An Open Book

Crochet or Knitting This kind of activity is  not just a hobby for me, but it is a kind of getaway activity when I need to think deeply, or need a stretching out after my daily business. At first it was not a self-initiated process, I was urged by my mother when I was just in elementary school to keep my hands busy with handicrafts, one of it was crocheting and knitting. Of course she asked us to help her doing some doilies and other crafts like cross-stitching and so on. I remembered that one day a German has ever trained me to do a simple knitting craft, her remark impressed me even until now, that according to her opinion, Asian people are fast in learning to do handicraft. I have left this activity since I entered high school and went to take my degree out of town. Later, when I married, my late mother-in-law taught me some other new crochet stitches. At first, I wanted to motivate her to keep using her skills since she stopped it after she suffered of a stroke, but by ...