do your GC still want to wear your handknits?

Good idea, janerowena, thanks

Ha ha, handcuffs might be an idea! Must look for a pattern. Don't like knitting big things, so could carry on knitting for charity. Stops me having evening munchies.

I misread your post margaretm74 and thought you said 'handcuffs! Should have gone to S.........

My youngest granddaughter stopped wearing handknits (not cuffs) at 5 or 6, she said they were itchy.

It happens. This is the reason I only knit for myself now or if DiL or DD asked me to knit something specific for one of the GC. Wool is too expensive and our time too valuable to be wasted in this way.

Maybe if you let them choose the style and pattern, they would. It might be worth popping into somewhere like Next and seeing what sort of thing is fashionable if your GCs live in a town. Kids in the countryside aren't as fussy. They aren't as pressured by their peers to have the latest fashions. It starts at a very young age in cities. A knitted hoody would go down well with both sexes, I would have thought, but let them choose the colours.

They are 8 and 12 btw.

I think mine would so long as I could knit Star Wars or anything Scouting into a sweater. Think they would be well impressed!

Hate knitting now though. Sorry kids.