Zoom Blanket at this very moment
I want to wish everybody who participated in the making of this blanket a wonderful Christmas and a very special new year.
2009 has been a difficult one for me, as you know, but you all pitched in to ensure that something good came of it, and I love you for it. Your kindness still touches me.
This blanket is an ongoing source of comfort – both physical and emotional – for me. It symbolizes something very special. I have trouble putting it into words, but it has something to do with the whole unifying nature of knitting. Women’s communal effort. Women knitting communities together. (Argh. I’m mangling it. I’m usually better than this at words! But maybe some of you know what I mean even though I’m having trouble articulating it?)
I know I’ve been delinquent in keeping up this blog, and I apologize for that. I’m not even sure if anybody’s still reading it, but if you are, I want you to know I haven’t abandoned it. I’m just blogging very very slowly for some reason. I think it’s because I’m having trouble writing profiles of people I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about changing the format in the new year – more pictures, fewer words. What do you think?
My very best wishes to all of you for a healthy, happy, and relatively prosperous new year, with lots of kindness flowing in and out of your lives. And may lots of happy knitting flow from your needles in 2010.
Warmly,
Zoom
I’m so happy it’s bringing you comfort, that’s totally the intended purpose! I’ll eventually send you a little blurbs about my squares.
Chloe
Hi Zoom.
I love knowing that it’s still giving you comfort, so long after we made it for you. I have started a blanket of my own for a family friend who has terminal brain/lung cancer, and I hope it imbues her last days with the same kind of love and positive energy that you receive from yours… and after her last day, I hope that it offers some slim comfort to her daughter.
I won’t be sending you a blurb about my squares. I chose the yarns because I loved them and I hoped you would, too; and I chose the patterns because I needed something pretty and quick to work into my school schedule. I chose to be a part of the project because we all affect the lives of the people around us, whether we acknowledge it or not… you’ve changed my life in small ways through your blog, and this was me returning the favour. That’s the only thing anyone needs to know about those squares.
May you and Duncan feel the warmth of that communal effort all throughout the coming year, and as long as that blanket exists.
We made the blanket for *you*, dear one, so you hug it and document it however you choose.
Thank you for the good wishes for the new year. We wish the same for you!
We’re not going anywhere. Good wishes for the new year to everyone here.
Thank you, all of you. And Susan, I’m so sorry about your friend. I believe she – and her daughter – will cherish their blanket forever.
I love reading about the other knitters who shared their skills to make squares, too, but I suspect most of us have not been very quick to send you profiles to use on this page. Maybe that’s due to innate shyness; maybe it’s a certainty that other people’s information will be much more interesting, so we should wait until after those people’s profiles have appeared; maybe it’s just reluctance to make the blanket about us, when it was supposed to be about you.
As for me, I’m simply glad that you love it and that you sense through it the love and support we knit into our squares.
Hugs from Florida!