Considering Leper Bandages
The archives are back, oh frabjous day. As for knitting:
Well, I broke down and swatched and cast on for the vintage Shetland cardigan, and now I feel much better. Should have known I couldn't make it a week without something on the needles.
Today's not the feast day of St. Clare, founder of the Poor Clares, but we're pretending it is, cause my saints' day planner told me it was, so today we're having Chicken Mole, in honor of her when she's being Santa Clara. I'd hate to think that my little family loves her most cause we eat chocolate chicken in her honor, but alas, this might be the case -- a danger in my little Saints at the Dinner Table education program.
She's the patron saint of embroiderers, but I don't know why, since it seems to me that if you're focused on a life of voluntary poverty and serving the disadvantaged you wouldn't be having a lot of time for non-essential textiles.
Much better, one would think, to be spending one's spare time on knitting bandages for lepers (thanks to Ryan for the link). I'm quite attracted to this project. I know I said yesterday I had too much going on, and didn't want to start any more projects, but really. Knitted bandages for lepers -- can be sterilized and reused, and are thereby economical and smart. How can I miss out on that?
In fact, I'm considering organizing a campus-wide Leper Bandages project -- we are after all, dedicated to the Holy Ghost, who surely would rather I was knitting bandages for lepers than vintage Shetland cardigans that I could, to be completely honest, do without.
Yes. We've got a group that meets on Friday afternoons to do needlework (called, surprisingly, "Creating Text(iles),"), and I bet I could get the group to go in on this. Especially since it's mostly graduate students and I am their Graduate Director. Not that I would ever, you know, mention that, or anything.
And then, just think -- someday when I go up for full professor, there it'll be on my resume, under "service" -- which, alas, doesn't count for a whole lot -- Organized University Knitting for Lepers Project.
For sure, it's gonna need a better title.
Well, I broke down and swatched and cast on for the vintage Shetland cardigan, and now I feel much better. Should have known I couldn't make it a week without something on the needles.
Today's not the feast day of St. Clare, founder of the Poor Clares, but we're pretending it is, cause my saints' day planner told me it was, so today we're having Chicken Mole, in honor of her when she's being Santa Clara. I'd hate to think that my little family loves her most cause we eat chocolate chicken in her honor, but alas, this might be the case -- a danger in my little Saints at the Dinner Table education program.
She's the patron saint of embroiderers, but I don't know why, since it seems to me that if you're focused on a life of voluntary poverty and serving the disadvantaged you wouldn't be having a lot of time for non-essential textiles.
Much better, one would think, to be spending one's spare time on knitting bandages for lepers (thanks to Ryan for the link). I'm quite attracted to this project. I know I said yesterday I had too much going on, and didn't want to start any more projects, but really. Knitted bandages for lepers -- can be sterilized and reused, and are thereby economical and smart. How can I miss out on that?
In fact, I'm considering organizing a campus-wide Leper Bandages project -- we are after all, dedicated to the Holy Ghost, who surely would rather I was knitting bandages for lepers than vintage Shetland cardigans that I could, to be completely honest, do without.
Yes. We've got a group that meets on Friday afternoons to do needlework (called, surprisingly, "Creating Text(iles),"), and I bet I could get the group to go in on this. Especially since it's mostly graduate students and I am their Graduate Director. Not that I would ever, you know, mention that, or anything.
And then, just think -- someday when I go up for full professor, there it'll be on my resume, under "service" -- which, alas, doesn't count for a whole lot -- Organized University Knitting for Lepers Project.
For sure, it's gonna need a better title.
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