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 )

A while ago I got into a political discussion with the owner of the only locally owned yarn store in my town, and she said some pretty objectionable things that made me question whether I felt comfortable supporting the business of someone who felt that way ( Read more... )

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, also known as the Yarn Harlot has created a fundraising effort known as Knitters without borders to raise money for Doctors Without Borders ( Read more... )

My friend Amelia's parents are missionaries in North Africa. North Africa is seeing the largest human migration of our times, as people from all over Africa flow through there in an attempt to reach Europe. They do everything from providing micro-enterprise capital to health care to stuff as mundane as giving blankets to people who are forced to ( Read more... )

This is whatI've been working on all day! (except at lunch when I went to the pizza buffet to celebrate a co-worker's birthday and now I'm suffering from bloat and struggling to keep awake ( Read more... )

Here, I cut and pasted this from the hunger site's newsletter ( Read more... )

something amazing that happened today ( Read more... )