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The last year was a strange one. It’s been difficult for the most part for many of us. We tried to cope in whatever ways we could in our own limited spaces. One of the strange but good things that happened to me were new friendships. I say strange because I’m slow with new relationships, wary even. And with a lockdown of this enormity, new friends would have been the last thing on my mind.
And yet it happened.
Maybe it was the sameness of the situation wherever we were, maybe it was the desperate need to connect or maybe it was just tentative relationships gaining new ground to forge strong bonds amid all the uncertainty.
This pattern was to release last June and may have been just another collaboration, albeit a beautiful one. But the year had other plans and I gained a friend in the bargain, a pen pal of sorts–Priyanka Champaneri.
Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for The City of Good Death, her first novel.
Along with being a writer, Priyanka is an avid knitter who taught herself to knit from a children’s book when she was 19 and has since amassed a massive neon yarn stash and a constant rotation of WIPs.
So when she asked if we could work together to have a new knit design to coincide with her book release, it was the easiest yes from me. She believes, and I agree with her, that there is so much crossover between readers and knitters that this would be a lovely opportunity to combine the two interests.
You can find Priyanka on Ravelry as priyankaknits or on IG as @priyanka.knits and @priyanka.champaneri.
You can find more details on the pattern page here.