from the blog: “one of the things i should do more: drink water and stay hydrated. good for all kinds of aspects of health and beauty, but, for me, it’s all about the migraines. if i stayed hydrated, i’d ward off more migraines. but i get so absorbed in my work (or my knitting or my whatever) that i just don’t stop to get a drink. and i find plain, still water boring, i confess--i love fizzy water and soda, but i don’t drink caffeine or aspartame or anything that combines sodium benzoate with citric acid, and those limitations knock out nearly everything except water. and my treehugger sensibilities make me not want to drink so much bottled water, though we do, at least, recycle the empties.
”so a couple of weekends ago, i bought three dishwasher-safe, lexan water bottles with flip-top spouts (eddie bauer branded but sold at target for $5-6, if you’re curious, in the camping supply section). three so i could be using one, have one dirty, and one in the dishwasher. no excuse to be without a water bottle. i put fizzy or still water (filtered, because our tap water is truly nasty) in with some luna elixir in for flavor and vitamins (available at drugstore.com, and i’ll drink it all day long. and dishwasher-safe, safely reusable bottles from home means not buying bottled water all the time--less waste, better for the environment.
“and now that the weather is finally starting to get nice enough to spend time outside and walk some of my commute, i want to be able to carry a water bottle with me when i’m out and about, too. i’ve been meaning to knit a water bottle carrier for a couple of years now, but never found the right yarn, the right pattern, whatever. today, i finally sat down to do it. i couldn’t find a pattern online that i liked, but i did have a skein of yarn from my secret pal from last year (sp8)--some beautiful, hand-dyed, araucania nature cotton in a gorgeous medium blue . so i figured i’d make up a pattern as i went. here’s what i did, and it fits my bottle almost perfectly--if i made it again, i would not decrease as much at the bottom, because you can see it’s snug there.”