Buttonhole

I'm learning this all over again: knitting.

My mother taught me, at ten? eleven?, the over-the-left-hand carry of the yarn for which I've been forever grateful: economy and grace of movement.

To make a wound in your knitting you need to know the yo (the yarn over). The reason for such a wound might well be the buttonhole. A place, a possibility for something else to appear later.

And so: I learned the yo again after forty years just today, making this sweater. Bring the yarn between the needles. Pass it behind. Knit = one new stitch. And a space ready for something else to come.

If only, if only writing and speaking what I meant were so simple.

Dawn