I’m busy working on the prototype for my first knitting kit, so there’s no photo of it yet, but I decided to work on the packaging and I’m rather pleased with what I came up with.
The kit will be for a triangular knit lace shawl, and the primary design feature will be repeats of a Brigid’s Cross pattern that I worked out.
In case you’re wondering, Brigid is fairly important to me. She’s my patron deity whose influence I strive to manifest in the world. Brigid is my chosen middle name. Moreover, Kildare Yarns is named for Kildare Abbey in Ireland, where monks and nuns were said to have held equal status, and where an illuminated manuscript might have once existed which rivalled the famous Book of Kells.
An Irish legend tells of how Brigid was “accidentally” made a bishop. I believe it’s likely that she legitimately was a bishop. You see, the Church in Ireland at the time was not as obedient to the Church in Rome as the latter would have liked. There were many letters from Rome to Ireland reminding them to stop ordaining women as priests. Considering the great influence Brigid had, it’s not hard to imagine her earning the status of bishop the normal way, by first becoming a priestess.