New Zealand and Penguins

NO WAAAAAAAY! YOU'RE CRAAAAAAAAZY!

  Knitters of the world! Lay down your needles and hear me out! Your 16 year old grandson does not want a poo-brown sweater with a puppy on it! I wouldn't mind that, but what he wants is a pair of fingerless gloves. Actually, I want a pair of fingerless gloves, too. I guess we both want fingerless gloves. It's the trend now, you see.
  Oh yes, I was saying. Knitters of the world! The whole wide wonderful world! Penguins need your assistance! Not the the hockey team, no. The small and smelly flightless bird! They need assistance immediately.
  Back in October, a Liberian oil tanker hit a reef off the coast of New Zealand. The resulting heavy oil spillage has already killed an estimated 1000 sea birds. So New Zealand-based yarn store Skeinz has asked the knitters of the world to assist them in knitting little penguin sweaters. Knit. I said it again.
  Why? The sweaters will keep the birds warm, and will stop them ingesting oil when they try to preen themselves. Knit.
  Apparently you can't mail sweaters to them anymore, but they still seem active as far as the oil situation goes, so check them out here. 
Knit.


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