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About
Joy
 From
the time I was a child, I have always had a fondness
for little things. I especially remember
an old-fashioned, black tin stove with matching
pots and pans. I would
tear up very small pieces of paper, colour them
in shades of food and place them in my pots
and pans to cook up.
 When
I was about six years old, my Dad constructed a
cardboard doll house for me. That house
lasted about a year due to much wear and tear during
hours of playtime from my little hands. Then
on my eighth Christmas, I received a metal, hexagonal-shaped
doll's house with moulded plastic furniture. This
house lasted much longer, and I continued to play
with it until I was about twelve. I was
never one to easily part with a toy, any toy; especially
if it was going to be permanent.
 But,
around the age of eleven, and having watched my
Mother knit for as long as I could remember, I asked
her to teach me how. She did, and over
the coming years I improved with time. I
never really knit anything up though. Mostly swatches
and those swatches were consistent in one aspect,
colour work. I really enjoyed stranding
the yarn to form various colour designs.
 The
years continued to pass, and I continued to knit,
producing many a sweater and blanket for many, many
people. And, when I wasn't knitting,
I was making model ships. I remember
going to the hobby store, time after time, to buy
another ship, yet all the while eying the doll house
kits.
 In
1989, I married and continued to knit and continued
to make model ships ... all the while still
eying those doll house kits. Finally,
in 1998, I announced to my husband I wanted a doll's
house for my birthday. We had a house,
we had the space and we sort of had the money.
 So,
to come full circle, from the love of that little
black stove and a metal doll's house, I had also
started to knit in miniature and I truly loved it.
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