DISCLAIMER:
If you are a crocheter, with exquisitely normative tastes, if you staunchly follow the social norm and your dream is to dress the table on Christmas Eve (as my paternal grandmother would have done, by the way), with the white crochet tablecloth with impeccable Irish style. If in addition to this your towels also have perfect edges where your initials can be clearly read... please I ask you, I beg you and I implore you to stop reading this post because it may considerably hurt your sensitivity.
However, if you are one of those who adds Prokofiev's ballet op.64 Romeo and Juliet to the list of migraine remedies, if you would give your dog a name that matches his personality (i.e. a medieval hero and knight) and it gives you quite a bit of pleasure to think that like Heraclitus "you will not bathe in the same river twice", then... go ahead. Sit comfortably and I'll tell you about the amazing gift they gave me this past July.
As a summer present, my wonderful mother had planned to give me a winter sweater to face the low temperatures of the Swedish winter. What I didn't know was that as always her talent and creativity would surprise me so much and so pleasantly. She has used crochet and stocking stitch. The material is 50% wool and 50% acrylic. The design as I will now show you is full of details mixing a martial and sober structure with filigree details and miniature fantasy. In addition, it has a seventies French style inspired by all that French music I used to listen to as a child. Here I share with you some of that atmosphere by the hand of the irresistible Michel Fugain...
What about the split panels in front, fretwork in the back and buttons at the collar?
But that's not all, look at the cap she made me to match. I don't know what I like more.
Her talent for poetry and for everything she sets her mind to is evident in her crochet skills. Her grandmother introduced her to crochet and knitting in her childhood, and she introduced me to the art of delving into every detail, to understanding that there is always a third option in a dilemma, and to embracing and enjoying difference, freshness, creativity, innovation... And I, by my own luck, a mischievous girl in the middle of menopause, got into crochet. Now I have something else to share with my mother and best friend.
I fell in love with the sweater from every point of view and I certainly won't be cold this winter with it.
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