Well, this week has been fun. This article  about me came out in 7 Days, Burlington’s alternative newspaper. A few fellow knitters have contacted me, and I can feel the start of a teeny-tiny knitting community percolating.

Here’s how it came about: Last week a friend of mine emailed the editor of our local paper and told her she thought I’d be a good subject for a feature in the arts section. My friend let me know about the email after the fact, which was better. I would have tried to stop her.Needless to say, I was VERY surprised. I was even more surprised that the writer contacted me that same day.

She wrote a wonderful article that I felt  genuinely captured my feelings about moving to a new community, my partnership with my mom, and my old life as “the knitting lady” in Oakland. And she did research on yarn bombing. What a thorough reporter.

Then there was the photo shoot. It cracked me up. The photographer stayed for like two hours and did three different set-ups. For the set-up with the doll, he treated her like she was a real person and kept on saying, “Excuse me, I just have to adjust your skirt….you don’t mind if I button this button, do you?”  How cute is that?  When the piece came out this week, I got lots of nice responses. The funniest came from my friend, who didn’t “get” the perspective of the shot. He said, “Is that doll life-size?” Add to this that the doll looks a lot like me. So he was thinking I had knit a life-size doll of myself. That’s a little too Lars and the Real Girl for me.

In case you’ll are wondering, her name is Benji; she’s American Girl-sized and she has two different outfits: a ballet ensemble complete with toe shoes and a school-girl uniform.