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Mom Made Me Sweaters
Now I can wear them again
My mother loves to knit. She doesn’t do it anymore beause she has arthritis, but when she was a young girl, she learned how.
Initially when she asked her mother for the yarn and needles she would need, her mother gave her just one ball of yarn, and two sharpened reeds.
“If you like it enough to keep it up, I’ll buy you proper needles and more yarn,” she was told.
Mom accepted the challenge and quickly earned the better equipment.
In high school, she knit sweaters to sell at fundraisers for her school. She went to a Catholic girls’ school in Mumbai (at that time it was called Bombay). Hindus paid to send their daughters there because the quality of education was so good.
Mom loved her school. She found the teachers very kind and was so proud of herself for making several sweaters for her booth at the fair. She said she raised a good amount for the school.
I told her I was surprised that people liked sweaters so much in India, but then realized that they still have winters and comparatively chilly nights.
Living in Texas, I get it. Nowadays, I put on a sweater at temperatures that, when I lived in New York, felt comfortable in short sleeves. What one considers “sweater weather” is all…
