Erica’s Blog

You are introverted, reserved, and quiet with a preference for solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends. You can be easily upset, even by what people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be sensitive and emotional. As a practical person you like to think in plain and simple terms. Others describe you as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others’ needs than with your own. You are reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled.

This report compares you to other women between the ages of 41 and 60 in United States. It analyses you based on each of the five broad personality domains of the Five-Factor Model (Goldberg, L R. 1999), and the six sub domains at each level.

Hmmmm….whaddayathink?

EDITED TO ADD:  OK, I guess it wasn’t much of a question.  I mostly needed confirmation for what I was thinking.  The sweater is now hanging in the coat closet, waiting for the next person (me or a guest) who gets cold and needs a little something to put on.  Thanks for confirming what I was thinking, gang… 

So here’s the deal.  This is a sweater that Nana knit many years ago.  When she came over to help out on Wednesday, she brought it and a crocheted shawl for me.  She said that if I didn’t want them, I could just give them away (she’s cleaning out her dresser, etc. in preparation for someday moving).   This was a pullover pattern, but she made it a cardigan.  See how the middle of the back is a double cable, but the front button band is the two halves of the double cable?  She cleverly hid the button loops in the cable.  LOTS of work.  The stitches are so perfect.  I can’t find a mistake anywhere.  She even managed to do the seaming beautifully (and you KNOW how I feel about seaming).

So, what ’s the question?  The question is:  Keep it or pass it on? 

Why is this even a question in my mind?  Take another look.  Look veeeeerrrrrryyyy closely.  See that yarn?  That ain’t no wool.  That ain’t no fiber that occurs naturally on any planet I’ve ever heard of.  Yupp.  1970s petrobarf.  But NANA made it.  She’s even worn it; I can tell.  I know there will come a day when knitting isn’t even an option for Nana, and this may be one of the last surviving pieces of her knitting.  Yes, I have the gorgeous Icelandic sweater she made me, but who knows if it will ever fit me again (maybe I’ll have to “reclaim” the yarn?).

Will I ever wear it?  Probably not in public, despite how gorgeous it is (OK, I’m not in love with the bobble buttons, but you can’t have everything).  Around the time she made this, she made me one which has since passed on.  I’m thinking I’ll probably hang it in the coat closet and keep it for those Hey, Erica, do you have a sweater or something?  I’m cold.  times.

What would YOU do?????

This is my knitting.  This is my knitting on drugs (plus a tad of crochet)…