Subject: Re: Spinning through Tragedy
Elaine wrote:
I was showing my Tragedy Socks to my mother at dinner last night. They'd
been stranded in New Mexico since the attack and only just got home. So I
showed her my socks and the beginning of a baby sweater, and she pulled
out
a -whole
I was showing my Tragedy Socks to my mother at dinner last night. They'd
been stranded in New Mexico since the attack and only just got home. So I
showed her my socks and the beginning of a baby sweater, and she pulled out
a -whole sweater- that she'd made while in Santa Fe!
It was knit from
Elaine wrote:
I was showing my Tragedy Socks to my mother at dinner last night. They'd
been stranded in New Mexico since the attack and only just got home. So I
showed her my socks and the beginning of a baby sweater, and she pulled
out
a -whole sweater- that she'd made while in Santa Fe!
I want it to symbolize the beauty they apparently didn't
understand.
Oh. What a great thing to do. Perhaps we could have a cyber 'show and
tell', to share what we created during a time of destruction.
wrnk
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Your mother knits?? How neat!
My Mom used to knit a lot, but now she mainly needlepoints. My grandmother
taught me to knit, and I clearly remember (at 5 years) saying OK, I can do
that - now teach me to cast on. t first she didn't want to but
relented. I was knitting away with that old
Elaine said:
We all have our skeins, socks, sweaters, and other items of handwork that we
made during those first painful days of shock following the attacks. I have
a pair of socks I'd been calling my Tragedy socks, because I'd made them at
the office while I was crying and following CNN for two
