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Columbus Haiku

lucia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:46:43 +0000

Sail the ocean blue
in the Nina, Pinta and
Santa Maria.

I bet you wish your husband or boyfriend owned this splendid intarsia sweater to wear on Columbus Day! He could wear it twice this year: Monday when we actually celebrate and on October 12th, the official day.

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Cosby Sweater Haiku

lucia — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:34:21 +0000

Why did I knit this?
I watch Bill Cosby reruns
and think it’s in style.

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Browsing Ebay and Bonus Haiku

lucia — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:54:19 +0000

It’s often easy for women of advancing years to delude themselves into belief that everything was better when they were young. In my youth I became aware of this risk and vowed I would not succumb.

To help me keep my vow, I have made it my practice to examine the covers of McCalls Needlework and Crafts, concentrating on those from the 70s and 80s, when I first began to knit.¹ How do I examine a huge number of covers similar to the beaut pictured to the left? Ebay!

Though the images on ebay are often good enough to convey the “total 80ness” of the covers, unfortunately, they are generally too small to reveal the “interesting” details I would highlight in a Haiku. While you can see very crafty Christmas ornaments the size of a your chest, but you’d really need to squint to see the 80’s puffed sleeves pictured to the left.

But, today, two separate ads showed images of a sweater with intarsia so bold anyone could see it in the tiniest of images. And so I bring you this:

Huge hot pink trefoils
rise up on this woman’s chest
Classics from McCalls.

1. Since I knit during the 80’s, I bought and kept a number of these along with some knitting periodicals printed by Better Homes and Gardens. The contents of these two periodicals have often been the subject of Haikus and sometimes my musings on the splendors of 80’s knitting. (Haiku’s: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Splendor of 80s knitting:
1, 2 & 3, 4.)

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80’s Pom Pom Haiku

lucia — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:32:36 +0000

These playful pompoms
might be perfect on a hat.
But on a skirt hem?

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Bathing Suit Haiku

lucia — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:59:03 +0000

Someone knit this thing
for her college age daughter
who thinks it’s funny.

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Electrifying Haiku

lucia — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:07:36 +0000

Nineteen ninety one:
First Place — Most Unique Design.
Electrifying!

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Nutcracker Haiku

lucia — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:41:23 +0000

Is the tree tiny
or nutcracker enormous?
He’ll give you nightmares!

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