Alternative theories: Sister Monica Joan, suffering from dementia, puts some knitting needles in an already constructed granny square and pretends to knit, providing more evidence to support the decision not to let her answer the phone. Or, the other women in the convent are actually "gas-lighting" her, making her think she is going insane, by knitting a primitive garter stitch in an entirely different color scheme and holding it in the vicinity of finished granny squares that could not possibly have been produced in that fashion. Trixie is particularly audacious about this when she holds up her dull looking uni-color garter stitch next to a couple of brightly colored granny squares as though they were reasonably part of the same endeavor, even though they were more suited to "which one of these is not like the others?" Are they trying to get Sister Monica Joan to panic about her mental state and ask for a transfer to a nursing home facility? She is taking up a lot of their time as they dive for the phone and think up make-work projects for her. I would have given them the benefit of the doubt, ie. Sister Monica Joan demented, and Trixie and Jenny knitting some alternative block or filling area, except that in the end they join the blocks with a needle and give it to Chummy, and there is absolutely no knitting in the finished product. I guess the props department had obtained the granny squares somewhere and they had to use them. They probably sent an intern out to a flea market. Devon PS. Larkrise to Candelford is airing here and the Queenie making lace scene was on last week. I note that the episodes are now available in the US, on the internet through some Idaho Public television station.
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