November 6 and 13, 2009

Thanks you to everyone who writes, calls, and checks out our blog. We all appreciate it and send our thanks. Happy Thanksgiving!

This is our new mascot, Triscuit.

Here is Alison, with our new mascot, Triscuit. Alison brought him today and the ladies loved knitting with a dog on their laps. Triscuit was a real "therapy" dog. What could be better!

Here is Jamar, a volunteer, showing the ladies a lacy scarf and modeling a knitted sweater.

Above: a new knitter her first day. Below: this lady hasn't been here long and look at these even stitches.

Below: Leslie, our volunteer, showing us her latest projects.

Above: Amanda: our social work intern, working on her scarf. The ladies taught her!

This lady is making a shawl and also a scarf in bits and balls of different yarns.

Lucia, a volunteer who helps teach every week, is working on her own needlepoint project along with a Christmas stocking.

Lynn, who works here, continues to inspire us with her skinny scarves. Below, a three pom pom hat!

This will be a sweater with odds and ends of sock yarn.

This is a shrug - a gift for a mom.

Below: many gifts for family members.

Oct. 23 & Oct. 30, 2009

Happy Halloween! Here are some photos from our latest projects. Thank you to everyone who reads this blog and thanks for your good wishes. We love hearing from everyone who writes. So many people have helped keep this knitting program going and there are many many new knitters in the world now. The clients say it helps so much in their recovery from drugs and alcohol. It is inspiring for them to hear your stories so thank you for writing.



We have a client who is fast becoming the "hat lady" --- below: our social work intern who is finishing her project and inspiring the ladies and showing the clients this blog on a laptop.

This is a new knitter's first project. What we now call a "spa cloth." Below, look at her scarf.

This is our volunteer, Jamar, dressed for halloween, teaching a new client how to knit. And below: another new knitter.

This is Leslie, our volunteer, showing the ladies her newest beautiful project. Below, a new knitter finished her first scarf.

This lady is so proud of her first project that isn't a scarf. She is making a shawl out of beautiful yarn. She also just learned to purl and is making a skinny scarf with two rows purl and two rows knitting, learning..........and she is having fun with it.


We have a client who loves to crochet and this hat is her latest project. Below, this lady only wants to knit with thicker yarn. This is her latest!

Above: a scarf from someone who has been persistently learning, below, a shrug she hopes to have finished by this Friday. It's a present for her mother.




This is Alison, our volunteer, showing us her latest projects.

This is a piece that can be worn up or down. This is our socklady! off of socks for a minute.

Zelphia, dressed for halloween, showing us her latest project. she is designing a sweater. herself.
Here is our hat lady again.


Lynn, who works here, is inspiring everyone with her long skinny scarves using odds and ends of yarn.