Can you be of assistance?

Hey, are you looking for a wonderful place to donate items for young children and mothers? A dear friend, Carol Leo, Director of The Homeless Outreach, Inc. has a worthy organization. Toys, handknit gloves, hats and scarves (all ages), and good used clothing would be greatly appreciated! Please go check out the site. Your heart will be glad! There will be an event on December 16, 2007 so, here is a great opportunity to lend a hand where you can!

The shape of things to come

I am knitting a blanket for a friend's housewarming. In July. It's almost December. I just thought I would have it done, but man, when did summer become winter? You know, it seems the older that I get, the quicker time begins to fly. Anywho, That blanket is not going to make the deadline, so what do I do? I knit a scarf! I want the scarf to say, "dear friend, I am working at a snails pace while time is running a hare ahead, so here is a scarf which I hope will smooth over the fact that you will probably not receive this blanket until late winter/early spring. Enjoy." Do you think that he will agree:



The odd background is a divider I found at an antiques place years ago. The scarf was knitted with approx. 2 skeins of Noro Silk Garden using the multi-directional scarf pattern. It's funny how a pattern seems difficult and then one day, I pick it up and begin knitting without a thought. When I encounter a problem, I look it over, troubleshoot, frog it and re-knit. No fuss, no muss. Growth is a funny thing. It just happens.



Glory!

The season for sharing and caring

I was doing my blog crawl and went to over to Linda's blog and found out about this great organization, one at a time ministries. I don't want to go into great detail here because I want you to go over to Linda's blog and find out how she became involved, who benefits from OAAT, and generally how we (you and I) can help. What I will say: we can all knit something small and send it over. I don't know about you, but I have at least one scarf, hat or washcloth even that I thought about giving to some relative and realized they would in no way appreciate the time, effort and thought that went into the gift. So, guess what? The recipients would not only appreciate it, they'd certainly put it to use.

By the by, I am knitting. The ever increasing log cabin blanket and now a multi-directional scarf. I had it on my to-do list for a year now, so I thought it should become one of my end of year enders. I will post as soon as I get some batteries for the camera. Until then . . . knit, flick, pick and throw with reckless abandon!