Project: Papoose

The Madelinetosh shipment has just landed from The Web-sters in Ashland, Oregon.

Thanks to Kris for the assistance in helping me choose a little girl appropriate color for Mel Clark's "Papoose" design from her new book "Knitting Gifts for Baby."

This project prompts me to ask: do you know what a "papoose" is?

My kiwi husband wasn't familiar with the term, although I suspect that most Americans would know this Native American term for a baby carrier. Apparently Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, first heard the word in 1643 used by the Narragansett Indians to refer to a child. 

Time for me to get cracking on this particular papoose!