a little red hen

Sahara Briscoe Pauses...

But only momentarily!                                                                                     At the risk of enhancing a persona as glam New York City elder, I offer you my whizzing 70 minutes--three more and it would equal my age--with Sistah Craft, aka, Sahara Briscoe, designer of knit creations, thinker of ideas outside all boxes.

It all started when she popped into Knitty City and showed her latest creation, a herringbone lace shell knit in pale green cotton (pictured on her site).  Would I model it for her?  Never one to pass up a chance for latelife visibility, I agreed.  That's how I ended up doing a quick change in a bathroom at the New York Times where Sahara works on fashion issues.  Fast walk to nearby Bryant Park behind the 42nd Street Library (the one with the lions in front).

Snap, snap.  "Let's ask this guy to take a shot of the two of us."  He agreed.  Pop into the (here's a travel tip, women and men) immaculately clean public bathroom to change back into my own top.  Out again, my turn --wish I had a camera like hers--for this, Sahara in a Condom Amulet from The Collection.  More animated talk about why women of a certain age were in denial about STDs...resistance to becoming familiar with the internet.  Was there a relationship here?  Too much new stuff coming toward us leads to a shutdown?

Detail: Wirecloth with vintage buttons and condom.  Sahara and I ask you to share this with a friend.  Sistah Craft and Donna Druchanas' Knitting for Change are blogs like mine that bring together fiber and politics.  Others?

The two of us imagined a dramatic photo shoot in front of the library lions.  Picture this:  women all ages adorned in Condom Amulets.  Italics are for my dreams; what are yours?

Older Hen Appreciation

"Tell me about this photo," I asked the website designer who ran a yarn shop.  "I'm very proud of the way I captured her eye centered in the chicken wire.... Someone gave me three old hens.  They were not doing well, but they're doing better.  Still lay eggs, sometimes round, sometimes oblong."                 Toby Smischny, Libery, Maine.  (photo is a notecard, used with permission)

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

                  

                        

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