Bandit Dresses

bandit dresses for bandit girls...

When my friend's little girl looked up at me the other day, and asked, "Lesley, can you knit me a dress? A dark blue one?" I just knew that I had gotten the wind of inspiration needed to begin another creation.
I love knitting and crocheting.
Although there is not much Danish-spun yarn (someone even told me there were none left! the horror!) quality, natural, homespun yarns abound in this city.
[interruption] my phone rings. it's Paulette!
Paulette: Hi, Miss Lesley-Ann
Me: Hi Paulette! (very enthusiastically, haven't spoken to Ms. P for a while. Ms. P is a fellow Flatbush girl, who also had a childhood shared between sweltering Caribbean heat and the gray of Brooklyn sidewalks.)
Paulette: Hi Miss Lesley-Ann, I'm calling to invite you to X's confirmation...
(we both laugh. we both know my aversion to organized functions...)
Paulette: But X asked if you would be there--
this changes the situation immediately. Ms. P has a wonderful daughter, about a few months older than my son, who is creatively inclined and apparently asked for my presence herself. Case closed.
I will be there.
With bells on.

 When you're 6 thousand miles away from blood relations , it is those around you who become your family.

 thus the dark blue dress for another one of my friend's daughters...
but the dress is not quite yet finished...
it's like it's asking for some words stitched across its front...
but what word can truly capture
the magic
of a little
girl?

 That is my challenge now, I suppose.

 farvel,
the lab

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