This week, we’re loving the adorable knits created by Jane List, 55, from Oxford. She said…
Looping the yellow wool around the needle, I counted my stitches.
As the material grew longer, Icould see my knitted creation coming to life.
It was none other than an adorable Easter chick, although it was only October! Ihave to get ahead, I thought. Every year, my knitted creations were in high demand. ‘Shall Isew that one off for you?’ my aunt Jean, 89, asked.
Nodding, Ipassed her the finished chick before moving on to the next.
For me, knitting was afamily affair and even more so, as all the money raised went to Sobell House Hospice in Oxfordshire.
Learning to knit from my nan Louisa when I was three years old, Icontinued to knit as ahobby into later life.
She kept on knitting during her treatment
Even my mum Lily was a keen knitter –she was knitting for Sobell House Hospice long before I started in 2008.
So, it was only natural for me to follow in her footsteps.
Only in 2007, Mum fell ill with lung cancer, but she kept knitting during her treatment with me by her side.
‘If the time comes, I want to go to Sobell House,’ she told me.
And so when Mum started deteriorating in 2011, she moved to Sobell House for just 24 hours.
The Sobell House team were so kind –setting up abed for me bedside Mum, Ispent those last precious moments with her before she passed away, aged 82, in 2011.
After Mum’s passing, Iknew Iwanted to carry on Mum’s knitting legacy and give back to Sobell House.
