In what can only be described as a moment of insanity, I told my writing seminar students that I would also do a project for our final course assignment.

In previous years, the creative assignment in my seminars involved only creative writing. This time, inspired by Andi’s beautiful project on Moby-Dick]1, I’ve decided it’s high time to open it up to other forms of expression.

I used the Blank Slate Doll pattern for the head and improvised from there.

The hair was especially fiddly. I left the hair closest to the face longer and tried to tie it into a bun at the nape of ED’s tiny neck, but in the end I had to knit a small hair net so as to catch it all.

I embroidered some shoes on her feet and knitted her a small triangular shawl out of a bit of Kidsilk Haze.

The book in her hands is supposed to be like the ones ED made as gifts for her friends (every page has one word from “This is my letter to the World”). The book is fastened to her hands with a long pin I had from the corsage at Jon and Brigitte’s wedding.

And the red crochet, um, tangle is supposed to be a Northern Cardinal. I would have made a robin if I could handle working with two colors at this small scale.