I have been thinking since last winter, the first-real-winter-with-snow-and-cold-all-the-time kind of winter, about wrapping my legs in a hand-made pair of crocheted ladies stockings, made with some fine silk thread.  However, knitting has recently been introduced into my technical repertoire and I am kind of in love with this vintage knit sock pattern.  Thinking I’ll be knitting these later this winter and then crocheting upwards from the cuffs with a fine silk thread.  This pattern is called the Ladies Useful Stocking, so I think it’s quite fitting that I automatically wanted to make them into a completely impractical and uber-delicate garment that won’t really be useful for wearing more than once as a whole piece.

I’m envisioning ladies stockings as a physical embodiment of desire and longing, female desire and longing more specifically.  Also, I love metaphors, so here goes:

Desire and Longing are two strands dependently intertwined together into one continuous skein of yarn.

I’m really digging the idea of Desire and Longing as these two story book characters that fall in love and birth Nostalgia.  Or Desire and Longing as, left leg and right leg.  Or, “Meet my friends, Desire and Longing; they’re in a complicated love triangle with Nostalgia…”  That’d make for a good pseudo late 80s film in black and white.

P.S. I have begun laying down the companion soundtrack for this Stockings piece.  It’s super shoo-bop doo-wop.