Monday, November 16, 2009

Pink Bears - Number 126 to 140 - One by One

Bear Number 140

Bear Number 139

Bear Number 138

Bear Number 137

Bear Number 136

Bear Number 135

Bear Number 134

Bear Number 133

Bear Number 132

Bear Number 131

Bear Number 130

Bear 129

Bear Number 128

Bear Number 127

Bear Number 126


Sunday, November 15, 2009

Pigging out on PINK



A compulsive personality must feed its habits. When the doctor disallowed my pizza binges, the economy clipped my ink and photo paper buying wings, and time constraints cut down on my internet surfing hours, I had to find another way to express my enthusiasm for ordinary pleasures. I started to pig out on PINK. How many Bears would I be able to knit in two shades of pink and a few skeins of white yarn? Without repeating? I think the answer is that this could go on forever. But I have only knitted fifteen pink and white Bears with skirts that proclaim, “Look at this! It’s a girl Bear!” And I must admit that I have satisfied my craving for pink.

Tomorrow, when I take a load of Bears – forty of them – to the UPS store to be shipped off to Mother Bear, fifteen of them will fly high, shouting singing, praising the color pink. The others will smile - in a non-pink way – quietly – secure in their own colors. And then the last pink Bear knitted – Number 140 - I’ve named her Frances – will say, “I don’t see what the commotion is all about. We are all the same inside.”

I will nod, thinking of all the bags of polyester fiberfill I have bought in the last two years. I will hand the box over to the agent. Pay the shipping fee. And as I walk back to my car I will ponder the colors for Bear number 141. I’ve already bought “Limelight” and “Butterscotch.” Will leftover pink get along with those two? And what face color should I use? Maybe “Chocolate.” Hmmmm – Chocolate!