A Knitting Family Heirloom

A family heirloom I began knitting when I was about 13 years old. At thirteen there is so much to do, yet I always found myself bored and became a pain in my mother’s neck. She was knitting the one day a scarf for the winter, and I became amazed at how these two plastic knitting needles could transform a roll of wool into so many different things like a blanket, a pull-over, a scarf or a tea-cozy. I was so intrigued that I asked my mother to show me how to knit. She did and then later she told me the story of my grandmother’s elephant tusk ivory knitting needle. There was only one left of the pair, we never knew why. This needle was so rare since they stopped using ivory to save the animals from becoming endangered. I found this ivory knitting needle many years later and it became a family heirloom passing it down to my children. I never did tell my wife all about my knitting.