Saturday, April 19, 2008  more nostagia - the nanna-list  After
the wonderful time spent bending knitting needles into bangles,
an activity that has been done quiet a few times in the past few
days, my Zgal wants to know what else I used to do with my
nanna.  It wasn't just my nanna that I did things with, there
was also time spent with Grandma and other elderly women who
taught me a huge range of things, from french seaming for babies
clothing to how to get pastry just right to how best to peg out
clothing.  It was all fun back then, but lessons were learnt so
I've decided to try and work out a nanna-list of activities to
do with my daughter.  I'm not going to do water colours with her
and I don't have a massive art studio complete with a wheel and
kiln, but I do have a french knitting 'thingo'. For years I've
been looking through op shops trying to find old wooden spools
with a hole in the centre big enough for french knitting. Of
course I couldn't find one with a big enough hole, but then I
realised that m