Do you have A LOT of extra yarn?



I recently tried to crochet something and it was the simplest thing I've ever attempted.  It was so simple -- just one stitch -- that I finished it.  Shall I share now that it looked like the dog's dinner? My tension was all off so it was all kinked up.  I took it to show my niece and sister as if their laying eyes on it would unkink and untwist it.  They suggested that I just undo it and start afresh.  After thinking about it for three days, last night I undid the whole thing and made a rather large ball of yarn.

I was in no mood to start the project afresh so I went to the interwebs and read the NY Times, a favorite method of murdering time.  There was a brief article with animals news of 2017, including donkeys who went to jail for four days in India and white giraffes.  At the bottom was an article about people who crochet blankets for elephants when the weather turns cold and baby rhinos whose mothers have been killed by poachers.  Those are big ass rhino throws which go on to be bedding the rhinos -- something soft in which to get comfy to sleep. But they are needed so if you have many extra balls of yarn and don't mind making ginormous objects that are about eight times normal size, get busy and help a baby rhino.  Or make many smaller throws and sew 'em together.  They don't have to be pretty!  Or maybe just make a scarf and give it to a homeless person.  "I hope you can use it," you can say, and then rush off.

Wow, you are so nice, much nicer than me.

Happy new year!

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