Just another knitter

These last few months I've worked to keep the content flowing while not knitting, which means pawing through a decent number of knitting-related news stories. There's a lot of repetition in the types of articles. There's the trend piece, the charity knitting report/solicitation, the local yarn shop closure, and the knitter profile, to name a few.

In my Google-fu experience there's nothing particularly exceptional about the 96-year-old woman who has knit over 400 hats for Native American children. It seems like every city, town, and burg across the globe has at least one of these dedicated knitters. But you know, it's actually very heartening to know that there are so many people quietly working away at efforts like this and whose reward is the satisfaction of doing something worthwhile.

The relative ubiquity of these stories in news search engines doesn't diminish the achievements. If anything, it makes such charitable participation seem more attainable for anyone with the needles, yarn, patience, and generosity.