Stitch to Enrich!

This last Saturday was our first time hanging out with the folks who "Stitch to Enrich!" Our church is really trying to help the local community, and the Stitch to Enrich program is one way of doing that. Some of the young women in our church who know how to knit are teaching others to do so. So this Saturday, I went to a young lady's apartment and learned how to knit with about a half-dozen other girls (plus Trinity and Dexter!)



The blanket TheFry has in the picture is one that I crocheted for him. I started working on it before he was born and just finished it last month. ^_^;; I learned over the weekend that knitting is a rather clumsy affair. I dealt with the frustration by picking up a more complicated crochet project. I'm planning on knitting a little girl's sweater.



In the end, we hope to donate 100 items of clothing (mostly scarves and hats) to a local homeless shelter for those who can't afford winter clothes. In our local area it is miserably cold for about six months of the year. This last winter, we had several weeks of below-zero temperatures - a longer stretch of them than I ever remember.





Anyhow, TheFry enjoyed being fawned over and playing with yarn (until he got all tangled up this one time, and MamaFish had to save him). He got all pooped out on affection, and demanded to return home earlier than we had hoped.

Until next time!