Tuesday morning Mrs. Megroot walks in wearing a hand knitted navy sweater with a lime green spaceship on it. She carries a huge Hobby Lobby bag filled with at least twenty different colors of yarn. Setting the overflowing bag on her desk, Mrs. Megroot begins right away.

“I’m going the pair you up with a partner, and you are to help each other learn to finger knit. Okay, so here are the partners: Casey and Andrew, Donna and Mike, Amber and Jason, Osveen and Emma…”

Great. I’m paired with Osveen. What a GREAT match! (Can you sense the sarcasm?) He’ll probably just sit there twirling his basketball all hour, making me do all the work.

We meet with our partners and Mrs. Megroot passes out balls of yarn and an instruction sheet to each partnership.

Here we go…