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Oct. 7th, 2009 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruLately I've really taken to listening to the podcast Cast On when doing work in the herbarium. It's a fun podcast to listen to, full of interesting music and knittery. Yes, folks, there is such thing as a knitting podcast. :p It's been a really great companion while I work my way through my specimens.
The most recent back-issue episode I listened to mentioned something called The Dulaan Project, in which knitted things are made and donated to people in need in Mongolia. I have to admit, I'm intrigued by the idea. Maybe it's all the georeferencing I'm doing, and the occasional moment when the program I use burps and plops my point in the middle of Paraguay instead of Pennsylvania, but I've been becoming more aware of how the world is simultaneously large and small. Mongolia may be on the other side of the world, but on a slightly more cosmic scale, it's not that far away. Either way, it got me thinking. And I've been looking for something to do with certain neglected balls of yarn in my stash, so I thought it might be nice to use it for something charitable. This, I think, might be a good one to use it on.
And it sounds like they're looking for anything warm, so I think it would probably be pretty easy to knit up a simple scarf or two for the project. Since I know there's at least a few knitters and crocheters amongst all ya'lls on my friends list, does this interest anyone else? I was thinking it might be fun to put together a package to send to the project. And since things would need to get there before July 1 of next year, that would give us plenty of time to make a few things and send them off in one big happy package.
Thoughts?
The most recent back-issue episode I listened to mentioned something called The Dulaan Project, in which knitted things are made and donated to people in need in Mongolia. I have to admit, I'm intrigued by the idea. Maybe it's all the georeferencing I'm doing, and the occasional moment when the program I use burps and plops my point in the middle of Paraguay instead of Pennsylvania, but I've been becoming more aware of how the world is simultaneously large and small. Mongolia may be on the other side of the world, but on a slightly more cosmic scale, it's not that far away. Either way, it got me thinking. And I've been looking for something to do with certain neglected balls of yarn in my stash, so I thought it might be nice to use it for something charitable. This, I think, might be a good one to use it on.
And it sounds like they're looking for anything warm, so I think it would probably be pretty easy to knit up a simple scarf or two for the project. Since I know there's at least a few knitters and crocheters amongst all ya'lls on my friends list, does this interest anyone else? I was thinking it might be fun to put together a package to send to the project. And since things would need to get there before July 1 of next year, that would give us plenty of time to make a few things and send them off in one big happy package.
Thoughts?