Dollar Store Nana

The Five and Dime...
Remember...
All those goodies

Or penny candy
Too many choices

Well, now we have
the Dollar Store...
and this Nana
with change purse
in hand browses.

Last winter
I found furry white bears
chubby and smiling
with pink satin bows.

Couldn't resist.
I bought two.
Knitted pink fuzzy vests
made with soft terry yarn...
a leftover from Frances'
first baby sweater.

Fun project.
Four rows of 2K, 2P, ribbing.
(Knit with round needle.)
An inch of stockinette.
Separate for front and back.
Decrease at both ends for four rows.
Bind off five center stitches.
Make two I-Cord straps.
Tie.

Wallah!

Not exactly Build-A-Bears
but then again not as pricey.

For fifty cents worth of yarn
and an hour and a half of time...

Well, what can I tell you?
It's Dollar Store Nana
fun.

I mailed them to the little misses
in CT. (Grandpa opined that the
mailing cost was exorbitant, far more
than the value of the project.) True.

Grace recognized that the
vests were Nana made.
(How lovely!)

I realized that sometimes
life requires whimsy.