And she still knits!
Wow. A knitting-related post. Have you picked your jaw off the floor yet?
I thought I’d go back and write about my last finished object. I have a good reason for not writing about it right when I finished.
See the belly in that picture? I finished this puppy on June 11, 2008. The day I went into labour. For scale, you can see my iPod Mini in the right corner. I’m standing on my bed trying to get a full picture of it and you can *barely* see the left edge. (Oh. And I love that you can see my sexy support hose. Oh baby, oh baby!)
I don’t remember very many details about this project. It is a prayer shawl for my Aunt Connie, who was, at the time, undergoing some very intensive chemotherapy for breast cancer.
It’s basically a big, purple hug.
Her favourite colour was purple, so I found a beautiful purple variegated cotton yarn, a fun novelty yarn, and a nice white yarn - Rowan All Seasons Cotton. The middle piece is double knit with the purple variegated and the novelty yarn, whereas the arm portions are some sort of patterned ribbin which I can’t remember.
To be fair, this was 7 months and a lifetime ago.
I knit most of it with my feet up on the couch or sitting on my bed listening to a LibriVox recordings of Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, by L.M. Mongomery, timing Braxton-Hicks contractions that were coming every 5 - 7 minutes, and waiting for June Bug to arrive.
She was obviously waiting for me to finish this before she came.
jenny the big sister said,
January 16, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
wow that is a beautiful project kim. i think you are right about gwen waiting till you done. does aunt connie like it?
kim said,
January 16, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
She loves it! She sent me a beautiful thank you card
I was so glad to be able to give her something both extravagant AND useful!