{"id":8219,"date":"2012-06-09T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:02:28","slug":"dragon-skin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another knitting stitch name in the post Found Poetry is “Dragon Skin.” It’s a stitch that I have always liked even though it’s meant to look like the scales of a reptile.<\/p>\n

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\nHere is my photo take of the stitch.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s actually the roof of the Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here’s the inside of the dragon.<\/p>\n

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\nI was actually at the auditorium yesterday for my son’s graduation from OCAD – Ontario College of Art and Design which is now a university so he was there to receive his Bachelor of Fine Art degree along with about 300 other students.  It was really an awesome occasion.<\/p>\n

Dragons are all about good luck and success, power and achievement. It’s a fitting metaphor for a graduation and it all started with a knitting stitch, a very powerful knitting stitch.<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t resist carrying out the dragon metaphor with this short video of an art installation in the grounds adjacent to the hall. It’s a grouping of windsocks, but with a little imagination they could be flames from the dragon’s mouth.<\/p>\n

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(BTW I liked the way the windsocks paid tribute to the city worker.)<\/p>\n

and in the belly of the beast 300 grads were on fire.<\/p>\n

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\nHave a brilliant day!!<\/p>\n

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