Learning to Knit

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I had a wonderful day, during this holiday week. 


I taught my beautiful niece to knit. We had some help though from little Pippa.


To be honest, there was more giggling, talking and music than knitting but it was lots of fun.

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  1. knittynew3 January 2013 at 13:04

    I thought giggling and talking was just what knitting is about x

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