Like many people I keep a small project which I can pick up at odd moments. For several years this has been scarves. I knit while I chat on the phone, I knit when listening to audiobooks, I knit when I am daydreaming. I'm not a skilled knitter but I am pretty prolific!
This year I have sent fifteen scarves to a charity which distributes them to people in need. Each is about 23 centimetres wide, two metres of knitting long, plus about 25 centimetres of fringing. They are tubes knitted on a circular needle so they are double thickness.
I'm a member of a knitting group which send twiddle muffs to dementia patients, blankets for older people, teddy bears to the emergency services. We sometimes knit things to sell to buy thermal socks and gloves for homeless people.
I really enjoy this project. I hope the recipients enjoy its output.
Circular needles are great, especially for stop-start projects! And who could fail to be cheered up by receiving such lovely scarves. I think your knitting group is doing wonderful work.
ReplyDeleteCircular needles are particularly great for these scarves as all the end finish up inside the scarf and there is no darning in!
DeleteI love the idea of no darning in ends. For so many years I seemed to do nothing much when Mother was alive and knitting all her charity cardigans, Margaret from New Zealand
ReplyDeleteThis is how my Gran always knitted scarves including some beautiful fairisle ones. My job was to do the fringing. Happy memories. Catrion
ReplyDeleteI've had to dust off my knitting brain as granddaughter wants me to teach her, and I haven't knitted anything for about 8 years. I can remember the stitches, but shall have to You Tube the casting on. Fortunately I found wool and needles in a charity shop and I'm just going to teach her plain, purl to start with. Wish me luck! Xx
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