2 posts tagged “board knitting”
I have been board knitting blanket squares for charity for the past few weeks. The day after I posted about this charity project, I hurt my back and had to spend my at-home time flat on my back. I've got a ten done and in the process of being wrapped for mailing, but I'm still knitting. I have some yarn from about ten years ago that I really want to get rid of because I'm tired of looking at it.
Lately, I've been thinking that I need to get back to sewing. It has been ages. I was never very good at customizing clothing to fit me so I long ago stopped that and stuck to quilting and other crafty stuff. My attemps to find new clothing for the summer have left me so utterly frustrated that I am going to have to bite the bullet, haul out the sewing machine that I haven't used in six years, and figure out how to customize patterns to fit my bizarre pear shape. This may or may not actually happen, as I tend to put things off forever. However, my current work wardrobe is so limited that I've worn the same thing twice in the same week. I am such a fashion don't.
Just because they are beautiful and people should have the opportunity to see them, I am including photos of my cats.
For quite some time now, I have been wanting to knit things to give to charity. The thing is, I just want to mail them somewhere. I don't want to have to hunt down who is taking what donations and go there only to find that there is not one there to take the donations. I did donate some things for the Amer Cancer Soc at AC Moore a while back (then later found that all the premie hats were in a different bag and didn't get donated). It's like I want to be giving, but I am not going to give up a certain amount of laziness. Well, I think I found the right thing for me. There are some knitting/crafting blog feeds I check once in a while, including the one at the Authentic Knitting Board site. Last week, I read a post requesting help from the readers to knit 12"x12" squares that can be sewed together into blankets and given to organizations that help abused women and children. The squares get mailed to them and sewn together by volunteers. If anyone wants to sew them toghether, the people who run the site will mail them the squares to sew them up then the full blanket is mailed back to be donated. This is a great way to use up yarn that is leftover from other projects when there isn't enough to make a whole new project. I have organized my leftover but I haven't started knitting. Every time I thought of starting I would think that I should spend that time going through paperwork and seeing what can be tossed and what should be shredded. I am doing spring cleaning.
