I had honestly expected the stripes to be wider - especially since I was knitting a child-sized hat. Never fear! I have another skein percolating in the crockpot right now and I places my lawnchairs even further apart this time to ensure wider stripes.
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I was waiting for the news outlets to make a big deal over the fact that today was the sixth anniversary of 9/11 and am a bit surprised that they have been handling this in a rather low-key fashion. I remember last year watching the CNN coverage from 9/11/01 synched up to real time. It was odd and surreal -because you knew things that will happen that hadn't 'happened' yet in the news cast and you caught all the rumours and misconceptions as they went along.
At work today we broke into a somewhat spontaneous "Where were you on 9/11?" The group I am with now is not entirely the same group that existed six years ago so there were some new stories to hear. Personally, I was at work in a new job that day. One of the women I worked with had come in late because her daughter had an early morning dentist appointment. She came into the office with a bewildered look on her face and said, "I heard the news as I was parking - they said something about a plane crashing into a high rise in New York City." And so it began.
6 comments:
Love that hat! Nice stripes!
It was a sad day. So glad they are keeping it low key, they need to, out of respect, IMHO.
Very cool hat! And getting cooler to wear it!
I was pregnant--you were too with Willow?
Not quite yet - Willow was conceived about 3 weeks after 9/11. That must have been a scary thing if you were 7 months pregbabt with Chunky!
And apparently I can't spell without another cup of coffee...
I love how the stripes came out. Can't wait to see what you cook up next!
I was in Maui on the last days of vacation. And one of the first planes to leave Maui for the main land. People joke about how "horrible" to be stuck in Hawaii...but seeing the many New Yorkers on the phone calling home, the air craft carriers in Pearl Harbor and the general shock that blanketed the island, all you wanted to do...is go home.
I was in a park and ride bus on my way to work and heard it on the radio.
I think it is amazing the way yarn makes those stripes. If only my quilting fabric would do that...
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