Memorial Day Thoughts

Every year I think about all those who wore our country's uniform in a time of war without even the opportunity to vote. Black people. Women. And all those who served while hated. Black people. Women. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender people. All who survived came home to a country mostly hostile to their dreams and lives. I want to remember them and memorialize them not because their service mattered more, but because their service was often invisible. Before women were allowed to serve in the military, many did so dressed as men, as far back as the Revolutionary war, and Black people fighting both for and against the colonies is well-documented. The earliest recorded Queer person also fought against the British during the Revolutionary war.

So here's to all who gave their lives the hope of Democracy knowing they would never get their own slice of American Pie.

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"A tip of the hat to the 637,000 who died in the Civil War - though there was little civil about it. And yet, 150 years later, the roots of that conflict - racism, exploitation of human labor, the denial of the common good and the state vs. the federal government - continue to send their poisonous shoots out of the dank earth. We memorialize the war dead but seem not to learn the lesson." ~Loren Niemi

Knitting Resources

Just want to keep this blog post for me to save knitting resources I want to keep.


Kate Davies has a post about reinforcing a steek with crochet. I think I did it wrong the last time I did it. Boo me.

Another video on hand stitching a steek reinforcement.

Thumb trick, basically an "afterthought" thumb.

Alphabet charts!

Tips on doing a jogless join

Two-stitch i-cord edge

Binding off for a neat and easy-to-pick-up neckline

Picking up stitches

Knitting together five stitches (or more or less) easily

Simple hat calculator

Joining yarn without ends

Middle Class Standard Time [MST]

Here's a great piece on Middle Class Standard Time. It's also very white.

In my experience, people of color and working class people of all races value relationships over both time and achievements.