Thursday, September 23, 2010

Killer Characters: Adele Speaks

Adele Speaks
My figure is Adele Abrams and I finally got a prospect at the microphone, so to speak.Finally the opportunity to take up something that has been bothering me for a long time.I go with Molly Pink at Shedd & Royal Books and More and every time I go through the mystery section it makes me wish to have a hissy fit.It`s about Miss Marple and her knitting needles.

f only Agatha Christie had talked to me, I`m certain it would have been Miss Marple and her hooks.The whole head was that Miss Marple was listening to conversations and watching what was passing on about her while she appeared to be caught up in her knitting.It would have been so much easier if she was crocheting.With knitting as her cover, she had to run about a bag of stuff all the time.Not so with crochet.To go with crochet hooks are slow to carry.You can slip them in your bag or purse.Most of them are no larger than a pencil.No pointy tips to dig a hollow in your bag or in you if you find to try to carry knitting needles in your bag and stoop at the wrong time.No motivation to carry bags full of yarn either.All Miss Marple would have required to instantly appear to be occupied with her handiwork, was a wad of string.She could have whipped it out, along with a snare and started making a coaster or a string flower while people about her dropped clues.No clacking needles to swim out any whispers, she was stressful to hear, either.Crochet is stealth.Let`s say Miss Marple was actually making something.Let`s say she was so busy observing the people about her, she wasn`t paying that much care to her handiwork and she made some mistakes.To fix her knitting errors, she`d have to unknit or very carefully take out rows until she took out the error and then so carefully put the stitches back on her needle so all the tiny loops were passing the proper way.It can sometimes go to swearing, which would definitely have blown her back as a sweet little old lady.She would never ruin her fancy with crochet.Crochet works with one stitch at a time.If she made a mistake, she could rip it out with abandon until she got to her error.So, the future time any of you take a Agatha Christie book featuring Miss Marple or you see one of the Mysteries featuring her on PBS, will you do me a favor andthink about what I said?I`m sure you will agree.

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