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| She's done it again... |
| 01.23.06 (8:20 am) [edit] |
The Yarn Harlot (my current and long time knitting hero) has managed to take a cute little idea and turn it into an international personal challenge.
She's in the middle (with some helpers) of organizing a list of participants in the first (quad?)annual Knitting Olympics.
I have a feeling that she's still reeling from the response she's gotten :). Last time I checked it was up to 864 participants and that was no where near the over 1000 comments she'd gotten on the two posts regarding this event that I've read.
So just as soon as I figure out how the buttons for the Knitting Olympics and Team Canada will be on my sidebars.
For now, my event is a lace shawl in a kidmohair. The premise, challenge yourself with something that you will cast on at a preset time (to accomodate the timezones) and finish by the extinguishing of the flame. I've done lace, and years ago, worked with mohair, however the two together are not something I've yet attempted.
My 9 yo has also decided to rise to the challenge and will be knitting a Learn to Knit Poncho from Bernat.
Gotta dash, more details to come.
tRu
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| Who is theREALunicorn? |
| 01.19.06 (5:50 pm) [edit] |
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It's come to mind lately, that I probably should explain where this name came from. Names are very important to me, as I believe they do a lot more than denote someone. I believe they also create someone into who the name says they should be.
I've enjoyed the idea and ideal of THE UNICORN for a very long time. Probably from childhood; but my earliest recollection is from age 14 or so. I joined a writing club in the Western Producer (a weekly farming paper popular with...well farmers of which my dad was one) The club was called the Young Co-operatives and we were encouraged to choose a pseudonym. I chose Unicorn. Imagine my chagrin when some 20 years later I showed up online and found that I would have to be unicorn7438920 or some other ungodly number.
I fiddled around with this and eventually became theREALunicorn on Spiritwars www.spiritwars.com (great game go... play... them tRu sent you ;) ).
Which ended up shortened to tRu as it was impressed upon me that theREALunicorn was just too much to type to send me private messages in the chat room o.O
Anyway, back to the why of Unicorn (the real one or otherwise). There's any number of legends and folk lore and fantasy stuff (Elizabeth Scarborough's Song of Sorcery, The Unicorn Creed and uh oh... blanking on the last two or is it three books... anyway those...) and I grabbed a little here and little there. Ignoring the stuff that didn't jibe with my feelings about this ideal of a unicorn.
Eventually over time I've created my own tale of fantasy and unicorns have a prominent position in the story. I see unicorns as mythical beasts as well as achievable standards. I see them as altruistic, keepers of faith, fair minded, empathetic, possibly sympathetic at times, maybe even sometimes gullible so intent on believing in the good of the moment.
I strive to be a real unicorn in my life. I prefer to govern myself instead of trying to live within the constraints of an organized religion. That doesn't mean I run around skyclad ;) but it does mean that I question, instead of accepting blindly. Except for, you know, the times when that's all you can do is accept blindly and place yourself in someone else's hands.
Maybe I'll elaborate more on this another day.
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