Pete and I are having a knitting race. I need to finish a cabled scarf by the end of May as it’s for my Dad’s 70th and Pete needs to finish his scarf so Arsene Wenger can wear it. As an added challenge I need to write the scarf up as a pattern for p/hop.

There will be more on this next week so watch this space. There would be more on it today but Pete has left his knitting at home. Bad Pete.

Here he is back in January with his scarf, I think he’s knit about 2cm more since then. I can’t give him too much grief as I’ve been working on my scarf since April 2009.

I think Pete thinks us knitters get everything finished quickly so if you have something that is taking forever please join in. The more the merrier. Let us know about your WIP (Work In Progress) that is taking forever in the comments or over on Ravelry.

Happy (slow) Knitting.

A little while ago, the people at Sony made a donation to MSF’s work. This in itself is not interesting to you of course (although very generous on their part). The point is that at the same time they donated a Sony mp3 player for us to do with as we wish (as long as it raises funds of course).

When I heard this, I snuck, ninja-like, into the fundraising department and liberated the little machine for you p/hoppers! Obviously, you can’t knit with it, but it’s great if you want to listen to your favourite Elton John/Meatloaf/Leon Lewis/Richard Cheese (delete as appropriate) album while your needles fly on that latest p/hop pattern…

What do you need to do? Well, nothing really. Basically, anyone that makes a p/hop donation on justgiving in the next two weeks (before 3rd May) will be added into the pot and then a name will be drawn at random. So basically, if you downloaded a pattern or you p/hopped some yarn or even if you just meant to donate out of pure good-heartedness and haven’t got round to it yet, do it soon because you have to be in it to win it.

By the way, I don’t know a huge amount about mp3 players, but what hi-fi say it’s “the best non-Apple ultra-portable we’ve seen”, so it must be a good one. Click here for the model and details. It’s a silvery coloured one…

Good luck!

Hi all, just a quick post. I know a lot of you p/hoppers and knitters wrote messages of support to the people of Eastern Congo as part of the Condition: Critical project. Well, we said we would deliver these messages to Congo and this video is the first of the messages getting there. Thought you might like to see it.

For me personally, it’s really great to see. The stories that came out of Congo during the project were very personal and touching. When we asked people to write messages that we could take to Congo to show that people were listening to their stories and thinking of them, the response was amazing. Delivering the messages is the last part of the project and being able to see the reactions from local people was really important.

Thanks for supporting the project and MSF, guys!