https://www.riverhagyarns.com/babbling-hag daily 0.75 2025-02-20 https://www.riverhagyarns.com/babbling-hag/knitting-through-grief monthly 0.5 2025-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/8fb541d3-f9e8-4c2f-ac7c-fa0b9a70aada/PXL_20241219_182509949.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL%7E2.jpg Babbling Hag - Knitting Through Grief - Marigold Dyed Worsted Weight Yarn Worsted weight yarn made with romeldale fine wool and naturally dyed using marigold flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/36ef4748-446b-4f9b-b385-2642df0f5af8/468084793_10235437815951930_4899049965179816102_n.jpg Babbling Hag - Knitting Through Grief Michele had a laugh that never held back. It was one of my favorite things, making her laugh. I can still hear it seven years later. She had beaten breast cancer back a couple of times, but it just wouldn’t let go of her. I got the call from her husband Roger on a January morning that things were not going well and her time in this life was coming to an end. I had moved away four years earlier, but during my frequent trips back home she was always the one I went straight to. We spent hours on the phone, but not often enough. Michele was one of my best friends. Our kids were best friends. Our husbands were good friends. I loved her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/e42015ca-d1fb-422a-9d64-545bc2a3c605/Michele+Poncho.jpg Babbling Hag - Knitting Through Grief But then the time for mourning came, and I decided to knit a hug from Michele instead of the other way around. I ripped out what I had begun and went on the search for a new pattern. I chose the pattern fittingly called “O Friend” by Maggi Toner-Edgar that is part of the Innisfree Collection inspired by William Butler Yeats’s poem which begins “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/5cfd46ac-d374-4543-8acf-192a855015f4/Michele+poncho+2.jpg Babbling Hag - Knitting Through Grief Over the next year, I would work on the poncho whenever I thought of her. I knit many tears and a lot of heartbreak into that wrap, but also a lot of smiles and happy memories. I even have a section where I can still see the anger in the stitches. I finished it on the one year anniversary of her passing over. https://www.riverhagyarns.com/babbling-hag/settingintentions monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/e9abd4b9-dadc-467a-9132-91b36896d216/PXL_20241112_050337712.PORTRAIT+%282%29.jpg Babbling Hag - Setting Intentions for your Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.riverhagyarns.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/657e3b80-8570-44c6-90da-8416b29a0f87/final+River+hag+Yarns+Logo.jpg https://www.riverhagyarns.com/about daily 0.75 2024-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/671ef63966ce0628097df777/508928bc-d06e-43b6-9f8f-7a135b6bb4f5/processed_PXL_20241112_071554098.MP.jpg