Comments on: Projects unfinished

By: Tami

Tami — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:15:02 +0000

Wow…what a story. What a legacy. The afghan is beautiful.

By: frogginette

frogginette — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:25:55 +0000

Thank you for this post, it brought tears to my eyes, made me think about my own grandma, who passed away in January. She taught me how to knit and it’s as if she is by my side every time I’m working on a project. This is truly a wonderful afghan, as well as a poignant story.

By: Trish

Trish — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:16:16 +0000

I just discovered your blog and my heart is still beating fast thinking about this post. It is so wonderful how knitting can connect people. I really encourage you to write a piece for the “Ravelings” last page of Interweave Knits. This is truly an amazing story. I’m so glad you wrote it.

I’ve been thinking about my own grandmother a lot as I used one of the brooches she left me to accessorize my first ever written pattern. I hope this honors her as much as you honored Laura Bell. Grandma was a state champion arm wrestler and a tough farm wife with six children – I don’t think she ever had time to knit but I know she would appreciate the work so much….

By: leslie

leslie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:07:45 +0000

i am so late reading this! sorry.
i love this story. just thinking about her makes me smile.

love that you finished it, too. how special.

By: lanajoh

lanajoh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:46:01 +0000

I, too, am finishing a project left behind by someone who died, a friend, who was just short of forty. She died suddenly, and she had been working for years on a grey wool cardigan that she knew would no longer fit her, but she intended to finish it for her sister anyhow. I asked for the unfinished sweater after her death. We had knit together, we had discussed the armhole shaping together… how could I not finish the remaining sleeves and sew it up for her sister?

My friend suffered from schizophrenia, and she would often have to put her knitting aside for months, as she wouldn’t be able to believe that she had knit the last few rows… she would sometimes think that her knitting had been tampered with, especially if there was a mistake in the pattern…