Free Time=Yarn
All this free time . . . what is a girl to do?
Oh, right:
That's to make Via Diagonale as a thank-you present for my advisor. I went with Cascade Superwash instead of cotton, because it's going to have to be a pretty quick knit, and I didn't want to deal with hurty hands. Luckily M is in LA for 10 days so I should be able to get in plenty of uninterrupted knitting time before he gets back. (Oooh, did I say luckily? I meant, um, sadly. Hi honey! Miss you! Toodles!)
So I went to the yarn shop with a purpose--that being the above yarn--but then while I was there I was overcome with a fit of self-indulgence and also got this:
Hmm, a little Mango Moon Recycled Sari Yarn. What? It was by the register. Also, it is a Good Deed to buy this yarn, because it supports charity. Which I am such a self-deluder about, by the way, like, Hey, your yarn supports a hard-working women's co-operative in Nepal? Here--have a zillion of the American dollars. It's for charity! And nothing at all to do with my selfish American consumerism!
Anyhoo, I think I am going to make a summery little bag out of that.
Meanwhile, y'all should truck over to see Anna's amazing creation, Sally. It is allegedly her first design, but I think she has been practicing in secret or something because you would swear that it was out of a Rowan mag. The i-cord! The ruffles! The matching stripes! I'm in awe.
Oh, right:
That's to make Via Diagonale as a thank-you present for my advisor. I went with Cascade Superwash instead of cotton, because it's going to have to be a pretty quick knit, and I didn't want to deal with hurty hands. Luckily M is in LA for 10 days so I should be able to get in plenty of uninterrupted knitting time before he gets back. (Oooh, did I say luckily? I meant, um, sadly. Hi honey! Miss you! Toodles!)
So I went to the yarn shop with a purpose--that being the above yarn--but then while I was there I was overcome with a fit of self-indulgence and also got this:
Hmm, a little Mango Moon Recycled Sari Yarn. What? It was by the register. Also, it is a Good Deed to buy this yarn, because it supports charity. Which I am such a self-deluder about, by the way, like, Hey, your yarn supports a hard-working women's co-operative in Nepal? Here--have a zillion of the American dollars. It's for charity! And nothing at all to do with my selfish American consumerism!
Anyhoo, I think I am going to make a summery little bag out of that.
Meanwhile, y'all should truck over to see Anna's amazing creation, Sally. It is allegedly her first design, but I think she has been practicing in secret or something because you would swear that it was out of a Rowan mag. The i-cord! The ruffles! The matching stripes! I'm in awe.
posted by Ashley at 11:13 PM
3 Comments:
isn't it great when you can buy delicious stuff and know that you are really doing a good deed by doing it? i found our local grocery store is now stocking fair trade chocolate cake. Of course I bought one, and we ate it all up, because if it's a good deed to buy chocolate cake today, surely an equally good deed to buy another one tomorrow? its even better than saving money by buying items that are reduced.
So... free time means your dissertation is done?
Yay, you!! You *totally* deserve some charitable donations!
Love the yarn...the colors in that recycled Sari are gorgeous. I agree that Sally is quite lovely and suspiciously fab for a first design - haha! ;-)
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