it started with an owl…
Aug 25th, 2009 by kennita
My daughter, Hazel, knows how to knit. It’s not her passion like it is mine. She has always knit for the most part with function in mind. I guess that makes her a “project knitter” rather than a an “obsessive have to be knitting for the sake of knitting” process knitter like me.
At this point she really has no interest in knitting as anything other than a medium. I must have first realized this when I watched her learn to finger knit and she turned spools of knitted tubing into magical little animals. All those years before I had tried to teach her to knit and it was obvious she didn’t take to it for the same reasons I did. She had no interest in that soothing movement of fiber moving rhythmically through her little hands…
When she later decided to learn to knit with needles it was solely with a project in mind: she needed a new bag for school.
She knit her new bags for each school year, maybe a few belts and scarves in between, but that’s pretty much it. She treats knitting as an art medium and sculpts with the yarn.
This summer she made an owl as a gift that turned into a work of art. The owl represented something pivotal for her and she is now working on a life size fruit bat. I thought I’d share some of the owl pics here.
First, the owl in progress:
and the finished owl:
WOW! He’s fabulous! What a talented girl she is!
that is beautiful work….you really do have a talented family! Is any of Hazel’s work on display at the shop? Goodness, I should share some of my art yarn with her and see what she can come up with?
I think I am coming back to life again after my trip. It really wears me out to travel to KY and make all those connections…next time I am taking a real vacation and not a working one.
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