Yarn dolls

September 19, 2010
To keep Pearl from going mad with boredom after church today, I resurrected a lost talent of mine... yarn dolls. My grandma used to make hundreds of these for me as a kid in all sorts of colors and sizes. It made for hours and hours of entertainment. All you need is some yarn, a pair of scissors, and a book. Pearl wasn't too sure what I was trying to make her (she was still pleading for me to make more paper dolls but seeing as how I could figure out how to fold the paper right to get them to be attached to each other, I gave up) and we had a bit of a meltdown before she realized how much fun these are. I think even Jeff was impressed that I could remember how to make them. What I thought was going to be a bit of a chore to keep Pearl happy was really a lot of fun. I enjoyed telling Pearl about how my grandma used to make them for me when I was a little girl (ok, so 12 is still little, right?) and loved watching her play with them, imagining they were a family then Buzz Lightyear then who knows what. Every time I see them they remind me of how much my grandma must have loved me to give in to my pleadings to make these every time we went to her house. I sure miss her.