secret lives of women - The Making of the Bog Jacket

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

secret lives of women - Dear,

We had a dog’s weather yesterday. That is what we say when it is raining hard. This dog’s weather gave me a good excuse to stay inside. I was not afraid of getting wet, but all the surfaces turned to nasty thick and slippery and dangerous ice.

I have had such a good time thinking about the Dollhouse and the life within and I have been adding on to the story. I will want to focus on the various textiles and clothes in the house but then I am sure I will enjoy making the furniture and, hopefully in the summer after the bookbinding course, some books too.

“The Making of the Bog Jacket

Amanda’s and Martta’s mother is an actress which means that the girls have an opportunity to meet fascinating artists and famous actors and that they get to play endless hours in the theatre but it also means that their mother is away a lot. Their father works in the university. If you asked the girls what their father is doing they’d answer that he is a bookworrm with the stress on the r. Literature is his field.”

Can you see why I added this? Yes, for the sake of books and small-scale fancy costumes. And this picture is from the family album…

“Grandma M is mother’s mother. She does not live in the house because she and her daughter could not reside under the same roof for various reasons and Grandma M must have her piece and quiet but she lives close enough to be a frequent visitor and to come to rescue when needed. The little girls have become the centre of her being. She is a widow. She usually baby-sits during the performance nights and she always comes over with her knitting. She sits in a comfortable arm chair with clicking needles - after the girls’ father has read them bedtime stories and left for the theatre - until the girls fall asleep and long after that. She used to knit in a rocking chair that was kept in the girls’ room after their mother had used it for nursing but just recently the chair was removed from there (knitting in a rocking chair made hear head dizzy) and replaced by a good armchair where she can find a good posture for knitting. She chose the chair and had it brought over to the house of which her daughter was not too happy about.”

I would love to make that knitting chair. And it is obvious why I made the grandmother the knitter and why she bought that chair, sitting on a floor does look a bit uncomfortable. She seems to have a good straight back though, but she does excercises regularly. Maybe she will show them some day.
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