starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray….make a hat for a homeless kid, it’ll do your heart good
My stepdaughter gave me this yarn for Mother’s Day earlier this year, and I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I’d have made it into something for her, but she lives in a steamy part of Texas and couldn’t really use anything I’d make. What to do. Turtlegirl got on a sockhead hat jag, and I thought that would be a great use for the yarn. I just didn’t know who I was making it for.
Until one day – can’t remember how, now – I happened upon Dina’s blog, Yarnfest. I think another blogger had mentioned this thing Dina was organizing, and it appealed to me so I followed the links. Dina is organizing the BSD Project, which will give handcrafted items to homeless kids in her area. That has personal resonance for me, so I saw the perfect home for this homeless little hat. Dina, I’ll be dropping this in the mail to you tomorrow or Tuesday.
a hat in search of a home
it's such fun knitting the top of hats!
There are homeless kids everywhere, including your (and my) town. Help the kids where you live, and if you want to donate to Dina’s BSD Project I’m sure she and the kids will welcome your donation.
Two FOs in one day! I’m on a roll!
getting control of my excesses
I don’t know if you’re like this, but I have a very itchy mouse-finger. When I see yarn or tools or patterns I like, click! click! click! Right into the electronic shopping cart. Or the Ravelry queue. More, more, MORE! About a year ago, I realized that I could stem the spending tide by putting things in electronic shopping carts and clicking “save” instead of “check out.” That seemed to do the trick, somehow; it satisfied that momentary craving, and after a while, I didn’t really need whatever it was I’d put in the shopping cart. My Amazon account is like that too.
Now, though, now that I’m in the period between having a stable income and figuring out how to have at least enough of an income, it has a new urgency. Frugal is my new watchword, at least in this interim period.
So last night I went “shopping” in my ravelry account. I looked at the excesses in my queue (though I’m not as bad as some! one raveler has 6,182 projects queued and 20,141 things faved. I’m going to have to unfriend her because when I look at my friends activity page, it’s always flooded by her and we don’t have the same taste). Anyway – long diversion there, sorry – I looked at my 183-item queue and put some real order in it. After I finish the projects on the needles, what do I really want to knit? Really?
I have 10 projects ready to go, matched with yarn that’s already in my stash:
- Austin Hoodie, knit with my porcelain tosh merino light
- Sockhead hat, knit with some cool sock yarn my youngest daughter gave me for mother’s day
- A Noro striped scarf, using some really beautiful and soft Noro I stashed
- Inaugural Sweater, with yarn I bought specifically for it
- and A Very Braidy Cowl, with yarn I got from Kelly when she was destashing
1. madelinetosh, tosh merino light (colorway: porcelain), 2. Regia Galaxy – Jupiter, 3. Noro Silk Garden, colorway 267, 4. Noro Silk Garden, colorway 275, 5. Valley Sheffield, 6. crystal palace merino5 color 9454
And 5 more ready to go after those. There’s something that feels so good about imposing constraints, limits, order.
See? No more wedding talk. 
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