warm hands, cold heart

so i finished my first pair of knitted hand/wrist warmers today. small step for humankind, but a huge leap for me. tried to do something with a pattern this time & what could be better than to start off with the classic venus/feminist symbol?

it might not be the most neat knitting in the world, but i'm still learning... i found the pattern for the symbol at subversive knitting & then just sort of made the rest up. it was pretty easy & fast, good for a newbie like me. if i could, i would give you the pattern here but i actually don't know how to write out knitting patterns... they start with six rows knit 2, purl 2 (bottom) & end with four rows of the same, otherwise it's just plain knitting with two different colors & then sewing the two sides together & leaving a whole for the thumb. when you put them on it looks something like this (yes, it is very tricky to photograph your own hands):

just trash, me & you/it's in everything we do

first: a hasty birthday gift for a friend, featuring his favorite quote from tom waits' tango till they're sore. no, you don't get any close ups since i finished it while being absurdly hung over, which made the stitches not so neat...

second: my friend victor (who might actually be the smartest guy i know) is now a contributor at everydaytrash, a blog about... well, trash. what is it? what do we do with it? how can we use/reuse all the stuff we throw away on a daily basis? & what happens to the trash that we do throw away? check it out.