Tuesday, October 23, 2007

October 24, 2007 - Knitters in Recovery

We received beautiful purple wool and our client added a special fun fur touch to her felted handbag!

This blanket is for her daughter! She put ties on it and it also becomes a cape!
Here is a first project washcloth! She moved on to purling and is now working on a ribbed scarf.

Above: two newly felted bags!


Above: scarves for presents, a blanket for her daughter, and below, a beautiful crocheted blanket.


Above: this is a prayer shawl. Everyone here it doing some rows sending good wishes to our client's mother who is very ill.


Above and below: scarves and blankets.


Zelphia our volunteer always is working on something that gives ideas to all of us.

Lucia: finishing the sweater for her husband during our knitting group. Here I am with Guy. Many of you have seen Toby through the blog years. Toby was almost 14 and died on September 10. Guy seems okay with modelling scarves!

Below: a soft pink scarf for a mom who is very ill.


Hi! Thanks everyone for the kind wishes and support for our knitting program. With everyone's help we have lots of new knitters in recovery! We have had many clients complete residential this past month and move to outpatient and now we have many new residential clients and all are learning to knit. It is always fun to knit in the fall because of the need for scarves and hats and holiday gifts. It is thrilling to watch people learn the joy of being able to make something out of a ball of yarn. Many of our clients are learning about blogs through this knitting blog and they have such fun seeing their creations on the computer. We are always looking at the map to see how far and wide our blog has been!