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Sweater before changing waistband and before washing. Photos by Jo deVries This months’ blog post is a follow-up to last November’s Knitting with Natural Fibres. Most autumns, I start planning at least one knitting project. Knitting makes my long winters in Ontario, Canada, pass more pleasurably. It also produces a warm garment that keeps me cozy and happy while knitting it. I usually start by looking through my inventory, to see if anything catches my interest. My yarn collection was severely depleted three years ago when I went on a knitting spree. I tackled all my unfinished projects...

Is going out. but she's coming in on this note of a shutdown. let's talk about, yes, we've talked about the political parties. you know who's really paying the price? it's people around the country. people in the coast guard who thought they were getting paid on monday and are not going to get paid on monday. we went around and talked to some folks around the country. here is the actual impact for some people in places other than here in washington. not a creature's been stirring since saturday in the empty hallways of washington but virginia, free knitting lessons for furloughed government wo...

You know, keep our family intact. >> it's a burden enough, a strong enough job, big enough job that you have. one of the things the president said, and i want you to listen to this, it's not just about the government shutdown, because this lasted for three days but the possibility of defaulting on our debt on our loans. here's how he says this is coming, this is looming, this is next. >> in a government shutdown social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown if we don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time. in a got shutdown, disability benefits arrive on tim...

Concession of not raising debt ceiling? what are they asking for now from leadership? >> if i can add a rider to that, why are they so powerful? >> reporter: the reason they are so powerful is because they are -- well, let me answer the first question from suzanne first of what they want. one of the congressmen was actually quoted saying that they don't really know what they want and that is part of the problem. many of them come from extremely conservative districts and they're getting phone calls from their conservatives say, go, go, go, keep it going, shut it down, and that's the kind of fe...

A few republican member of the house are breaking with majority and leadership in hopes of ending the shutdown, getting government simply back to work. >> pressing for a new funding bill, one without the demands on president obama's health care program. minnesota republican erik paulsen is one of them. he even tweeted these words through his followers, quote, during the shutdown i have asked to have my pay withheld. >> congressman erik paulsen joining us live from capitol hill. congressman, you say you're willing to work for no pay, what a lot of folks are having to do now furloughed to get to...