I almost ended up as an old spinster…
I hit 25, and Grandma believed the chances of a man wanting to marry me at that ripe old age were pretty slim. While Grandma knitted and crocheted baby blanket after baby blanket for arriving new Great Grandchildren, she couldn’t stop worrying about poor old Susie, who probably wasn’t going to have any children to take care of her in her old age.
In hopes of maybe jump-starting the nuptials, Grandma went ahead and started knitting me a baby blanket, with the hopes, that maybe, by the time she was finished, a wedding invitation would be laying in her mailbox.
Grandma took her time crocheting that baby blanket. She used what was called the “broomstick stitch” popular in the ’80s. She would put the project down in honor of another new baby that had arrived, (Grandma had 7 children… and lots and lots of Great Grandchildren) so that could begin crocheting a new one for the newest baby. Then, she picked mine back up again… still no possible suitor in sight.
Poor Grandma didn’t understand the fun I was having, jumping out of airplanes. Still, the day came, when Grandma had no choice but to make that final stitch in the blanket, still knowing that there was not going to be a wedding in Susie’s future.
The next time I visited her, she pulled out my finished blanket in gender neutral yellows, teals and a touch of blue, draped it around my shoulders, and said, “Here. I know you’ll probably never get married, so you can use this baby blanket I knitted for you to keep yourself warm on those long, cold, lonely nights.”
I thanked her for the gift. I’m sorry to report, that although Grandma did come to my wedding a few years later, she never did get to see me as a mother to her four Great Grandsons.
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