So, I have spent the weekend trying (and subsequently failing) to work out how to get more of my 30 things list ticked off.
While the age-old and invariably idiotic cleaning method of dragging everything out to put away in a more orderly fashion has (as always) been abandoned at the drag everything out stage, I have had a breakthrough on number 14 ‘Learn how to knit’. Yes, my craftiness is outweighed by my complete lack of patience so have never added knitting to the list of crafts I enjoy.
Enter the kick up the arse I need in the form of Save The Children’s ‘Knit One, Save One’ campaign. The idea is that you knit a hat for a newborn as a newborn baby can’t regulate its own body temperature. It loses lots of vital body heat through its head which makes it more prone to pneumonia – a disease which still kills around 2 million children each year. You simply (!?) follow the downloadable pattern on their site and then send it to the charity who will send to mothers and babies in developing countries. The added bonus is that for non-knitters like me they even have a How To Knit guide for beginners on the site too! Now it’s just a matter of buying some wool…
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under Knitting/Crochet.
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I have been feeling particularly down in the dumps this past week or so but you know how sometimes there’s a line in a film that no matter how many times you’ve watched it, or how bad your day has been it still raises a smile? Well, for me at least, one of these has got to be Jack Black’s Barry in High Fidelty on his Cosby sweater rant, so imagine my amusement when I found out that you can bid on your very own original Cosby sweater right here. A snip at $5000 don’t you think 
