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My chapter of Project Linus is holding its bi-monthly Blanket Day tomorrow, which means that today was a different kind of Laundry and Packing Day: The large, yellow one used a variegated yarn. I forget the name but am pretty sure it involved the… Continue Reading “Blankets 25 – 31, 2012”
Wednesday night at Starbucks, I was sitting next to Christine – who can crochet anything. I asked a lady few chairs over about her yarn, but she didn’t hear me. Christine identified that brand and exact name. I thought that was cool, so I… Continue Reading “Blankets 18 – 24”
Reprinted from my blog on the Glenview Patch: I love to read. My average is at least one book per week, and has been for many years. But when I started making blankets with our local chapter of Project Linus, it really cut into… Continue Reading “One More Thing to Love about My Library”
Friday, my car pretended that she was sick so that she could spend the day with Bill at the garage. Seriously. He heard the noise two days earlier when I asked him to listen, but when there was a whole day with an appointment… Continue Reading “What I Did This Weekend”
Saturday is Blanket Day and I just took this batch downstairs to the laundry: The solid yellow has one of the Red Heart Kids yarns – I forget the name. The lady bug blanket has Red Heart’s Cherry Red. I am so glad I… Continue Reading “Blankets 11 – 17”
I mentioned that I had five volunteer gigs over five days. Here is how it went: Day 1 – The Refuge I arrived after work for my regular night feeding, cleaning and medicating (if necessary) the resident parrots. I found that the daily work… Continue Reading “Day 5”
I have been a total slacker this evening. I meant to write about Librarything vs GoodReads, but kept getting distracted. I have five volunteer gigs in the next five days. That’s my excuse. But since I doubt I’ll be here over the next couple… Continue Reading “The Slacking Before the Storm”
Annette from Catnip and Coffee asked how we prep the fleece for the crochet-edged blankets. Karen and Penny, from my chapter of Project Linus, created a video demonstration: The first half shows how to prepare it and the second half shows how to go… Continue Reading “Prepping Fleece”
Project Linus night at Starbucks is this week, so I figured I’d better log these in and wash them: My problem here (besides the lighting) is that when I wait until I have several blankets completed, I forget the details of the work. The… Continue Reading “Blankets 7 – 10”
Emily Yoffe over at Slate.com posted a piece last week about animal rescue groups. She told a story that I have heard before.. someone wants to “do the right thing” and adopt from a rescue, but is so turned off by the process that… Continue Reading “The Great Rescue Debate”
The Next Dark Age 