Mother and Daughter

I have always involved my mum with my work  right back since I was at GCSE level, staying up all night trying to finish art course work for 8:30 am hand ins the following morning. She would stay up with me all night making me coffee to keep me awake, she would cut images out I had printed ready for me to mount them all. Then again through 2 years of sixth form and another year of college.

Now im older and don't live at home she still loves to ring me with ideas, inspiration and new techniques she thinks I might like. She is so helpful. My mum suffers from cerebellar degeneration which means she is disabled, she struggles to get out on her own and though this be the case she doesn't let that stop her.

My mum has recently taken up knitting again along with me, she enjoys me taking my products to show her and decided to try herself, after many years of no practise and in her own words "her hands not working properly anymore" she has bought many shapes and sizes of looms from Ebay (another new for my Mum! The new found tech geek) and has also passed a couple onto me.

Bless her my Mum is now whipping pieces out faster than me, she has made hats, legwarmers and lots more. I like it because we exchange skills and try and solve each others problems where we can. For instance the other day I made some coasters using a circular knitting loom, I struggle to use circular needles and thanks to my Mum I thought the loom may be easier. It was my first time making a coaster and I was just practising however my Mum loved them as I had used recycled floral fabric as my yarn, Mum has only been making tubular items and she asked me how I had created a flat object from the circular loom. I then needed her help casting off with a chain edge rather than a pulled drawstring finish like the top of a hat.

Just a nice tribute to my mummy and any other mums and daughters that enjoy crafting together :) I will post pics of my coasters later.

This post was created on my new Android blogger app! It took a hell of a long time to write up! Not like a normal laptop and keyboard =/ think my mums more technologically advanced than me nowadays!

Peace! :)

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