Karen's Craft Odyssey

This is post #100! Whewwww! In honour of this milestone I thought I’d host a little contest.
We all have stories about knitting (or spinning) in public. When I’m knitting on the bus I usually have socks on the needles. I’ve had several people tell me that their grandmother used to knit socks. [...]

This morning I amused myself by going through the headlines of recent stories on Morning Edition. I listened to the few stories that caught my eye, and call three of them to your attention:

There’s a new reality show called The Hill — starring a real congressman. Sort of a real life West Wing. [...]

I’m recovering from my cold. Betsy and I even made it to Night Owls tonight. I’m glad I didn’t even try to take my spinning wheel. I didn’t get much knitting done. As usual, I spent at least half of my time on various administrative tasks/discussions. Betsy and I had [...]

I seem to be coming down with a cold. Probably picked it up at the Ekka. Oh well, par for the course.
Took it easy tonight — watched a movie I had recorded last night, Casa de los Babys. It was an interesting look at the politics of adopting babies from third world [...]

And guess where I went. The show, of course. That’s right, back to the Ekka to demonstrate spinning. I worked on a natural grey sliver that I’ve had for ages; got one whole bobbin spun. Today was a bit busier than Sunday, and we had more people demonstrating as well. [...]