Pictures of India


So, was this a life-changing experience?

My friend Kirill asked me this yesterday. I don't know. Maaayyyybe.

I do know that it's hard to get back into a knit blog after this trip, mostly because I keep thinking about how my view of things has changed, making resolutions for how to change my life in Toronto, and thinking about the women I worked with in Calcutta. So I think I will blog about this stuff more than the knitting. Is that cool with everyone? Considering that I haven't finished a project in months, my guess is that most of the people who actually read this blog are not exactly knitting fanatics.

So, I'ma keep posting pictures* from India. Let's start with a knitterly one.


It's a woman at the Tibetan Refugee Self-help Center outside of Darjeeling, knitting one of fuzzy toques that vacationing Indians throw on when the temp drops to a frosty 15 degrees on a cold Darjeeling morning.

The refugee center is amazing -- a little self-sufficient commune hidden in the fog, and the people there craft beautiful stuff all day long. They shear their own sheep, spin and dye the wool, and then weave it into bags and clothes, and knit it into sweaters and hats.

This is their yarn stock (unfortunately they don't sell the yarn), and the beautiful woman in charge of hank-winding, with her kitten.


I know -- kitties and yarn! Naturally, I was aaww-ing and cooing like an idiot.

*Lest you think that I'm a really good photographer, let me say that each picture I post has usually been enhanced and fancy-fied using software, and for every good picture, there are, like, 10 crappy ones.

Posted: Fri - July 15, 2005 at 08:18 AM        

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