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I have a mound of green yarn and yes, I am Irish (both of Scots-Irish, Protestant and Catholic Irish!), but I'm not preparing for St. Paddy's Day. I'm knitting for the March on Science on April 22nd, Earth Day. Green to me represents Ecology and the Environment and those who want to knit with Green and blue yarn that lends a feeling of the Earth to the march. Or some blue for the seas. I'm knitting my Ecology Hat, a Simple Slouch Hat - Free Pattern in Green.
I'm pressing for more green so we don't have a sea of blue and pink hats. Many scientists expressed on the March for Science board the desire for a new look and not to have another re-do of The Women's March with all pink hats. Many knitters are doing pink brain hats and while cute and funny, I've been trying to encourage the green so there would be a unique look, a more serious tone and it'll still look nice with the pink hats!
I'm knitting hats with other women who have offered for the students of College of The Atlantic who want to march in either Boston or Washington, DC. It's an Ecology focused college voted #1 by The Sierra Club last year as the Greenest college in the US. Message me at ElissaMcGA if you want to join us.
On the reading front, I just finished Deep Dish: A Novel Kindle Edition by Mary Kay Andrews and my main complaint is that it ended! It was so funny and I loved the two main characters, southern chefs fighting for a spot in a top national TV Food Channel. The words would fly and meanwhile they were falling in love. I want to know the rest of the story! Why do romance novels have to end at the happy ending? I think that's one reason I like Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series because their relationships go beyond the romance to tell the rest of the story, into later years. Much more compelling. But yes, this is a comedy and I'm being too serious, but, I liked it and I didn't want the characters to go away!
And I picked up again the fourth book in the Ingrid Skyberg series I started a few weeks ago, Deep Hurt (Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thrillers Book 4) Kindle Edition. The book will probably be as good as the others and the only reason I segued over to the comedy love story above is I needed some laughs with the political situation going on.
I'll have to stash dive to see if I've got any green. I should join you in sending hats to Maine since I'm in Maine! What school are you sending to?
ReplyDeleteCollege of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. If you send me a message through Ravelry, my rav. address is above highlighted in green I can send you the address for the hats. My son's girl is fielding all the requests for hats and the hats themselves. My son will be back from France in March and he can help her then. The notice just went out to students telling them we'd make them a hat if they're going. So, I don't know how many will go to either Boston or Wash. DC. And I suspect many won't make that decision till late. They keep them real busy. So I figure we'll knit, send them on, so there's a pile waiting for willing heads. I expect a lot because it's an Ecology college and they actually teach them to protest! Green Peace is one of their speakers! It's a radical school, but one, in light of recent events we need, these students are our future. Thanks so much. I'll try and get pics of students later for us to enjoy.
DeleteWhat happens after the wedding is way more interesting than what came before!
ReplyDeleteI agree! ;)
DeleteI agree too - the happy ending is only the beginning! I still have the Outlander series on my list. I need to save them for a time I can read the whole lot in a row as I know I will end up so immersed in them. Hope the green/blue knitting goes well. I agree with you that those colours just look more 'serious' than the pink hats.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the support on colors! Yeah, that's the problem, if I can call that if I start re-reading the Outlander series, it just consumes me and that's all I read. But I don't want to read the new ones until I've done the series again. So I found a compromise, I started listening to the series of Outlander o. Audible and you reminded me I need to get the next book. Knitting and listening to the book was great, but I also would stop and read something else. I loved the Scottish accents on Audible.
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