learning from our mothers...

We began our work on obi belts today... hours of work left me with an "h" and an "o"... part of "home" that will eventually be spelled out.

In the quiet of the afternoon, women drank tea, knit, crocheted, embroidered and thought about home.

Today part of what we chatted about was how each of us learned to knit and crochet. We found out that women learned in schools and from the hands of their mothers and grandmothers. Some of us also learned to memorize patterns from a quick look at a book that is too expensive to purchase.