Day 2 of Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2012. 3KCBWDAY2 The theme for today is photography. Since I'm not such a creative photographer, I decided to look in an old photo album for some knitting-related photos.
Here's a lovely photo I found of Miss Lily Pearl and Miss Ophelia Rose having tea and knitting. It's a bit hard to see in the photo, but Miss Lily Pearl is just weaving in the ends of a pair of mittens. The finished one is on the table. I remember those mittens. They were light blue with white and dark blue designs. My mom was very strict with me any time she let me wear them and made sure I knew I was NOT to lose them. I don't think I ever did. I wonder what happened to them.
I used to love it when these two ladies came to visit Grandma. Miss Ophelia had the fanciest hats and jewelry. I was a little in awe of her, but Miss Lily was so kind. I was too young to learn to knit from them. My grandmother taught me years later, but Miss Lily would let me play with some of the things she had in her basket--balls of yarn or buttons. I so wanted to be big enough to knit with them.
And here's one my dad took in the 60's of an old woman we saw in Provence. She's working on a sock on dpns. She didn't speak any English and our French was pretty weak then, so we didn't learn anything about her. I was just learning to knit on dpns myself, so I was fascinated to see her doing it. She barely looked down at her needles. I was impressed.
[note: The dolls in the top photo are by doll artist Joan Rydberg of St. Cloud, Minnesota. As far as I know she doesn't have a website, but I have an address and phone number for her. I added the knitting and took the photo for this post. The doll in the lower photo was a gift to my mother from friends in France. She has been added to my collection and I treasure her. I did nothing to alter her.]
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