I'm Lutheran - "Catholic light" - and this was my Pope as well. A man of the people, and as you say, trying to do human as best they can.

I knitted several in 2016 for the Woman's March on DC. I supposed I'll need to bring it out again!

She used it for political purposes - they were using it to plan a battle plan. A little bit of a difference there!

As an American, I urge you to not shop on Amazon. It will come for your small shops, department stores and everything else. We are in a mess here in the US - we won't recover in my lifetime, but not using Amazon is one small step you can take to not join us in this catastrophe!

I can crochet, but I mostly knit. I don't think of myself as an artist . . . I just like to make things that people will like and use.

I tried several ways to do a provisional cast on, and finally, with the help of a YouTube, I got it. It. I don't think it's very hard at all. But then I crochet and knit, so maybe that's why.