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murielleLJ SURVIVOR 2020
Challenge 5: Caught in the Web
Silk thread slips through her fingers as she weaves it in and out counting aloud,
“Chain three, dc five, chain three, dc seven…”
On and on, around and around, carefully measured loops and knots and twists and turns, each pass enlarging the creation in her hands in tiny increments.
She daydreams as she works. Who will wear this? Will it be for a Christening, or a wedding, will someone place it on their piano and put a crystal vase of roses on it? She smiles as she imagines sunbeams passing through the crystal and painting colorful patterns over her finished work. It will take many more hours, days, and weeks until the delicate lace is complete, but she is confident that when finished it will be beautiful.
Her shawls are coveted. And she is paid well for her work, but the money never matters to her as much as the satisfaction she feels when she holds the finished product in her hands, or when she hears the delighted exclamations of prospective buyers as they examine her work.
The light is going, the sun sliding behind the mountains. She holds her handiwork up admiring the delicate pattern, and then carefully folds her work and gently places it in a pillowcase to keep it clean and safe. Rising slowly, she moves over to the window. She picks up a newspaper, rolling it up in her hands as she goes, then swipes it at the web a spider has been weaving all afternoon. She shudders as the spider’s craft falls to the floor along with a fly still struggling to free its weakening body from the thread.
Challenge 5: Caught in the Web
Silk thread slips through her fingers as she weaves it in and out counting aloud,
“Chain three, dc five, chain three, dc seven…”
On and on, around and around, carefully measured loops and knots and twists and turns, each pass enlarging the creation in her hands in tiny increments.
She daydreams as she works. Who will wear this? Will it be for a Christening, or a wedding, will someone place it on their piano and put a crystal vase of roses on it? She smiles as she imagines sunbeams passing through the crystal and painting colorful patterns over her finished work. It will take many more hours, days, and weeks until the delicate lace is complete, but she is confident that when finished it will be beautiful.
Her shawls are coveted. And she is paid well for her work, but the money never matters to her as much as the satisfaction she feels when she holds the finished product in her hands, or when she hears the delighted exclamations of prospective buyers as they examine her work.
The light is going, the sun sliding behind the mountains. She holds her handiwork up admiring the delicate pattern, and then carefully folds her work and gently places it in a pillowcase to keep it clean and safe. Rising slowly, she moves over to the window. She picks up a newspaper, rolling it up in her hands as she goes, then swipes it at the web a spider has been weaving all afternoon. She shudders as the spider’s craft falls to the floor along with a fly still struggling to free its weakening body from the thread.
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I crochet a lot as a hobby, so I know the feeling of all of the work that goes into those sorts of things. I have never attempted to do any sort of lace crochet, because God it just seems even more tedious than using yarn, but it's just the coolest thing to see what one simple strand of string can turn into if manipulated and knotted in just the right ways.
But to be so involved in one's self and one's own work that one cannot appreciate the hard work of others, or considers it to be a nuisance instead of a significant prize... well, it's very telling of the protagonist here, and gives me something to think about myself.
I was surprised to see such a short piece, but it was very effective and I wouldn't have wanted it any longer! Good job :D
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I think it's wonderful that you crochet. I actually don't. I knit. A lot. I have crocheted little things here and there, scarves, trim, etc., but I'd love to be able to follow the charts and do some of the wonderful Russian patterns I find on Pinterest. Maybe 2021 will be the year I finally take advantage of all the free craft classes online and finally learn this beautiful craft.
Thank you for seeing the flaw in the protagonist. It's what hit me hardest as I was writing. She was so full of pride about her own work, but couldn't see the spider's work as valuable at all. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for appreciating my little offering. Once finished, I just couldn't fiddle with it as it just seemed so complete. Thank you.
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To those who don't, the crafts seem to be interchangeable. LOL!
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*Hugs*
Toddling off to bed now...'Night!
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This is artful storytelling! :)
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It's little but I just couldn't think of a thing to add to it. :-)
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Though I am impressed by her work! I have no talent for anything like that whatsoever. I've tried, but it's all ended up a jumped of string and nothing to show for it. Heh.
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I'm a knitter, but I'd love to learn to crochet. And I'm going to take one of those free online classes, finally, in the new year. I hope. If I don't bog myself down with other stuff. LOL!
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