Last week, I was away on a trip involving my biological roots. I left on Wednesday afternoon and spent time in town 1 to visit the place where my biological mother grew up. I did things like go by the home she grew up, find out what I could at the historical society, and spent time at the public library trying to find pictures in old high school yearbooks. I found more pictures of my bio-mom's older sister and brother, who both died tragically prior to reach adulthood, than of my bio-mom, but was really glad to find any pictures.
I stopped in town 2 on the way to town 3. In town 2, I went to the cemetery where all of my bio-mom's immediate family is buried. There is a Jewish custom of leaving a stone at a grave site. I don't know where it originates. I left both a rock that I gathered from my trip to Ely on the family marker, since the family lived in the Iron Range of Minnesota prior to moving to town 1. I also brought some tufts of grass from the family home and divided that among the individual stones.
I arrived in town 3 on Friday afternoon. The purpose was to meet my 1/2 sister on my bio-paternal side and to meet her 4 children. 1 new sister plus 3 new nieces plus 1 new nephew = 5 new relatives and I decided to knit each person a hat. It was a good trip and I enjoyed meeting everyone.
I tried to get each person's favorite colors, but not everyone provided this info. If they didn't, I just did what I wanted. This idea to knit hats occurred to me 6 weeks before the trip and it helped me process and deal with the emotions surrounding this trip.
Here are the hats. They were all knit with either Nashua's Julia, Classic Elite's Color by Kristin yarn or Classic Elite's Tapestry yarn. These are my favorite yarns. They are very similar to each other and I decided to go with yarn in my stash.
I liked how all of them turned out. I especially like this last one and am making another one in different colors for me.
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