Buy a Hunter Cat for a Dollar

I had this really really great plan to show you my almost completed Fake Clapotis. Well, its real name is Diagonal Drop-Stitch Shawl from Vogue Knitting Shawls. I’m knitting it out of Fleece Artist Blue Face DK, which is 100% Bluefaced Leciester. It’s full of lanolin, and is really very soft.

It was turning out beautifully. So why am I showing you this picture?

Because Hunter decided that he really likes bluefaced leciester, and ate two wholes into the shawl. At the very beginning of the shawl. And he managed to eat the holes in such a way that it was impossible to repair. So, I had to rip it and start over.

Don’t worry, the cables and twists really stand out once you drop the stitches, even in the variegated yarn. This pattern is much more fun that Clapotis, which is so boring to knit that I almost died the last time I had to knit it.

So, clearly I need a solution to Hunter’s Yarn Eating Ways. My solution?

A new basket yarn safe! It’s huge, has a liner, and a LID. You’ll notice Hunter is not eating anything, because its safe in the yarn safe! Yay!

In closing, I saw the neatest web site on Frontline/World. it’s Kiva.org, where you can loan businesses in the 3rd world small sums of money. It’s called microlending. Often, a business will only need, say, a 1000 dollars. However, either they can’t get a loan at all, or the loan is very expensive in their country.

However, at Kiva.org, you can loan a business as little as 25 dollars, which as many people do it, add up to the loan amount. Then the business in the 3rd world pays the loan and you can either take your money back out, or reloan it. It’s a really fascinating concept. I have a lender page, although I haven’t done anything interesting to it.