knitting for africa

With my family's potted colonial history, we have some words in our vocabulary that elicit confused looks in others. If something's particularly fancy, we call it maridadi; we put our clothes in the dhobi basket instead of the laundry, we wear takkies instead of trainers, and we eat naachis instead of satsumas (or clementines, or whatever you like to call them).

If we had anything in abundance, be it hats or bags or carrots, my mum would say "you've got [whatever it was] for Africa". Well, now I'm knitting for Africa as part of the Knit A Square project that Jigsaw is doing with KasCare, an African charity founded to take care of AIDS orphans.

It's my kind of easy-peasy knitting and all in a good cause! You can do whatever you like - knit or crochet - any colour or stitch you like (I've started with garter stitch but have grand ambitions of moss stitch and other more complicated patterns), and it takes but an evening to get one on the needles and off again.

Oh, I do like a project.