Anna’s maternal grandparents were raised in the south during the Great Depression. The apple never falling far from the family tree,  Anna has saved all of her old leftover sock yarn for years and years and years.  And years.

One day, Anna discovers Maura Kalman‘s embroidered story panels at the Jewish Museum in New York City.  She can barely contain her excitement.  Apparently, neither can Maira, as she stitched into this panel. Isn’t it marvelous? And exciting?

Not having any embroidery floss on hand, Anna decides to use her old sock yarn to tell her story.  Being a poor grad student, with a chilly apartment, Anna uses her old sock yarn to make a crazy intarsia blanket. It is zany and beautiful.  Just like Anna.  Just like Maira.

Shop girl Anna has moved to Boston to attend graduate school in Library Science and Children’s Literature. For all her fans, she is still Sunday Shop Girl!
Here is her new costume, er, dress, that she designed and knit. Tahki Cotton Lite, $38 total.
Genius. That’s my gal!

Woolen bathing suits from 1930s…
Clare and her cousin at the 2011 family reunion at the upper Ausable Lake, New York.
Don’t you just love the smell of moth balls in the summertime?

“Which do you Choose” wedding dress… Sorry, you can’t see the bride until after the wedding… more later!

Sunday 8:32 AM:
Without power for 76 minutes.
Have to heat coffee on fire of gas stove.
Wet clothes in the washer. Can’t dry them.
Have to knit dry clothes to stay warm though the storm.
Knitting with my spelunker head lamp like the miners in Chile.
Not enough yarn to survive. Have to knit clothes out of the old electrical cords from our dead appliances.
Drinking water stored for emergency in my kids’ dirty skummy bathtub.
Back to basic survival: water, fire, coffee.

Sunday 10:03 AM:
Never mind.
Power is back on.
Anyone want an electrical cord bra?