Dulaan Project - Completed!

Three hats are packed up and ready to go out in the mail today! Soon they will be helping three kids in Mongolia stay warm. Before I send them off, a few photos, with Liam as model once again...

No Photos today..... but inspiration


I was all ready to post with photos of the latest hat for the Dulaan Project - but it seems a certain person who may be my husband has left home with the USB cable. So I am sitting here with a camera filled with lovely shots but no way to transfer them. I'll have to add them tonight!
I was amused to discover that the colour for Project Spectrum this month is green. The most recent hat is green as is the third, presently on the needles. When I saw this I signed up for Project Spectrum - it seems I was already on board without realizing it.

Yesterday I saw something amazing and inspiring. I turned on Oprah for the first time in ages. It was the last part of the show and Oprah was introducing a performance by Sarah McLachlan. She has made a video with 15-dollars and donated the rest of the 150-thousand dollars it normally takes to make a video to help people around the world: paying children's school fees in Africa, buying widows' freedom in Afghanistan, schooling former child soldiers, the list goes on.
I was so moved by the video, by McLachlan's quietly strong performance and by what she had accomplished with one idea and a strong will.

There are so many needs out there in the world it's overwhelming sometimes. I wonder, what can I do, I'm so busy raising my kids, doing the everyday tasks we all do to keep our home and family functioning, working. It's important to be reminded how important it is to do what we can, even such small things as knitting hats and blankets for people who really need them, or giving what we can spare to the people on the frontlines of such organizations such as Medecins Sans Frontieres and ChildHaven and a host of others. Okay, enough. I'll stop now. Go watch the video and be inspired!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!!

To all the mothers, sisters, knitters, especially to my very own mother -- the best in the world. Really.

Dulaan Project
I have just finished my first hat for the Dulaan Project. In my tour of several knitting blogs the other dayI found my way to Mossy Cottage Knits and read about Ryan's goal to receive knit contributions to the Dulaan project from knitters in every American state and Canadian territory and province. I'm happy to put Quebec on the map and I'm sure I won't be the only one. I've also sent out a few emails to knitters in Yukon and North West Territories. I'll have to search a little more for Nunavut but I know you Northern knitters are out there and are just waiting for the opportunity to knit something warm and lovely for children in Mongolia. Make sure to visit the Mossy cottage site for photos of the kids in their sweaters, hats and scarves!

Here's the hat I knit up this week, modeled by my two boys.

I doubled super soft single-ply Merino to make it extra warm. It also made it extra fast to knit on larger needles. I just have to block it then cast on the next Dulaan hat!

If you decide to join the Dulaan Project please let me know.

The dream is over for another year. My beloved Montreal Canadiens lost a heartbreaker in overtime after dominating the match. There's nothing left to do but start going to the gym again in the evenings and pay more attention to my fingers as I knit. I was too nervous during the game to knit a single stitch - not one! Sigh. What am I supposed to do now? Cheer for Calgary? Edmonton? Ottawa?

Okay, I'm getting really nervous. It's four-hours to game time. Game 6. We must win. Come on knitters of the world, think of the glorious Montreal Canadiens while you are creating beautiful things. Maybe knit with red white or blue yarn tonight to give the Habs strength, courage and determination. Go Habs Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!