34 scarves!!!!!!
it all started back in the summer, when the temps were in the 90's. one evening i had about 15 or so women from my "women over 40 tribe" from church over to my house for our monthly gathering and we talked about my journey with yarn.
let me back-track for a moment.....first off, all of the small group gatherings at our church are called "tribes" different, cool, trendy, maybe it's really some secret, inner, Survior Show envy thing,(not really i'm the only one i know who watches the crazy thing) whatever.....anyway.... i talked here before about how i teach jr. high full time but have always wanted to do "something" with knitting and yarn so i do that part time.
well i spoke to the group that night about that experience and the journey, growth and excitement for me with teaching some classes and selling some yarns.
one thing that came from that was a gal calling me with a knitting out-reach idea. she asked if i would be interested in teaching some of the women there that night to knit and we could then knit scarves and find a charity to give them too. she did all the organizing. i just showed up to help.
well.......it was funny, at the monthy meetings there were small handfuls of women but we kept on going, women learned how to knit, closet knitters appeared, women knitted at home, they taught their kids to knit, some even taught their high school boys "there shall be no idle hands while watching TV".
after months of knitting, sharon collected the scarves last week, and i think at final count we have 34 scarves 3 hats and 1 pair of mittens!!!!!
maybe we'll start a new "knitting tribe".
BTW ( by the way) there is a local site housing relocates from New Orleans and i think that's were the handknit items are going. think about this.........when we began knitting this summer the hurricane hadn't even hit.
thanks sharon!
