Today on our podcast adventure, we sit in the woods with lake and ocean behind us. It is a pretty amazing combination to have both at your back. The place where we sit together is a special spot off the actual trail, nestled amongst vibrant green moss that covers earth and rocks. It is quiet and still in this particular spot, unless of course you consider Sasha. Actually that isn’t a fair assessment. Sasha is very well behaved and I love having her keep me company.

In the podcast I mention the kerchief I am wearing. Below I share a little about it, as well as the free pattern if you’d like to knit one.

My Babcia, what a thrifty grandmother she was! She had a corner of her house where little scraps of things turned magically in to just what you needed. Having grown up in a time where everything was in short supply except, as she always said, “hunger and drafts”—those were two things there was always more than you wanted!

Babcia had a way of not only making leftovers brilliant,

but that woman could take the worst of hair days, shake the wrinkles off a kerchief or remnant of material and tie her hair up in a way that made me wonder why I didn’t always see her as a spirited, lovely woman…instead of simply my grandmother. I inherited her wiry, curly hair. But those kerchiefs give me a headache! It’s that blasted knot at the back of my head and neck that does it. So I started thinking like Babcia…and improvising using the remaining pieces of yarn from other knitted projects, I devised way to honor her resourceful nature and create a kerchief I could stylishly wear. You can use whatever leftovers you have on hand. This kerchief doesn’t take much. But it uses perfectly good remaining yardage and makes my neck feel good and my hair look tidy while wearing it, even if I wear it off of center, which I do actually prefer!

And work up fast!

Babcia would be proud of us both!

Click below to download the pattern.

Babcia’s Corner Pattern

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kindly,

Mel