a basket-weave hat and a patricipatory democracy

This basket-weave hat has spent most of its life post-knitting needles on my head. It's the first hat I've ever made for myself and I'm pretty into it. It took me a couple of weeks to make (it would have taken longer if it weren't for Jill as well as the women at NW Handspun Yarn). It's an easy pattern, but I'm still pretty new to serious knitting. I've known how to kit for about five years, but haven't made much more than drop-knit scarves for Christmas presents. It's too bad that I'm just now getting so excited about knitting, seeing as the sun is just starting to show its face around these parts. Oh well. I guess I can just spend the summer working on gloves and socks.

Or maybe I'll put knitting with yarn on hold for awhile and dive head first into crocheting with plastic bags. (I tried knitting with plastic bags and it stretched the plastic out too much. Crocheting doesn't manipulate the plastic as much, so I'm going with that instead.) I'm really looking forward to finishing my first plastic bag tote! Hopefully I can distribute them and collect donations for this really cool thing my friends and I are doing...What's that, you ask? We're writing a petition to implement a plastic bag fee in Bellingham! It's been really fun and challenging. I think it's going to be really fun once we start collecting signatures...and a whole lot more challenging, but I'm ready for it.