A very early work, possibly 1997
Freedom dress, made of stash mercerized cotton thread for my eldest granddaughter Angelique who was in grade school at the time.
She is now 28 and is a practicing lawyer.
Go GREEN. Read from THE SCREEN. |
Would have finished _The Golden Fleece_ last night, but felt drowsy and had to set it aside to sleep (the objective of my reading in bed).
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.
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.