This weekend was Tawana's baby shower, hosted by the lovely Penelope in Something-or-Other Hill in Brooklyn. T'was a lot of fun with tasty food, yummy hot chocolates and even a mini-yarn crawl! My gifts... A burp cloth/wash cloth and a little cotton hat. I have never knitted something so steeped in girlyness in my entire life.
And look! A Snicket! This was finished off in record time on trains and in restaurants. The second has not yet been cast on. Why, you ask?
Because look! A flip top mitten! Made with Cascade 220 bought from Knit Away during the baby shower/yarn crawl and knitted on a very lazy Sunday while recovering from an excess of gin and tonic (ahem). My sister-of-the-midget-hands is not responding to my pleas for measurements (thumb and middle finger to base of palm) and so the project has stalled with one completed mitten. Crappy picture courtesy of the grey Manhattan morning...
And finally (finally!!) while I was looking through my blogs yesterday I came across a plea from Margaux over at TenTenKnits for help knitting "squares" (actually 7" x 9") for a charity blanket to help raise money for the Hoboken Annual Homeless Shelter Benefit.
Have superwash wool, must knit! My very first home on the East Coast was in Hoboken, it's a lovely little town. But after having volunteered at a women's homeless shelter here on the Upper East Side I am keenly aware of a whole subsection of the community that goes largely unnoticed by the general population. Homeless shelters do wonderful work and I am happy to help out in anyway I can. I'll be making a trip over to Hoboken this weekend if anyone else would care to join me, square in hand!
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