If your cooler breaks, knit a hat

We don't have central AC. Just evaporative cooling. Which works fine in the desert if the humidity is low....and of course if it works at all.... It went out on Saturday, and 100 degree heat with no cooler is not considered an emergency by the apartment complex. So I sat in my room and knit a hat. Nothing complicated...88 stitch cast on, rolled brim, and some color work thrown in. I like the decreases, tho, which are knit to within four sts of your decrease. K2tog, YO, K2tog. My BFF would complain about the holes and his head is freezing, but for the majority of us, it's just enough of a design to be cute!

So, the never ending put down of knitters that use acrylic yarns has again risen to the surface. I was told that my inability to afford as much wool yarn as I would like is not that acrylic is less expensive, it's that I don't know how to budget my discretionary money. My income is less than $500 and from that I have to pay two major bills, my son's allowance, feed my animals, and then, if there is money left over, or I save for a couple of months, I can buy yarn.

Now, I knit to keep my hands busy. It's not a choice, it's a necessity, called stimming, related to my autism. I knit alot...hours on end sometimes. I go through a lot of yarn. If I, as this person seemed to think I should, use only wool yarn, I just plain couldn't afford to knit. And that's not gonna happen. Acrylic yarn provides me with the opportunity to knit alot, afford to do that knitting, and keeps lots of people on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Eagle Butte, SD, warmer. People just never realized others are bad off in this economy and those of us that were bad off before are now worse off...