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MIGHTY MOUSE

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Every Saturday, as soon as A Stitch In Time opened its doors, my mother was first in line …. and she’d drag me along.

Mother would spend hours going through the new fabric; the store, with its profusion of colors, designs and matching thread, was her fantasy land.

Then Kelly’s Knitting Korner opened next door and mother would lose all sense of time surrounded by cotton candy skeins of wool.

I hated being there. Bored, I’d spin the display racks, play pirate with the knitting needles and wish I was home watching Mighty Mouse.

I never did learn how to knit.

NAR © 2023
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6 October 2023
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60 thoughts on “MIGHTY MOUSE”

  1. I would have loved to have spent time in the haberdashery. Fortunately, I did learn to knit!
    I’m so sorry for the lateness of this reply, I didn’t spot it until today. 🙂

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    1. It’s always great when we have an outlet we enjoy. Thank goodness I have music and writing bc I can’t knit or sew my way out of a paper bag!
      No need to apologize at all; I don’t stand on protocol and have done the same thing myself. No worries, Sue!

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  4. I would be bored too. I would rather spend hours in a bookstore because I love reading. Not everyone is cut out to be a seamstress or to follow in their parents’ footsteps. As you said, Nancy, we all have our talents.

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  7. Mighty Mouse – I loved that show when I was a kid. That and Underdog. At least you put your imagination to good use, I would just wander off and get lost. My mom never went anywhere near as interesting as a knitting store; the bank, the supermarket, the department store, church and work. Lovely story.

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  8. And, please tell me, can anything surpass that stare over the glasses as she masterfully kept on knitting/sewing ?
    Parents and their ‘dream child” – see now, what you call as a disappointment for your ma, enabled you nurture creative freedom for your own.

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    1. Ah, the disapproving maternal stare … how could I ever forget the fear running up and down my spine?! Yet, I always pushed the envelope as far as it would go.
      I believe my mother was often proud of me; hearing her say so would have been wondrous.
      Grazie infinite, caro. ❤︎

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      1. I have Italian parents and if your mom was around the same age as mine – it wasn’t really a thing to tell your kids how proud you were. They could always be better, keep them humble, and don’t brag as malocchio is a real superstition!

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    1. Well, you haven’t shopped with my husband, Margaret.
      I’m the one being pulled to the store, then left sitting outside the changing room messaging my friends on WhatsApp while he tries on one pair of pants after the other.
      It’s called “a drag” for a very good reason! 😂

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  10. Made me smile, from title to end. 🙏🏻 With a talented seamstress mom and aunt (like a mom) I can relate. Despite my early lack of interest, I did start sewing in my 20s and love it, although I haven’t since my sewing machine broke. 🙃 My grandma taught me simple knitting, but I did not pursue that.

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    1. Oh, I can definitely relate to your comments! My mother tried to teach me how to sew; I had neither the ability nor the desire. For someone like my mother who used her sewing machine every day of her life, I’m sure this was a major disappointment. Well, we all have our talents! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Michele! 🧵 🪡

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      1. Yes we do and you are welcome! My mom and daughter are badasses when it comes to anything mechanical or crafty. I am sure between the two of them they could build an entire house and decorate it! I prefer to get crafty with words. Maybe sew a few skirts from time to time. 😁

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  13. My mom was that kind of shopper. Fabric warehouse stores were her happy place. I hated having to go shopping with her when I was small, but I’d give a lot to spend some shopping time with her now 🙂

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  15. Nicely done N.
    I learned how to crochet and do it off and on as the spirit moves, but I realized that what I really loved was buying the yarn and looking at it, not actually turning it in to anything.
    Daughter loves to knit and she is teaching me. I don’t care for it much, but I humored her with a headband…I’d rather just keep the balls of yarn in their little basket.

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        1. Yeah, I’ve got one of those butter cookie tins, too. My mother had dozens of them and I remember being so disappointed that they were filled with sewing notions and not cookies. How the hell I fell for that trick every time is beyond me. What a dummy!

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  18. HAHAHAHA! Yes. A million times over, yes.yes.yes. Although I played Robin Hood, and sat under the display racks and watched people. I occasionally shot arrows at the ones I took a disliking to.

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    1. You can’t make this stuff up, sis!
      Yes, I can remember hiding behind the racks of reams and skeins, swinging my sword like Black Beard, coming very close to jabbing the fat calves of lady shoppers!
      Oh, what fun we would have had together!

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