Sunday 10 April 2016

whys and wherefores

I'm considering knitting a gravestone cosy for a long deceased stranger. My local church is St John's Leytonstone and I spent a contented hour discovering the treasures within the graveyard this week. The church was built in 1833, the same year slavery was abolished and people who campaigned for this cause are buried here. Making a cosy for an unknown person is a new departure and a very different act from making for my family. I'm untangling the whys and wherefores, allowing the idea to hang in the ether while I make up my mind.

 Leytonstone folk

Did a relative plant a sapling?

Entanglement  

Tiny stone marking four burials