Anything Knitted and Crocheted: EPBOT: Geek Girls, ACTIVATE!!

Anything Knitted and Crocheted

Welcome to my blog. I hope to blog about my knitting and crocheting as well as everyday life. The patterns that I post are original and as such there is copyright on them. When they are based on another pattern there is a link to the pattern.

My husband and I adopted a beautiful dog named Leo. He is a dachshund and absolutely adorable! we adopted him on June 23, 2010 and he has become the love of our lives.

I love to share patterns that I find along the way or to talk about some of the neatest designers that are out there today, so I love to post links to the designs or the designers.

So grab a cup a and sit and enjoy the blog.

Cora

Friday, November 19, 2010

EPBOT: Geek Girls, ACTIVATE!!

I had to share this story about a young 1st grader who got teased for carrying a Star Wars Water bottle to school. Please read more here. EPBOT: Geek Girls, ACTIVATE!! you leave a comment that will get passed onto Katie (the young girl in the story.

I love this quote from Yoda...

Yoda said "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering"
(This is the original post: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/portrait_of_an_adoption/2010/11/katie-the-star-wars-girl-part-2.html#ixzz15lUOtElD)

Truer words have never been spoke.

Not sure which water bottle is in question as there are so many out there. These are just some of the ones I found:

Not sure why there would such an issue over a water bottle. We need to encourage our children to be the people they were meant to be. Bullying doesn't help that it makes it worse. This is the second story I have seen in less than a month on this. It needs to stop!

It can be found here: http://nerdyapplebottom.com/2010/11/02/my-son-is-gay/ wow some of the comments were way off base here from the other mothers. So here is a 5 yr old boy who loves Scooby Doo. I personally think he ROCKED the costume and so what if he chose to dress up as Daphne? It is a crazy world that we live in right now and our children are the ones who have to deal with it.

So whether it is a young girl who loves Star Wars or a young man who decides to dress up as Daphne...GET OVER IT, people! They are kids who should be able to be themselves.

Cora

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The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge

The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge - A requirement for all Knitting Scouts, the recipient must do his or her bit to present knitting in a positive light, whilst at the same time avoiding all references to “hipness”, grandmothers, and yoga.

I’m always doing my part in this arena whether it’s spoken or written like in this blog. I teach at my local community league, which was a fluke. I am involved in the Alberta Avenue Initiative and was asked to teach both knitting and crochet. I start with dishcloths as it gives the basics.

The “MacGyver” Badge (Level One) - The recipient must demonstrate clever use of a non-knitting tool in a knitting-related scenario. For instance, recipient has used paper clips as stitch markers, or successfully whittled and then utilized bamboo skewers as dpns.

I’ve used all kinds of things as stitch markers when none were available, and have found clever ways of knitting cables without cable needles using skewers.