Captain's Log, Stardate 02.24.2009 I am extraordinarily proud of this. For Christmas, I wanted to knit something for my parents that would be really cool and personal, and sort of an heirloom. So I took the five family crests I had for my family (in Japanese, a family crest is called a “mon”) and graphed the designs on knitting graph paper so that I could knit intarsia panels of the mons. I knit 5 intarsia panels and 4 plain panels and then sewed them together to make an afghan. In Japan, family crests are carried by both male and female, so I used mons from both my parents' sides. Traditionally, mons are passed down from mother to daughter and from father to son, but there are sometimes cases of a son taking a mother’s mon or a husband taking his wife’s family’s mon and things like that. I know we have more than 5 family crests, but we’ve lost some of them. My mom tried to find them all several years ago, but could only find these five. The fans mon was actually...
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Like, at all. I have A TV, but we don't get any stations at our house, and we don't have cable, so we literally NEVER watch TV.
We have shelves packed with our favorite DVDs, and the kids have their videos, so I unfortunately can't say that we're a boob-tube-free family, but we at least don't have to deal with the commercials.
I crochet- at least a couple of my christmas gifts are going to be croched this year.
But if we ever meet in person, you'll have to teach me to knit, ok? :)