Dear Readers: Today's Sound Off comes from a reader whose frustrations center around the bags inside breakfast-cereal boxes.
Jim S. in Houston wrote: "One of my pet peeves is the difficulty in opening plastic bags inside boxed items such as cereal. One would think that in this technological age, someone would have figured out how to make easy-to-open bags. Do you have any solution other than scissors?"
Jim, the best solution I have is scissors, because it's only sometimes that "the powers that be" are on your side and these bags can be easily opened. Since that's a rarity, your best bet is a pair of scissors.-Heloise
FAST FACTS
Dear Readers: Here are some things you can consider making when you have skeins of leftover yarn:
- Crochet simple scarves or mittens and give to homeless shelters.
- Knit baby caps and give to hospitals for NICU (neonatal intensive-care unit) babies.
- Knit or crochet large squares or rectangles and send to animal shelters for bedding or covering.
- Make articles of clothing and place in donation boxes.
- Search the web for free patterns to use in projects.
-Heloise
USES FOR EXTRA SKEINS
Dear Readers: I just gave you some hints for using up those extra skeins of yarn, which are listed in the Fast Facts. A reader wrote in about what she does with her skeins, and since it supports the column so well, I thought I'd share it with my readers.-Heloise
"I crochet small projects and have leftover yarn. My winter project is combining the leftover skeins and making 50-by-6-inch scarves with multicolored tassels on each end and donating them to a local food pantry.
"I use simple crochet stitches, such as single and double. It keeps me busy, and someone can always use a warm scarf. A word of caution: Don't make them with scratchy-fiber-type yarn."-C. Duffy in Alabama
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Heloise
P.O. Box 795000
San Antonio, TX 78279-5000
Fax: 1-210-HELOISE
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