Sahara Briscoe Pauses...

But only momentarily!                                                                                     At the risk of enhancing a persona as glam New York City elder, I offer you my whizzing 70 minutes--three more and it would equal my age--with Sistah Craft, aka, Sahara Briscoe, designer of knit creations, thinker of ideas outside all boxes.

It all started when she popped into Knitty City and showed her latest creation, a herringbone lace shell knit in pale green cotton (pictured on her site).  Would I model it for her?  Never one to pass up a chance for latelife visibility, I agreed.  That's how I ended up doing a quick change in a bathroom at the New York Times where Sahara works on fashion issues.  Fast walk to nearby Bryant Park behind the 42nd Street Library (the one with the lions in front).

Snap, snap.  "Let's ask this guy to take a shot of the two of us."  He agreed.  Pop into the (here's a travel tip, women and men) immaculately clean public bathroom to change back into my own top.  Out again, my turn --wish I had a camera like hers--for this, Sahara in a Condom Amulet from The Collection.  More animated talk about why women of a certain age were in denial about STDs...resistance to becoming familiar with the internet.  Was there a relationship here?  Too much new stuff coming toward us leads to a shutdown?

Detail: Wirecloth with vintage buttons and condom.  Sahara and I ask you to share this with a friend.  Sistah Craft and Donna Druchanas' Knitting for Change are blogs like mine that bring together fiber and politics.  Others?

The two of us imagined a dramatic photo shoot in front of the library lions.  Picture this:  women all ages adorned in Condom Amulets.  Italics are for my dreams; what are yours?

Comments

[angrypenguin]

How lovely to have your visit to my blog, Naomi. And now I visit yours. So many currents of commonality that I smile. I am jealous of the Maine knitters' retreat. But I am not yet retired - and it has been back, across the Pacific with my knitting needles, to work as a senior beached in a sea of wildly confident young blades.

[SAZ aka Susan]

Naomi - Where's the picture of you in the shell? I went to her site and didn't see it.

[sahara]

Wow! That photo of me came out great! After Sunday, when my post of the blog tour is finished, I will be able to post about our wonderful photo shoot! Had to finish up the––which issue was it? Oh yeah, design. BTW, I may have to shoot again, as I am finishing the neckline and armholes in Reverse Crochet. It would be dishonest to have you on the pattern cover and then give knitters another shell. Would you mind?

Hey! Let's organize that shoot of the Condom Amulets!

[Naomi Dagen Bloom]

Saz, You can see this is a work-in-progress and I'm flattered you might knit the pattern.

Sahara, "Yes!" to both the re-shoot and the women in Condom Amulets. But we should have done it during Fashion Week, give the big-time photographers a run for their money.