Sweater before changing waistband and before washing. Photos by Jo deVries
This months’ blog post is a follow-up to last November’s Knitting with Natural Fibres. Most autumns, I start planning at least one knitting project. Knitting makes my long winters in Ontario, Canada, pass more pleasurably. It also produces a warm garment that keeps me cozy and happy while knitting it.
I usually start by looking through my inventory, to see if anything catches my interest. My yarn collection was severely depleted three years ago when I went on a knitting spree. I tackled all my unfinished projects that had accumulated, and knit up of bunch of odds and ends for gifts. What a great feeling to complete that task! The result: three sweaters, a headband, two pairs of bed socks, and at least six sets of wrist warmers.
is going out. but she s coming in on this note of a shutdown. let s talk about, yes, we ve talked about the political parties. you know who s really paying the price? it s people around the country. people in the coast guard who thought they were getting paid on monday and are not going to get paid on monday. we went around and talked to some folks around the country. here is the actual impact for some people in places other than here in washington. not a creature s been stirring since saturday in the empty hallways of washington but virginia, free knitting lessons for furloughed government workers. it s out of your hands. until it s back in my hands, i ll put something else in my hands and go with it from there. reporter: in kentucky, a plate of barbecue on the house. we re feeding all the government employees until they go back to work. however long it lasts. reporter: in california, frustration for nicole, whose husband is in the coast guard and won t be getting his regularl
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you know, keep our family intact. it s a burden enough, a strong enough job, big enough job that you have. one of the things the president said, and i want you to listen to this, it s not just about the government shutdown, because this lasted for three days but the possibility of defaulting on our debt on our loans. here s how he says this is coming, this is looming, this is next. in a government shutdown social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown if we don t raise the debt ceiling, they don t go out on time. in a got shutdown, disability benefits arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don t. in a government shutdown, millions of americans, not just federal workers, everybody faces real economic hardship. if we default on our loans, what does that mean for you? it means uncertainty. about means i don t have a
concession of not raising debt ceiling? what are they asking for now from leadership? if i can add a rider to that, why are they so powerful? reporter: the reason they are so powerful is because they are well, let me answer the first question from suzanne first of what they want. one of the congressmen was actually quoted saying that they don t really know what they want and that is part of the problem. many of them come from extremely conservative districts and they re getting phone calls from their conservatives say, go, go, go, keep it going, shut it down, and that s the kind of feedback they re getting. it s not the what s going on with you guys in washington. and that s what makes them so powerful because they re getting that advice or those applause from their constituents back home. the other thing that make them powerful they re a hefty part of the republican party and they are being egged on by ted cruz