I've been in my lab for a little over a year and just look at the number of babies! Admittedly Baby B and BabyK(2) are still very much cooking, but but Baby A and Baby G are just about done and ready to be turned out onto the cooling rack. I can't say that I knit for all the babies (some were born just after I joined the lab and other's to people I don't know since my lab is gigantic and obviously big enough to repopulate the Earth should the need arise), but Baby A and Baby G will belong to people that I work with fairly closely.
I can't say that I didn't see this coming, but have I prepared? If you stuck a pin in these people they'd pop and have I knit anything? Nope. I'm knitting lace-that-will-not-be-photographed instead. And a hat. It's a gazillion degrees outside but I'm knitting a hat.
Sit n Knit New York is have a charity drive at it's WWKIP day event (this Saturday!!), and I chose to knit a hat for Christmas At Sea. My Daddy was in the Merchant Navy way before I was even twinkle in his eye. I used to love the bed-time stories he'd tell my sister and me of "Sinbad the Sailor and his two Princesses." There's the infamous story of the shark fishing, of the world's largest attack cockroach, and of beer and 9 pence a bottle rum. But there were no stories about the loneliness or the isolation that I'm sure he must have felt. So in a way knitting a hat for the next generation of sailors is knitting a hat for my Dad all those decades ago.
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