Been writing mostly during the pandemic, but my youngest sister Sylvia managed to create these during the lockdown in Sydney.

Knitting is an excellent method of creative visualization once your mind can operate on two, parallel levels: your work and your visualization, which then becomes a form of astral journeying.

It is also an excellent form of meditation once counting stitches becomes second nature to the knitter: the mind becomes no-mind, is empty of all thoughts, and leaves the work to be done all to the subconscious.

Needlework will always keep your mind sharp, pun intended.

It also calms one's nerves by means of the repetitious, compulsive, predictable-pattern movements that assure one that he is doing something constructive to prevent the passage of wasted time.

 

Angelique as Bubbles in handknitted, cotton, Powerpuff dress.

From the late 1990s through the mid-2000s I submitted 20 original handknitting designs to _The Philippine Star_. None of them were ever published, and none of them--photos, grid patterns, sketches, and instructions--were ever sent back to me,

This is a spare photo I found while cleaning out the old nursery room. Sadly I couldn't find any photos of Aubrey as Blossom (pink dress) and their compound playmate Almeth as Buttercup (green dress).

The girls were still in grade school at the time. And of course Professor Plutonium was a long way from retirement then.