Meantime. Tonight.
(Nah, couldn’t be.) I kept knitting. Several people in the shop had already commented on my colorway, and the woman who’d just come out of a class in the back seemed to like my shawl project. Except she kept looking at me, not just–but nah, couldn’t be.
From across the room she was going: (Nah, couldn’t be.) She was talking to Kay about learning to knit shawls. They picked one up off the back of a chair and Kay was explaining how to do its simple dropped-stitch pattern.
Then Kay mentioned my name. I didn’t hear her, but I sure saw the effect. Suddenly, this woman is bounding over towards me and I’m exclaiming, Are you KATHY?!
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Kathy reminisced over the times I would bring my spinning wheel, and how I’d spun up Cole’s samoyed’s fur. I’d made it into a hair scrunchy for his mom.
(Take a standard covered-elastic hairband. Take yarn and crochet around it until there’s no visible sign of elastic left. Work it as big and ornate or as tiny and simple as you want.)
One last thing, just because it tickled me: Richard mentioned tonight what one of his co-workers had told him today–the lady was stopped at a light and heard ducks. A little late in the season for ducklings but you never know and you have to watch out for them, you can’t run over them! Where would the water be that they’d be toddling towards…and so she was looking and looking all over. Where are the ducks! Quackquackquack.
She finally looked up. And there, perched on the wires above the intersection, were several parrots. Speaking in Duck. (Mari and Kathryn, that’s for you.)
Hey, lady, no Peking!