happened my first year of undergrad. I was majoring in Costume Design at the Theater School at DePaul University in Chicago. The winter break there was from just before Thanksgiving to just after New Year. However, there was always a play that ran the first half of December. So, if you were part of that cast or crew, you lost most of your winter break. I was wardrobe crew for that show my first year. So I had tons of free time in the dorm for the couple of weeks when the show was running.

I decided a great way to pass the time would be to crochet a chevron blanket for my Godfather. The cast and crew would tease me all the time about crocheting in the dorm common room, on the bus, backstage. They called me Grandma. It was done in a good natured way, the way friends of that age make fun of each other for nearly any reason.

The theatre itself was a few miles from the University, in downtown Chicago. So there was a bus ~ the Blue Bus ~ that took us to the theatre for each show. One day we were all gathered in the parking lot, on a cold, snowy, cold, very cold, Chicago winter afternoon, waiting for the Blue Bus. The bus was late. We were cold. I took my 3/4 finished chevron blanket out of my bag and several of the cast and crew huddled underneath it for warmth. I worked on making it bigger. Before I knew it, they were all chanting “crochet faster, crochet faster” and we were all laughing.

The bus eventually showed up. I don’t remember how late it was, but we were out there, using my unfinished blanket for warmth, for quite some time. We did manage to start the show on time that evening though, and no one got frost bite.

None of them ever made fun of my crocheting again.

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