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a knitter since my teens, I am thrilled, of course, and in the research for Midlands
Today I've met dozens of other people (men included) who feel the same!
There were the
students at Walsall Art College, the infants at Meir Heath Primary School
school in North Staffordshire learning to knit for the first time and the women
from Leamington Spa whose internet site selling sock wool is so successful she's
been able to open a shop. Most
inspirational of all though is the group in Worcestershire , featured on tonight's
Midlands Today, who've knitted more than one thousand items of clothing already
this year for children in former eastern European countries, so impoverished that
a gift of a pencil and eraser is a source of wonderment to them. The
Knit and Knatter group meets every second Tuesday in the month at St Paul's Church
in the city and together they've provided scarves, hats, jumpers and blankets
for Operation Christmas Child, the charity run by Samaritan's Purse International. The
clothes are collected in Evesham and are put into Shoe Boxes covered in wrapping
paper along with other goodies such as crayons, small toys and books. They are
then transported by lorry to the orphanages and homes where the children live
in time for Christmas.
Destination countries for 2005 include Serbia,
Croatia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania and Mozambique. The
group enjoy knitting for the children because they say it gives them a purpose
to their hobby.
And
as Midlands Today viewers it's something you can get involved with, too. Just
click on the following link to access the patterns. There are three in all, ranging
in levels of difficulty.
Square -
Level 1
Scarf
- Level 1
Hat
- Level 2
Once you have finished your items, please parcel
them up and send them to: Knit
4 Kids,
11, Winchcombe Road,
Sedgeberrow,
Evesham,
Worcestershire.
WR11 7UA.
Good luck and Happy Knitting!
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