At the Moss Street Christmas Market a lady had knit long scarves and demonstrated a way of wearing them by wrapping them first around her ears and then around her neck. The same day, at the Fernwood Winter Market, a young woman had made ties into headbands that wrapped fetchingly around the head over the ears.
I had been thinking of knitting – what did we call them? – those little lengths of wool (usually fluffy) that went over the top of the head and over the ears and were fastened under the chin with ties (usually with pompoms.)
After those Markets I came home and searched out the long (very!) scarves I had made last year, got out the model Georges, and did a wrap, wrap, wrap….. He isn’t one to share his thoughts and gives nothing away in his expression, so I had to try them on myself to see how they felt.
They felt good. The downside is the time it takes to wind them on – and wind them off. And I suspect all that arm flailing – in public – might cause a bit of a commotion.
Maybe a fluffy little – whatever – would be a better idea. I wonder if I remember how to make pompoms.