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January 18, 2005
Great turnout at KNITZILLA! this week!
We had 15 knitters and crocheters at tonight's KNITZILLA! meeting -- everyone
seemed to have a ball. Ha ha. A yarn ball.
We received three donated scrubbies, in addition to my two. One is crochet,
the other two knit. They are all gorgeous. One of the knit ones is an
anonymous donation--one of the KNITZILLAs came to her desk at work, and it
was just sitting there. Someone from her work made it and donated it to the
project. People are cool, no? This makes the total number of scrubbies
donated: EIGHT. (I've made five. I am confident these numbers will be more
proportional in the near future.) That's eighty bucks for tsunami relief!
And so much heart!
We now have volunteer knitters from Chicago, Puerto Rico, Claremont and the
LA area making scrubbies for the project.
Two new KNITZILLAs have donated *55* skeins of yarn to the group for
teaching and charity crafting. BIG ones, too! However all is acrylic and our
current project requires cotton yarn. These donations will go to a good
cause, however, as I know two knitters who make caps and clothes for preemie
babies as well as chemo caps for cancer patients. I have contacted them to
see whether they are able to take the yarn for their charity work.
One woman, Sylvia, who came to donate yarn had not planned on staying to
knit as she hadn't brought a project to work on. Instead she stayed to teach
two new knitters, and I learned a new method of casting on!
Benny, our Black Sheep Crocheter, who learned crochet to make a sweet iPOD
case, came and he is nearly finished with case #2, less fuzzy than the first
case. Both are super cool. His sweetheart, Martina, finished the winter
white scarf she started last Monday. Gorgeous!
Posted by sedda at January 18, 2005 11:52 AM