INTRODUCING!



College Chicks With Sticks
"A Story of Yarn, Knitting, Purling, Yarn Overs, Knots, Needles, the US Postal Service, and Us"

In May 2007, we graduated from high school together. In August 2007, we entered two very different colleges in two very different parts of the country. During the summer between these two big, important, kinda-sorta-life-changing events, we came up with an idea: to knit a blanket together, sending it back and forth from Georgia to New York along with notes and good wishes.

We started with a pair of circular needles. Each of us knits one "strip" of 150 stitches, using whatever yarn we choose. Once we've finished our strip, we send the blanket and needles back to the other, along with a note describing the yarn we used and a list of songs that we think fits whatever we've created. We also take pictures of our finished section and post them here.

Why are we doing this?

When you're a senior in high school, you get told a lot of things: how to write your essay, various peoples' theories on whether the essay or SAT/ACT scores are more important, the merits of the Common Application, what sort of questions to ask on college tours, and, as depressing as it is, that you're probably going to forget about your high school friends when you start meeting people at college. We're not exactly setting out to disprove this idea, but we do want to make sure that this isn't what happens to us. And what better way to stay connected than with yarn?


A (very, very little) bit about each of us:
lesword is at Skidmore College in New York, where she is a prospective English-French double major and fiber arts minor. She has about a million ideas as to what she wants to do when she graduates, and none of them are at all realistic.

moonlinnet is at the University of Georgia, where she plans on majoring in Superhero.