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knitting for love
Announcements | May 05, 2008
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Why do we knit? Because we love to. We love everything about it. The stitches, the yarn, needles,colors and patterns. Putting it all together and getting a sense of how it will play together. Planning it all out and then the actual knit itself. Socks, sweaters, mittens… .
A lot of us knit with and for love. We knit for those we love ( a pair of socks for a friend) and we knit for those in need ( a shawl or blanket for someone who is in need ) and we knit for others to be helpful and a part of something bigger than ourselves ( hats for preemies and the homeless), to contribute in some small way to the world we inhabit.
I like to think of this as intentional knitting. There is thought and heart in every single stitch. As the recipient of several of these love-knits I can tell you they are quite amazing in their effect. To wrap yourself in a shawl that a friend has knit their love for you in every single stitch, well it is a powerful and humbling thing.
At camp we have had several, four to be exact, blankets being knit, to gift to someone or some group in need. They are not yet done and I would like to see them out in the world spreading joy and comfort, not sitting in a box in my studio. So I was wondering if there are who are interested in this project. It needs to be at least 4 people, so a knit group/stitchnbitch comes to mind. The group aspect makes it a bit more fun and adds in a little more mojo! It does not need to be an exclusive sock club thing, anyone is welcome here.
Actually it would be a great thing to just keep going if there are enough interested. I will supply the yarn and color.
Anyone interested please email me at sockclub@bluemoonfiberarts.com and put “knit@love” in the title.
thank you
tina
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28 Responses to “knitting for love”
Well, there’s at least 3 of us sock club members at work (tapmouse & I being 2 of them), we could host one. (Then again, tapmouse may kill me for volunteering us in that over-achieving project manager kind of way.)
Or maybe send one to Nathania at Purlescence and those of us in the Bay Area can work on it when we visit her shop? Just a thought.
What a great idea! I bet my SnB would love to do that, especially since there are two sock club members (I’ll check with them tomorrow!). And with WWKIP day coming up, I bet a lot of us could make some progress on it! Or else I’m just going to go work with Nartian and Tapmouse
I tried to reply that my s ‘n’ b would love to accept the challenge but I got a fatal error report…it says that my user name has been…banned…sniff, sniff, what did I do!?!?!?!?!?! We’re still interested!!
amy.stefnaisko@gmail.com
wow Amy what did you do? I’ll gochaeck it out and fix it. So try again in a bit and we will see if I have the email fixing mojo with me tonight.
I haven’t gotten another rejection notice…so I thank you for getting me out of the dog house!!
Amy
I just tried to send you an email as well, and I am also banned
Was I bad too?
oh who knows, eveidently our ticket system has a bug up its arse.
I will go fix yours also.
ooops I need your last name knitter kitter
Last name is Schell. Thank you, and I’m sorry about your system being a pain…
Consider it done. It actually is a pretty awesome system. Just every once in awhile strange things happen.
Is this just for the U.S. or can those of us in Canada help out?
Ah, Nartian knows I’ll start anything!-lol! It’s the finishing I get messed up with! But with Nartian keeping me in check, it WILL get done! I’m in, Baby!
Yes to Canada also!
Tina, count me in. I have a group here, including 2 club members. This is near and dear to my heart!
THANK YOU ALL!! It will take me a day or tow to respond to the emails so if you have not heard from me just give it a day or two.
speechless!
Uh-oh, I’m banned too!
In any case, my knitting group would like to help.
ugh, Lise I need your last name
It’s Brackbill. Thanks!
I am also banned. I would also like to help.
Can you give me more details on exactly what is going on.
I thought I might be able to email now but it bounced again. The error message is really long but I think these are the highlights:
—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
“|exec /home/parser/bin/parser”
(reason: Internal error)
(expanded from: )
*This is followed by a many line transcript*
CURL:
CERBERUS PARSER [ERROR]: Incoming message is from banned sender (menagerie@hevanet.com).
554 5.3.0 Internal error
Reporting-MTA: dns; web-1.inboxhq.net
Received-From-MTA: DNS; relay-1.mail.nethere.net
Arrival-Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:43:03 -0700 (PDT)
Original-Recipient: rfc822;parser@bluemoon.inboxhq.com
Final-Recipient: RFC822; parser@web-1.inboxhq.net
X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |exec /home/parser/bin/parser
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 70
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:43:04 -0700 (PDT)
Hope this helps.
yes it does Lise. thanks so much, tech dude will jump for joy with all this codey stuff
I signed up my knitting group!! This will be a fun summer project.
Just got a blankie box today! Thanks Tina! I’ll be gearing up and roping tapmouse/Leslie in on getting this going.
Blue Moon knitting love has landed on the east coast!!! Tina, this will be sooooo much fun and so gratifying! Someone special will be wrapped in comfort and blue love!
Thanks for your kind spirit!
One arrived in DC yesterday afternoon and it was just in time for me to take it to our weekly Dupont Circle SnB. We worked on it with some wine and lots of giggles. It’s now going to be a regular feature at our knitting night. Thanks so very much. It is so much fun to sit around a table and knit in unison with others, I think everyone should give it a try.
Hello all. A blankie box has arrived here in Ontario yesterday. It’s fresh (as in not started), and the colours are so very beautiful. My brain is having difficulty with the concept of 4 knitters working in unison. Can anyone share a photo with me of their in-progress blanket? I’d like to have an idea about how the actual blanket looks before beginning. Thank you, Gale
Hey Gale, I just created a set in Flickr for you to see the pictures I have from last year and this year. http://flickr.com/photos/16483851@N00/sets/72157605560722285/
I am sure that someone here can explain it better than I can.
tammy
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