Last year my knitting group knit bears for http://www.motherbearproject.org/Read more... )

I've had a string of either hitting gauge or hitting close-enough gauge on most of the things I've made recently, so on my most recent charity hat (I hate the word and connotations of "charity", but I don't know what else to call it) I blithely cast on and started knitting, even though it was with a yarn I had never, ever used before. I knit a few ( Read more... )

OK, one good thing about being unemployed is that people have actually been commissioning crafts! now it does not bring in as much money as full-time employment would, but it keeps me off the streets.

I've also been doing some charity crafting too.

( Click here. You know you want to. All the good stuff's behind the cut )