for Lottie
Posted by Kirsty
August 15, 2008
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I know, I know – I’ve posted about baby blankets before. But my friends keep on having babies and I keep on being disproportionately impressed by my ability to make squares and link them together. Go me. If we carry on like this, I reckon Joelle and I will having the making of a book – Rectangular Coverings for Tiny New People. This offering (maybe we’ll call it Raspberry Roulade) was for Lottie, an August baby who probably doesn’t need woollen blankets, but I hope that she likes it anyway. It was a good thing when I finished it and handed it over to mummy Katy, as each time I picked up the yarn I just wanted to eat it. As some of you may know, I run screaming from rooms if anyone puts wool or yarn near their mouth, so this made me very nervous. In fact, I have to stop thinking about it now.
4 comments Categories: craft
August 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I was chatting to a colleague in my department yesterday who’s a new parent and who was bemoaning how the sprog-producing industry is just designed to make parents feel eternally guilty about being bad parents. Thus I suggest you do write Rectangular Coverings for Tiny New People but as a satirical take on baby books, including such useful advice as “don’t worry, they tend to bounce until about the age of fifteen”….
August 17th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I’m totally with you on that one, Peter. Society has decided that women not only can have it all, but must absolutely have it all and if they’re not perfect at every aspect then they’ve failed. Those canny retailers have latched onto this and present consumerism as the solution – buy your baby £35 socks from some terrifying Marylebone High Street boutique and appease the guilt of coming home late yet again because you’re trying for a promotion, training for a triathlon, and must pick up that organic steak from the butcher for hubby. And I don’t by any stretch believe that all the pressure is on women – I’m sure you menly folk are being presented with equivalent conundrums.
Maybe Rectangular Coverings is the answer.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Rectangular coverings are exactly what ‘kids today’ need. We all had crocheted square blankets in my family, whenever there was a mishap or wrongdoing, Nan would put the kettle on and dash off a couple of squares in left over colours. In fact she only ever used left over colours, I never saw the things they were left over from but it yielded some interesting combinations, I am sitting on a fetching bright red, grey, yellow and baby blue blanket as we speak. Nice.
You people are the reason my house is messy with bits of yarn, disembodied buttons and shoeless dollies.
Love the work.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hi Lolly – thanks for stopping by! Your nan sounds ace and I love the thought of that multi-coloured blanket; it seems very comforting.