Mossy Cottage Knits

Baby Harris, Here We Come!

These boxes, dutifully covered in baby-motif wrapping paper by Ryan “Five Thumbs” Morrissey, and containing a heartwarming assortment of knitted and sewn baby accoutrements…

…are in my office as we speak and will be going home with Step-pappy to Lori Harris and Lovie today! (Update! Step-pappy and I walked the boxes to his truck five minutes ago. They're officially on their way to the new mother, and will probably be delivered on Saturday. Thank you all for making this such a rewarding and fulfilling project!!)

Pictures I forgot, and the latest additions:

From Beth in St. Paul, MN, pristine white socks and a cozy earflap hat Lovie can definitely grow into. Yay!

From Minnie in Omaha, an emerald-green crocheted sweater, perfect for a little girl, or so says Priscilla, the Model of the Day, who, soon after this picture was taken, tried to smuggle the sweater out of her dressing room:

From Kathryn in Wisconsin, an ultra-cheerful cotton bib:

From NancyO, she of the 157-Items-For-Dulaan-All-By-Her-Lonesome, a sweet, cream-colored crocheted sweater:

Damn these overpaid artistes! Priscilla just threw a big hissy and said if an ice-cold magnum of champagne wasn't delivered to her room This Instant she wasn’t coming out to the set. So, let me introduce Peanut-Butter Bear, actually one of the sound-system and lighting guys, but he said he was happy to fill in for La Diva. This caramel-colored hunk of bear flesh is wearing an amazing contribution to the Baby Harris Project, a sweater knit in rich, deep pastels, using a remarkable cotton yarn that has the cool, drapey feel of silk. Who knit it, you ask? Yeah, about that. It’s someone from Ferals but...argh!...I forgot who gave it to me. If this is yours, chime in, please! I know you, and I know I know you; the name and face have just fallen victim to a Senior Moment. A looooong Senior Moment which, so far, has lasted a couple of days. (Update! Dear Reader (and knitter of the bath mitt) Michale tells me this sweater came from Ellen.)

Peanut Butter Bear was called back to his sound and lighting duties, and Priscilla is still sulking a la Miss Piggie, so we brought in Blue Bear-y, one of the cafeteria guys. Sure, he looks a little rumpled but you would, too, if you’d had a hairnet on not five seconds before. Here, Blue Bear-y is wearing an adorable contribution from local knitter Andrea. This sweater is perfect; perfectly knit, perfectly seamed, perfectly cute, and, when it was produced, made all the Ferals go weak at the knees from the cuteness of it.

And here Blue Bear-y is cradling a nicely wrapped baby bath-washing mitt made by local knitter Michale. Poor Michale; she had to explain to a clueless me, very carefully and slowly, and with lots of hand gestures and pantomiming, why she had made only one, and how, no, it wasn't a warm mitt for wearing out on a cold winter's day, and how the mother would hold the baby in the tub with one hand and wear the mitt on the other to wash the baby and...well, it was all quite beyond my uterus-free self.

Thank you everyone for the supportive and positive thoughts you sent to me and TMK. The relationship is by no means back to where it was, but, with the army of therapists we have assembled and the money we are throwing at them hand over fist, surely we can get back to something approximating normalcy?

(P.S. Speaking of health, mental, physical or otherwise, if you ever find yourself fretting over the state of the American or Canadian health systems, read this recent entry from Cuzzin Tom. That should set you to rights.)

Posted by Ryan at January 2, 2008 12:19 PM