It's Thursday!

Another Thursday has passed. Thursday mornings are a great time in the store. It is a complimentary meet time for stitchers. Whether you crochet, knit, are a beginner or advance, it doesn't matter when all come together for the love of fiber.

We are all enablers! We ooh and ahh over everyone's projects. Someone usually has a great new pattern or book for us to wet our appetite and have to purchase for the store.

Our latest "craze" is Frog Tree's Origami pullover sweater made out of delicious sport alpaca. It is a beginner sweater of two rectangles of a K1, P2 ribbing! Mindless knitting. We have actually decided to make this our KAL starting January 20, Friday from one to five. We will continue this casual meeting of hands and needles (yes, crocheters, we have the crochet version also)until most sweaters are being worn by their creators. Stop in for the whole four hours or just a few.

The leaves of the table have been tucked back into their storage space, the stitchers have left for their lives outside the store and all are inspired and ready to tackle the world!

Socks!

Last night was the completion of our 4 week sock class. We offer this class about every 3 months. I am really proud of these women! One had made a complete pair plus working on her second pair! Every one else was well on their way to finishing also. One had made socks before but never with yarn so fine and needles so small. J was new to knitting and she had only started knitting about 3 weeks before the class, being taught by her fellow participant and future mother-in-law!

We had lots of learning and many laughs. Look at what great colors they chose also.

This morning is our weekly Stitch group from 10 AM to 12 Noon. This is such a fun, lively group. It is wonderful to see what all are working on each week. People come and go all morning. We just sit around our large table and stitch, telling stories and enjoying each others projects and company. We also tend to enable each other also. LOL Anyone is welcome to join us.

Great things to come... Giving back... Stitch for Babies

A few of us got together to brainstorm how we could give something back to our community. Many of us have knit hats for chemotherapy patients as well as hats for soldiers but we wanted something that would benefit the community locally. One of our new favorite customers delivered a baby boy, 8 weeks premature. She came in to pick out yarn to knit for her tiny baby to make him look more "baby" than the hospital linen. LIGHT BULB! Who can resist a baby? Not any of us!

We will be knitting preemie and newborn hats, booties and blankets (the size of a nice hand towel)for sick and premature infants at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA. There is a real need for all those infants who stay past their mothers' stay to be seen as babies as well as us wanting their families to see them as babies, not just connected to tubes and monitor leads. There is a huge appreciation from the families that receive these small gifts.

We will have free patterns for all to select or knit up your own. Join us any Thursday morning from 10 to 12 to sit and stitch (free) and work on these projects or join us the first Saturday afternoon every month, our first meeting will be February 6, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon to stitch for babies!

Please use a yarn that can be machine washed and dried since we all know babies can be spitty or accidentally wet their bedding. Ask us at the store how you can get a special offer on Berroco's Comfort yarn to use for these projects.

All donations are greatly appreciated! If unable to join us at one of the stitch times, donations may be dropped off at the store any time. Debbie will package and deliver the items to the Special Care Nursery personally once a month. Please place your name in with your donations so we can thank you! We will have pictures soon.