Good News + Miscellany

How about starting to knit again, Saz, my friend in blogland? Maybe a scarf for people in Mongolia where winter is very intense. Lots of people did it-- coast to coast, Canada, Australia. The Dulaan Project collected 12,085 handknits-- at least one item of clothing or a blanket went to more than 12,000 men, women, and children.  A year's worth of knitting by many little red hens and a few roosters.  Time to begin the 2007 accumulation.

More at Mossy Cottage Knits, Ryan's blog from Seattle.  There's even a tiny photo of little Mongolian children as they wear the latest shipment.  I could swear the brown and orange hat is the one Ron knit.   Of course, it could be someone else's very original color combo. 

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Emaile from my friend, Steve Hill, "... recently found good news about New Orleans:  http://www.justiceclothing.com/thereis/justice/kgordon where
I ordered some shirts made in a unionized factory
that reopened there!  (It's difficult to find ethical
clothing that appears conventional enough for the
office, so this site is handy.)"
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Car radio, somewhere in Massachusetts, "Rent a husband!  For everything from                                               baby to faucets to...."                                                      

Bingham, Maine, Main Street

                  

                        

Updated political banner, Radical Vegan Food, Durham, N.H.

Comments

[Beth]

Naomi,

Thank you for posting about the Dulaan Project. What a great project and this is the first I have heard of such a charity.

I will be happy to participate in the 2007 project and yeah I now have good projects to use up my extra balls of yarn. Maybe a hat like Bill designed for our hosts at camp.

Beth

[Naomi Dagen Bloom]

oh, beth, i am delighted you want to do this. great idea to do one of bill huntington's hats! just finished one i began at end of the retreat. going to get someone to take photo of ron and me in our quirky hats. -naomi

[SAZ aka Susan]

Great idea Naomi and even better I realized I have some Noro scarves (Kureyon and very colorful) I already knitted and put away...those are coming out and going to this project!

I have such a stash of yarn....this sparks my interest.

Thanks.