Monthly Archives: November 2006

If you are looking for short-term charity knitting – please check out the “Red Scarf Project” from the Orphan Foundation of America. From their site:

Love to knit, crochet or know someone who does? Send warmth and encouragement to America’s college-bound foster youth. OFA needs thousands of handmade scarves to put in our Valentine Care Packages to these parentless youth attending college on their own. Your handiwork will truly be the personal touch in these packages and bring students the encouragement they need to move forward and graduate to a brighter future.

Visit the site for guidelines and mailing address. Don’t worry – it’s not due until January – you can do this and brighten someone’s day!!

I’ve finally frogged the Irish Hiking Scarf I was knitting for DH – it was wonderfully soft and beautiful. However, something was wrong with the edges and I just was not happy with it. Plus – he never even noticed it – and I couldn’t get excited about knitting something that was not going to be appreciated and used.

Hats for Charity – I’m 1/2 week ahead of myself!! Yippee! And, if I can cast on two more and get them done by next week at this time….I’ll be 1 week ahead!! 🙂 Yes, I’m pretty proud of myself!!

I’m taking a Beginning Lace class next week at the new local yarn shop – Knitter’s Playground (no website yet). It will be 3 hours next Wednesday. They said we’d need sport or worsted weight yarn to play with and needles that are pointy – something with which we can easily do a k2tog. Maybe this is why I have so much trouble with K2tog sometimes -not pointy enough needles – it would be nice to know it’s not my fault!! 😉 Now to decided if I bring something boring from my own stash or treat myself to new yarn that day? Decisions, decisions. I want to support the shop (and thus keep it around) but it IS December. (sigh)

Purple socks – I tried to knit them last night after I finished this week’s hat at knit night – I got so frustrated with K2tog that it went back in the bag. Maybe I need to pick up some new pointy needles at KnitPicks or maybe THAT’S what I’ll buy myself next week at the new shop!

My friend Theresa changed the name of her blog to Stitches of Grace. You all ought to go visit her – she’s the sweetest!!

I’ve found a few more treasures to share:

• Let’s Knit 2gether – a video podcast that I use bloglines to keep track of and I watch on their site as I do not have the ability to watch videos on my mp3 player.  Most recent episode was on felting – I definitely learned something new!
• Sticks and Strings – a gentleman from Australia – love his accent!
• Librivox – free public-domain audiobooks to listen while I knit.
• Unwound – Only two episodes and I’ve only listened to about 15 mins of first one and I’m loving it!  Check it out!  But be warned – you are going want yarn from South West when you are done listening to it!

Hope you enjoy these new discoveries – I’m off to my water class! 🙂