To keep my old fingers warm, I’m doing so much knitting these days. My grandson has a favourite blanket which is now well past it’s prime but he insists the four I have made since, to replace it, just don’t cut the mustard!
My daughter wanted a lacy shawl to wear over her shoulder for a winter wedding but the first version was the wrong colour and more a poncho… the second screamed Granny and the third confirmed crochet just wasn’t… so I converted it to a skirt for her niece!
And my grandson has his own signature style jerkins and jumpers but I love to knit for babies too.
Haiku Memories
Infant in pink
Nanna’s careful looping
knits memory
.
Complicated re-
call of life’s patterns
crocheted with love
.
Wanting to freeze
frame glympses, keep sakes
in dated order
.
Signposted
familial purl noted
before casting off
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2013
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