So today is
a craft day for me. Sadly, it isn’t warm enough to knit in the garden, but so I
am sitting at my desk with coffee, knit and muse about my life, about how I can combine
crafting and politics and writing, as well as laughing and dancing. Oh yes, and
recycling, too. The latter, however, worked out very nicely.
I had this
top which was beautiful - on the hanger! But not on me.
No matter how many people told me that I looked nice, it never felt like it. I
loved it, I loved the medieval-looking sleeves, I loved the purple colour, but
when I was wearing it, I kept tucking on it and twisting in it, and just felt…wrong.
I altered it. Still felt wrong. It seemed to give me a strange shape that just
wasn’t me, partly too big and partly to short. It just didn't fit. So eventually, I had to make a decision. Charity shop, or cutting it
into t-shirt yarn? The fabric and sleeves are gorgeous, but did I want to cut
it?
Then I
thought, why not use those amazing sleeves…as part of armwarmers! Right now I
am very much into combining my knitting with textile art in mittens and armwarmers, so I
decided to use the sleeves and make something for me! Luckily, I found a matching yarn in my stash –
beautiful, purple, and handspun by Rachel from lindsaycrafts. So I cut, turned the sleeves upside down, fitted, knitted and sewed, and here
is the result (one done, one more to go)!
So, now I
have something I love and love wearing, too!
If politics
were so easy…but then again, maybe it is?
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| Thowing down the gauntlet and dancing to Bellowhead! |
