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PLUM KENNARD: For Beauty

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Knitting knitting knitting.
It grew. It grew. It shifted slightly just that way and became a caterpillar.
A fuzzy caterpillar.
It ate.
It slowed.
It wove.
It slept.
It slept straight through the pain, the breaking, the making, the knitting into a new life.
It emerged, for beauty.
For beauty.

Quite by chance, Plum Kennard has been around quite a while and is happy to be in this world. Her work reflects her delight in the magical moments of life, but also the grief & loss a long life brings.

CATH BARTON: An Innocent Pastime

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I learned to knit when I was two. Now I can follow complicated patterns and all my friends receive knitted creations for their birthdays.

My husband is annoyed by the click-clack of my needles, and I suspect he is plotting his revenge. Perhaps he’ll knit me up in my shroud.

Cath Barton lives in Wales. She has many pastimes, including writing, but is not a great knitter.