It's about as serious as things can get right now.
We're hunkered down when we'd prefer to go out, volunteer, and somehow try and save lives and reduce suffering, staying home unless we are essential. Because, we understand, it's the kindest thing we can do for others right now, not to mention for ourselves and our families.
So I've been sewing masks for our local health center. And, naturally, I've also turned again to knitting from time to time.
Recently when my neighbor Marc and I were chatting over the fence at a respectable 18-foot distance, he said he had a new idea for a hat, and it should say "roll."
"Why roll?" he said recently on Instagram. "Because that's what my father would say: roll with the punches. So that's what we need to do now."
And knowing I had some leftover yarn tucked away in my stash, I got to work.
Now to me, Marc is the guy next door. Neighbor. Father. Husband. Jokester. Home cook and baker. Patient, weary gardener and pruner of overgrown invasives. But he's also a landscape architecture professor.
His hats have become something of his trademark and signature style, not only here in our neighborhood but also in his classrooms and studios. Not everyone catches on right away, but he's sending a clear message alright, regular as radar. Some days he's wearing his "meh..." hat, his wry commentary and critique of modern design gone awry I sometimes think. Or he's donning the "make" hat, to encourage more people to step away from their screens and learn to use tangible materials again. Then there's the "more" hat, one that would surely spur me on to pull an all nighter if that's what it took in his class.
In recent months I had mostly spotted him in his "live" hat -- somehow optimistic and encouraging, right?
But for now, it's roll. So let's get on with it as best we all can.
More info: all hats are knit in various cotton yarns except for the "hair" version. Download my Helknitica font for knitting. (nominal charge)
We're hunkered down when we'd prefer to go out, volunteer, and somehow try and save lives and reduce suffering, staying home unless we are essential. Because, we understand, it's the kindest thing we can do for others right now, not to mention for ourselves and our families.
So I've been sewing masks for our local health center. And, naturally, I've also turned again to knitting from time to time.
Recently when my neighbor Marc and I were chatting over the fence at a respectable 18-foot distance, he said he had a new idea for a hat, and it should say "roll."
"Why roll?" he said recently on Instagram. "Because that's what my father would say: roll with the punches. So that's what we need to do now."
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| If I were this professor's student, I'd get on with it. |
Now to me, Marc is the guy next door. Neighbor. Father. Husband. Jokester. Home cook and baker. Patient, weary gardener and pruner of overgrown invasives. But he's also a landscape architecture professor.
His hats have become something of his trademark and signature style, not only here in our neighborhood but also in his classrooms and studios. Not everyone catches on right away, but he's sending a clear message alright, regular as radar. Some days he's wearing his "meh..." hat, his wry commentary and critique of modern design gone awry I sometimes think. Or he's donning the "make" hat, to encourage more people to step away from their screens and learn to use tangible materials again. Then there's the "more" hat, one that would surely spur me on to pull an all nighter if that's what it took in his class.
In recent months I had mostly spotted him in his "live" hat -- somehow optimistic and encouraging, right?
But for now, it's roll. So let's get on with it as best we all can.
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| Marc in his many hats. The project began with the black-and-white "hair" hat -- warm in wool, funny, ironic, and probably in need of replacing. |
More info: all hats are knit in various cotton yarns except for the "hair" version. Download my Helknitica font for knitting. (nominal charge)
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