On Charity Knitting, Cancer, and Pink Things

There has got to be something ironic about watching a show on hoarding while pawing through my yarn stash. However, I've found out about a second knitting charity - a group that collects scarves to give to women undergoing cancer surgery - and as it covers women who are going to the same hospital where I got my surgery, I feel obligated to chip in. So I'm going through the yarn I bought in the name of the "learn to knit" project to see what might suit to be knitted up now. (The yarn store collects all year long, so this will be a perfect ChicagoTARDIS knitting project

The mandate is that the scarves be "soft and beautiful" -- not that they must be pink.

Which leads me to this, because America is about to turn pepto-bismol pink for a month. There is more to supporting breast cancer research than buying something pink. Unless a substantial amount of that purchase is going to be donated - and it's usually ha'pennies on the sawbuck - you can do more financial good for the Cause by donating directly to your charity of choice.

That said, there is one pink thing I am going to recommend: The Better Homes and Gardens pink plaid cookbook has never given me a bad recipe. The back of my edition, bought many years ago, says what was donated as a whole to Komen out of the proceeds, although I have no idea how that relates to percentage-per-individual copy.