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[e_clare]

Hi. I'm back. But only because my life just keeps getting weirder.

Yesterday's run-in with the vulva puppet wasn't bad enough. Today, I hopped onto the Hampshire-MHC PVTA to find an intrepid Hampshire student knitting a womb.

Re-read that if you need to. I'll help: KNITTING. A WOMB.

She was fashioning a fallopian tube out of pink and white variegated yarn, and cursing at the little fringy bits on the end (it was looking kind of frayed). Surprisingly, nobody made any obvious tube-tying jokes...possibly because they were all so horrified? I don't know. I tried really hard to pay attention to my film reading, and only caught bits and pieces of the subsequent conversation about midwifery.

No words, people. I have no words for this. I'm honestly a bit frightened about what craftsy reproductive organs I may encounter next.

Comments

[olivia-circe.livejournal.com]

Gah.

Although I actually think the vulva puppet is scarier than the womb.

I was going to direct you to a pattern for a knitted Cthulu, but then I could find the link. Ah well.

[mirror-dancer.livejournal.com]

i looked at those pictures of the puppets. thanks, emily.

maybe you just have a knack for finding reproductive organs in unexpected places. :P

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Everybody needs a talent. ;)

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

The vulva was indeed scarier than the womb -- the womb, at least, was approximately life-sized. And it didn't resemble a cannibalistic Muppet, so there's that.

[mirror-dancer.livejournal.com]

yeah, super talent, that. finding reproductive organs in weird places. :P

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

This is actually from knitty.com, and there's a big movement that's going to send them to DC on the 25th.

[llogan.livejournal.com]

was it like a scarf so that she could keep hers warm? i mean, if my mom makes mittens for hands...


nevermind. its much easier to say that you live in a weird place.

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's actually pretty awesome.

This is what I love about the internet: a Smithie in Scotland whom I've never met can explain that a Hampshire student is knitting body parts for a national cause. Beautiful. :)

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

You're just lucky I didn't hop on my cell phone to tell you about it right away. :P

[llogan.livejournal.com]

to be honest, your oddly times phonecalls are the bright spots of my week... even if about finding random body parts (or representatons thereof)