She never did like thready business.
Yet there she was, darning holes, patching elbows, sewing up dangling hems and chasing runs on stockings.
How did it ever come to that?
She squinted and held the needle to the light.
The story of her life, it was. That squeezing through the eye of the needle. Barely, barely making do. Struggling to fit another stitch before the end of her rope.
It was all wrong.
She tied the knot.
It slipped.
She tied another, hoping it would hold. Hoping that the hidden stitches she put in will keep things covered long enough to soothe the chill that ever lurked, awaiting exposed places.
Existing really should not be so threadbare.
The thin wrap of life, knit together moment by moment in complicated patterns of dropped stitches and messy mistakes.
Will it come together at the end?
She did not know, but she hoped.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge #63
Na'ama Yehuda 
Exactly! A perfect description of life’s challenges.
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🙂 Glad you liked it! I was hoping I didn’t take this out too far in the sewing department … 😉
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I think it was a good balance. Years ago I wrote a little poem about knitting as a metaphor. It was actually published in a book with a fairly wide distribution. I could post it here if you are interested, or send it another way. I was only slightly confused at the beginning because I was trying to read it as the goat talking!
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Oh, I’d be delighted to see it!
Do you have a link to attach or direct me to?
Can you imagine if it was the Alpaca speaking all along! 🙂 Poor Alpaca … I can’t see how one threads the needle using two split hooves … 🙂
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Hi Na’ama.
Here you go! I added it to the top of a pre-existing page. I enabled comments and am always happy to get them.
And there’s your next prompt- to have the alpaca speaking! I did realize it wasn’t the alpaca when I got to the needle being threaded! :>)
You and one of my neighbors who I met in a writing group are both very amazing at your output. And the QUALITY thereof.
Shona
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OOOOOOOOh, can you imagine if it WAS the alpaca?!!! I’d pay good money to see an alpaca darning socks!!! 😀
Thanks for the link — I’ll check it out later and let you know my thoughts.
Thank you, too, for the kind feedback about you and your neighbors views of my writing! Yay! Makes me feel happy! 🙂
Na’ama
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Well, Shona — I did what you asked … 😉
Go check this: https://naamayehuda.com/2020/01/26/darn-yarn-take-2/
🙂 This was fun!
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What a lovely take on the prompt, Na’ama! We do our best to stitch the pieces of our life together in a seemless fashion, don’t we?
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We sure do! And sometimes it doesn’t look as orderly if you look at the ‘work-side’ versus the ‘display side’, but it is all part of the tapestry that we are! 🙂
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Exactly! No one needs look at the work side (until we need that extra help 😉 )
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Ezatly! 🙂
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Apt for a picture of a threadbare alpaca.
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She’s a bit … um … shorn… ; )
Glad you liked it! 🙂
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Did indeed. And you should have seen her feet. I swear she was wearing fluffy fur boots!
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Ha ha! I know, them alpacas are wearing the original UGGs … 😉
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Yea. 🙂
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🙂
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