Seed Stitch

A B A B A B Here’s a little ball of yarn my grandmother gave me A Knit and purl, knit and purl, into a boy, into a girl B Grow to a half-known pattern A B Seed-stitch, row-on-row, i find my fingers follow A Trace a double stranded vine, climbing to the next in line, B The makeup of our marrow C#m B A B C#m B Twist and twine, you shall be mine, and then you’ll be your own C#m Carrying seed-purl, in seed purl B C#m coiled and ready to unfurl B A Into a beating heart, knit and purl B A B C#m B A B A I dropped a stitch, i dropped a stitch, a hole that i can’t mend F# E Seed purl scattered on the floor, there is nothing more to be done C#m B A But to unravel, to unravel, unravel and start again B A B A B Here’s a little ball of yarn my grandmother gave me A Knit and purl, knit and purl, into a boy, into a girl Grow to a half-known pattern