Captain's Log, Stardate 02.24.2009 I am extraordinarily proud of this. For Christmas, I wanted to knit something for my parents that would be really cool and personal, and sort of an heirloom. So I took the five family crests I had for my family (in Japanese, a family crest is called a “mon”) and graphed the designs on knitting graph paper so that I could knit intarsia panels of the mons. I knit 5 intarsia panels and 4 plain panels and then sewed them together to make an afghan. In Japan, family crests are carried by both male and female, so I used mons from both my parents' sides. Traditionally, mons are passed down from mother to daughter and from father to son, but there are sometimes cases of a son taking a mother’s mon or a husband taking his wife’s family’s mon and things like that. I know we have more than 5 family crests, but we’ve lost some of them. My mom tried to find them all several years ago, but could only find these five. The fans mon was actually...
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Camy
I just finished Single Sashimi!!! LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!! I want to send you a copy of my review, but I can't get the email link to function in such a way that I can use my hotmail to send it. (I'm at work and can't use my work email)
Please email me at kimfurd at hotmail dot com and I'll be glad to email the review that I will post for the FIRST post!
Kim
WINDOW TO MY WORLD
Thanks, Kim! I'll email you right now!
Camy