...this is more than just an assemblage of multi-colored yarns...it has travelled with me for over twenty five years...always on the foot of my bed when the weather grows cold, even on the road with the band, it has covered more miles than most humans...
...this afghan has connections to both of my grandmothers...when my paternal grandmother died, i went with my father to help pack up two lifetimes of stuff...my grandfather had passed several years before, so it was left to us to close up the house...in Grandma's sewing room was a tailor's and seamstress' treasure trove...boxes and coffee cans loaded with buttons of a thousand different hues, shapes and sizes...a rack with hundreds of spools of thread arrayed in a rainbow from black all the way to white...bolt after bolt of cloth, cotton, courderoy, satin, silk, polyester, and numerous bags stuffed with balls of yarn...
...my maternal grandmother, Grammy, was given all of these balls of yarn and set to crocheting and knitting them into afghans and such...
...there is love and magic in every stitch...
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Oh my, so very precious.....
sigh.....
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...indeed...
...a bittersweet anecdote about Grammy's afghan...when i was moving my things out after breaking up with my second wife (yes, there were two) i grabbed the afghan from it's spot on the back of the sofa and as i was folding it to put into a box, my wifey says to me, "Awww...you're not gonna take that are you?...it used to keep me warm."...to which i replied, "Yeah...and so did i."
...speechless, she was...
:) great come back lol..... but sometimes ya just cant keep cold hearted people warm, be it with afghans, snuggles or hot water bottles.... ya gotta have a little bit of inner warmth....
Glad you didnt let ya 2nd wifey nick ya ghan....
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Wanna take your afghan and go sit on the beach with me somewhere, wrapped up against the cold with a steaming mug of tea and some shortbread biscuits??? aye aye??
thats what I fancy doing today.....sigh..
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...were it not for five thousand miles and pockets devoid of shekels, i would be there yesterday...
*placing donation shekel boxes in all supermarkets and banks* lol...... quickly googling shekels... :)
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There is Guitar hero being played in my little lounge and high volume by Jacob and 3 of his mates.... there my Tom at the top of the stairs with a lovely new acoustic guitar his girlfriend bought him for crimbo (he has never wanted to play the guitar before) and I can hear the 'learn to play guitar' CD playing over and over and over...... there is loud punk music coming from Sams little attic bedroom as 3 of his band mates are round having a little jam, after an apparently 'well tight' gig last night...... I have been hiding in the kitchen lol..... the noise level in this house is painful.... maybe I will go sit on the beach in the dark on me own in the quiet of the night lol
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eeeek!...i suck at Guitar Hero...it's a detriment actually knowing how to play guitar when trying to play that game...my nephews got a huge laff at me getting boooooooed off the stage...
...here's hoping you can find a quiet moment in a quiet space...
tiz only guitar hero now playing in the lounge lol.....
I suck at it to.... Im not into me lads Playstaion 3 or Wii or XBox thingies..... just give me back my old Atari 1040 lol with the flat screen games..... dam, Im to dam old..
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Just popping on to check ya warm and toasty with ya gramjy's Afghan..... its a little before 8pm and just back from the trampoline run, been doing paperwork all day.... and its freezing here in jolly old England....... -10 forecast for tonight and to us softy brits its BLOODY COLD lol
stay warm you....... snuggle under that blanket.... and put on extra thick socks lol...... see, now I worrry :)
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now, would that be a minus 10 degrees Centigrade or Fahrenheit?...most of us doodles are woefully ignorant concerning the metric system, me included...
...been a wee bit chilly here, but warming up for the rest of the week and i have been employing the flannel sheets and wooly socks and Grammy's afghan when the nights get cold...
ah...would that i had a big roarin' fireplace like ye...
These days, Aunt Cleo's Hatpin is my guide.
Love
Tiz -10C
(((((((Soul Pixie)))))) you both are my guides.....
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hmmm...if i'm gonna be a guide, i need to get to the optomotrist and have my spectacles updated...
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