Kismet, perhaps?
I don’t know, but maybe. This post is quite referential.
A few weeks ago a nice woman (Kerryanne in the Netherlands) added me as a contact in Flickr. Curious, I looked around her photos (she takes quite nice photos) and read her blog. One thing I found was a picture of a flowered granny square that I loved which quickly turned into the new afghan I’m making. I’m nothing if not a sucker for daisies, my favorite flower, so it was no surprise this caught my eye.
She also referenced a project called share a square in the description of that flowered square. This is a particularly great project that you should check out, the brainchild of a woman right here in Texas (Shelly) who’s gathered granny squares from all over the world to make granny square afghans show some love to some kids with cancer. Each afghan will be made of squares from all different people. Now, y’all know that I’m also nothing of not a sucker for a do-gooder project, particularly ones with a lot of heart. So what could I do but sign up?
This isn’t the last time you’ll hear about this project and its details, but for now, I’ll just show you this box of squares I recently got from Shelly. Nice, eh? What I’ve volunteered to do is rim a lot of these in black and then stitching them together to make the afghan. Shelly’s even left me a space to add my own square!
I also volunteered my mother-in-law to put one together, of course, since she’s the woman who taught me to crochet. If there’s time, I’ll do more than one. I like this project.
Just so we can come back around full circle, do you see that purple square peeking out from under the pink square in the picture? [errata: hers is actually the one right on top, the first one I saw when I opened the box, right under the envelope. Where was I looking?]. Guess whose granny square that is? It’s one of Kerryanne’s squares, in fact, the same person who showed me the project in the first place. Of the thousands of squares Shelly’s gathered, I get one of hers!
Quite cool.
Crafting for Charity: Nests
My pick for this week’s charity post was something brought to my attention by a crocheter on ravelry. She asked me about a brim on a hat I made. I rummaged around her projects. And found a nest she had made. A nest? Yep, for this:
Virginia Beach SPCA Wildlife Program – Nests for Young Critters
That’s right, nests for young wildlife to mimic the nests they don’t have for whatever reason. These nests allow the young animals to huddle together and stay cozy and warm like they would in their own nests. It adds to their feeling of security to be bundled up in a cozy soft nest like this.
Jeff calls these “buckets for bunnies.” Finding this was pretty much my total overload for cute, for bunnies, for SPCA programs for the whole week. Bunnies in a knit nest. Wow. I swear, there is no end to the things you can do with some yarn.
I’ve been interviewed!
No kidding! I told Marie of Craft Arsenal that even though I’m a webmaster for a big website and write blogs, I’m still not used to seeing what I write out there on the webernets. It’s so exciting!
Why was I interviewed? Crafting for charity and my Index of Indie, you see. If you read, you can also find out what I do during the day when I’m not blogging & crafting, and my attempt to explain why I do it. I don’t believe I’ve ever hinted where I work before on here … not because I don’t want to, I just don’t really think about it. It’s the title of the blog, isn’t it – it’s Crafter by Night, which by necessity excludes Fundraiser By Day … but the two are not mutually exclusive after all.
The interview is to be found at the Craft Arsenal blog, which was begun, as I understand it, in response to the Southern California fires … Marie, the author, was rather too close to the fires for comfort, and has started an Etsy shop (Witchfire) to bring in funds to help out. She sells donated items and there’s a raffle, too. Verrrry nice!
Marie also runs Marimello, where she posts about craft events and craft-related jobs, plus she keeps a calendar of crafty events which you can add to. Check it out 
