Track 1 of the single Wool and Patience / Frost on the Rhubarb · 2025
Wool and Patience
by Marigold Tan
“I taught myself to knit during a slow, grey stretch of weeks, and it turned out to be the best lesson in patience I've had. This is the song for anyone making something warm, one stitch at a time.”
folk-pop · cosy folk · singalong pop · 3:02
Lyrics
I cast on forty stitches by the window in the grey A ball of rust-red wool and a slow November day My needles click like raindrops on the sill I drop one, and I find it, and I'm learning to be still It won't be done by morning It won't be done by spring Knit one, purl one, take it slow Wool and patience, row by row Every crooked stitch is mine to keep A scarf for the cold, and a little for sleep My neighbour taught me cables with a cup of milky tea She said, "Don't mind the mistakes, dear, they are part of what you see" So I let the edges wander and the colours run a bit It's a lopsided kind of lovely, and I'm learning to love it It won't be done by morning It won't be done by spring Knit one, purl one, take it slow Wool and patience, row by row Every crooked stitch is mine to keep A scarf for the cold, and a little for sleep Maybe all the mending, and the making, and the care Is just a way of saying, I was thinking of you there Loop by loop, I'm wrapping up the hours Winter will be softer, wrapped in ours Now the scarf is long enough to wind around us twice Uneven at the ends, but it is warm, and it is nice I'll hang it by the doorway where the winter wind comes through And whoever needs it first, well, I made it just for you Knit one, purl one, take it slow Wool and patience, row by row Every crooked stitch is mine to keep A scarf for the cold, and a little for sleep Wool and patience, row by row Wool and patience, let it go slow