knit for charity

not very well and pretty much only scarves but still – i’m on my way. I’m going to try scarf after scarf till I get better then hopefully take the second knitting class and learn the pearl stitch and some other cool things.

I’v been knitting all day and my fingers are sooo cramped up but I love it.

I signed up for a beginning knitting class at Knitty City, a local knitting store. I figure if I can’t learn after 2 hours of instruction then knitting is just not for me. Class is nov 7th! Very excited

The kit that I had bought to learn how to knit was easily put: just too hard for me. I found myself trying to turn the instructions every direction just to see if I was missing something. So…

After a little research I’ve found a place in New York that is just a long walk from my apartment and offers beginning knitting classes for just $30. I’m hoping that with an instructor I’ll be able to get this checked off. The class I’ll be taking is Nov 7th.

Also they knitting store that offers the classes does a knit for charity night each week and will deliver whatever you make to different charities! Seems too perfect.

Today I went to the Community Knitting group again. It was great (again). I finished the first afghan sqaure and I’m happy how it came out. I’m going to try to knit up a few squares each week. When I get a few more done, I will post a picture here.

Today I attended “Community Knitting” at my Local Yarn Store for the first time. The group is knitting and crocheting 7” x 9” squares to make afghans to donate to a local charity alled “Gemini House”. The charity is a transitional residence for 13-18 year-olds who are waiting to be placed in foster homes.

I think this is a great cause, and I am excited to help make some afghans for this group. Plus the people at the Community Knitting group were great fun, too!

and dropped it off at one of the collection sites this afternoon. The project’s goal is to collect 5,280 hand-knitted or hand-crocheted helmet liners by the end of today. The site where I dropped mine off had collected 93 there at 2:00 in the afternoon. I wonder if they will make the goal.

Thanks to my DH F for modelling the hat!!

The Denver Public Library is sponsoring a two-day marathon today and tomorrow to try to collect 5,280 knitted and crcocheted helmet liners to give to our local USO, who is then going to send the helmet liners to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think this is a great project!

Just got back from my LYS where I bought some appropriate yarn. They are asking that the helmet liners be made of superwash wool, so that they can be washed easily. Now I gotta get busy and knit so I can get at least one finished by tomorrow!

my attempts are pretty pathetic. I think I may need to take a class or something.

This one is for another friend of mine who is going through chemo. Gosh, I would so much rather mail these off to an anonymous cancer center then have so many people I know having chemo.

Hopefully can get it to her real soon. Best yarn for a chemo cap I’ve used yet…Rowan calmer!

I’ve made two afghans for afghans for Afghans and two baby blankets that went to my local [really local—three blocks away!] hospital’s charity group. I also had a yarn swap at my house. The leavings either went to the hospital when they were the sorts of things that I thought they’d want, or went into my bins for charity knitting. It’s awesome to replenish my charity stash and all of that yarn would have just sat around or gone in the trash…