Squares

My Auntie Rose died this morning. Overall, it's very sad, but she was 90 years old (a great aunt, you see), which is a good innings in anyone's book.

Rose was a prolific knitter, and knitted literally hundreds and hundreds of squares, making blankets for lots of different charities... the kind of productivity some of us could only dream of.



Ahh. The humble knitted square. As fancy or as straight up and down as you like. A long bit of string in a great big knot - but don't be fooled, a knitted square might change the world:

Clean water


Back in 2007 iKnit London created a knitted river over 2000 ft long to raise awareness of of Water aid international. See all the photos here Can you see my square? It's in there somewhere...


Curing Cancer

Stitch and Bitch London created a 52ft scarf for London's Lions in Trafalgar Square, raising money for Cancer research.

So where does this leave me? It leaves me knitting some humble little squares, trying to change the world with bits of string.