Living on West Tulsa Time

What Crochet Means to Me

Crochet to me means security. The secure feeling of happy memories from mychildhood snuggled under a buttery yellow afghan made specifically for me bymy Grandmother. I can be secure in my history of creative and ingenious menand women when I touch the wooden hook my grandmother's father made for herduring the Depression. Crochet has its rewards in my family as well. Often aproject could excite my mentally ill and severely depressed mother. Her need for completion would infect our creative spirits and revive her connection to the family. There is nothing more secure to a preteen in rehab than the crocheted tiny rose mailed to me. A touch of home in a coldinstitutional surrounding. A reminder that my beloved bushes are waiting for me to emerge like the first buds of spring. I can come home and be welcomed by all. The warmth of a snagged and scruffy crochet cap worn by mygrandfather to hunt in, my uncle during chemo and my husband to play. I also know I will never be naked or cold because I can fashion warmth out of wisps of cotton, fur or grass through crochet.

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