Forrest knew he wanted to learn to knit as soon as he entered the store. “I’d like to knit a sweater!” he said to me. I said it sounded pretty ambitious, but anything is possible. His grandmother Carole had come to buy some Artfibers yarns to make items to sell. I could see that she had passed her ‘focus’ gene down to ‘almost seven’ year old Forrest when we sat down for his first lesson.

His first knitwear design was actually a scarf in 3 beautifully chosen colors of Satori and Kyoto yarn. I showed him the cast on technique and he said “is it like tying my shoes – because I haven’t learned that yet.” I cast on about 16 stitches slowly so he could see that process, then showed him each subtle step to making a knit stitch. I gave him the needles and guided him a little on the first few stitches of his own.