Carole in July 2013
Carole in Oct. 2006. She’s holding a poem I wrote for/about her.
rainbow queen (you can really wear this one like a crown!)
red
plaid
yellow & maroon (smaller size)
yellow rainbow
green & blue
pink & lavender rainbow
black & natural
black & natural (same as previous)
quite the pair
maroon & pink; grey & blue
yellow & orange (children’s size)
feline approved (by my cat, Luna)
Carole Wlos is a 67 year old homeless woman in Seattle. She lives with her long-term companion Geraldo in an unheated RV. I’ve known her at least since 2006. She’s quite a colorful person and has had an eventful, hard life. She’s full of wonderful stories that really should be told.
She crochets these very warm, colorful, imaginative hats. There’s so many ways you can wear them! Some are smaller children’s sizes. They all vary in size.
It takes her about 8 solid hours to make one. She sells them for $20-$30 – whatever people can afford.
As you can see, she begs to help support herself and ‘would like to be more independent’ (if she could sell more of these hats.) I think she has a backlog of about a hundred of them. She can make different stuff, too – sweaters, scarves… She’s very talented. She can make stuff to order – as long as she has the yarn to make it with.
I own the red; green & blue; maroon & pink; and of course, the rainbow queen.
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