After Reading Rob's blog, I have to agree that what I am making is technically more of a stole than a shawl. "Shawl" evokes images of pointy things with fringe (for an absolutely awesome example, and not just because I am a HUGE E.B. White fan, surf over to The Keyboard Biologist's blog....woweee!) "Stole" on the other hand is a rectangular ,just slightly off the shoulder, shrug type garment. N'est pas?
Last night as I was happily knitting along, doing the wave, as it were... the Boy known to the experts as Non Verbal appeared. "Mommy is Knitting! " he exulted, rocking the recliner to the absolute edge of its' limits. What is Mommy Knitting? I asked, holding up the object of waviness. More rocking, more thinking...and then "HEY, Reading Rainbow Fans!" Well, yes! Right you are, Child of Wonder. For lots of reasons....it is certainly rainbow colored and yes there are fan shapes and gee whiz, for a person who is not supposed to be able to Think Critically (him, not me ;) this is a Darn Good Name for this project. Once again I am astounded (take THAT oh Experts of Neurology and Speech pathology!) and filled with gratitude for the many abundant Blessings in my life.
We DO love Reading Rainbow! So much so that we purchased a video for our local Public Library. We have this wonderful program...you can purchase something in honor of someone and they put a special bookplate (or video plate in this case) naming the honoree.
xox
i, too, adore Reading Rainbow.
i bought one of my favourite books because of that show: "Stellaluna", which is about a baby fruit bat.
beautiful tale, beautiful artwork. wonderful show.
and great story about your child and the Reading Rainbow stole.
: )
Posted by: tllgrrl | August 31, 2003 at 12:51 PM
oh, stellaluna is incredibly beautiful :)
Posted by: greta | August 31, 2003 at 02:06 PM