Charity knitting links

Working on my square still. (Six-and-a-half inches, yay?)

I had one stitch being a pain in the ass, and as I was struggling with it, I twisted my goddamn wrist. OH HOLY FUCK, that hurt. I've been having more trouble with my wrists too, so am not happy. (I would blame it on being online more, but this slight flare actually seems to pre-date my extra internet time.)

Remind me NOT to do that again. If a stitch isn't cooperating, I need to stop and regroup.

Seriously, I've done this more than once. Ow, ow, ow. I've been warned I have some HEAVY work shifts coming up in August, so the last thing I need is to seriously re-injure my wrists. *sigh*


In other news, I discovered this through a link listed in one of my mom's knitting magazines, and it's quite cute (it's for children):

The Good Scarf Project

Evidently inspired by this kid's book: Knitting Nell. Which looks like a good book to add to any list of inoffensive, positive children's books.

(I myself was raised on a fairly steady diet of "positive theme!" children's books and educational software, and consider myself not-much the worse for it - I did manage to miss a few classic films, apparently, but oh well. Also, I did sneak some DOOM in there, but nothing's perfect.)

Following links, I took note of this book on Amazon: Knitting For Peace. Weird, because I recognize nearly all the other books in the, "Customers who bought this book also bought..." section from my mother's collection, but not this one. Does she not have it? I'll have to ask.

Also, for anyone who knits but hasn't seen these communities, or who may become vaguely interested over the coming weeks as I occasionally ramble about it:

knitforcharity
knitforchange
craft_for_cause
Edited to add: knit_for_peace

...Because really, unless you have a child that's still too young to protest being shoved into whatever you make it (intending no disrespect to anyone, but I REMEMBER this indignity - awwww, MOM!), then what ELSE would you knit for besides charity?

(Well, I guess there's just because you like it. But still, I don't really know what my mother's going to DO with all those socks.)