![]() The pretty blonde doll wears a knitted hood tied under her chin and the vertically ruffled skirt flows from a short-knitted bodice giving an effect like Red Riding Hood’s cloak, except this skirt is in sky blue with contrasting pink, lemon, orange and brown stripes. “It kept the mind sane and she was always excited to find a new pattern. ‘She did miles of crochet and knitting,’ Josephine tells me. ![]() When I hold them in my hands, I sense Nonna’s intention, resilience, effort and skill. These items and some other brightly coloured finer crochets were amongst pieces left for us grandchildren by Nonna’s only daughter, my aunt Josephine. I felt robbed, then and ever since, of the opportunity to really know her and connect with her, after I had grown to adulthood. I chose this pieces as a keepsake, a memory of Nonna, my Italian grandmother, after her death in 1981.
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