Friday, December 10, 2010

Knitting at school

Last night was the "Night of Talents" at our local school. This is the final hurrah after a few weeks of "enrichment clusters." Every Thursday afternoon for 4 or 5 weeks the kids do something other than actual school work, and I have traditionally helped with the knitting.

This year, I suggested decorating the railing in this window, instead of laying things out on a table. It didn't turn out exactly as I would have done it, given free rein, but it was cool, though hard to photograph from the inside. This is what we saw as we approached the school:


A boy named Benn knitted this, but was such a whiner about casting off. At the last minute I did it for him, but I said I needed my name on the label, so you see it says, "Casted off by Mary." He had the not-uncommon problem with accidental increases, but after a while he stabilized.


And then there were the boys and their finger-knitting!

Longer, longer, more, more! This was probably about 40 feet long! One boy made a similar piece, and then finger-knitted the finger-knitting, so it was short and thick, there on the right:

These kids were mostly rank beginners a few weeks ago, so it amazes me that they produced anything in the few short hours they had.

Next year, parking meter cosies, or covering the principal's car!

4 comments:

  1. That is an impressive quantity of knitting! Congrats to everyone, including the intrepid leader.

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  2. fantastic!
    it's wonderful to see the kids excited about knitting!!

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  3. What a great outcome. Parking meter cozies, yes! I have thought about getting kids too little or uninterested inknitting to do a bunch of finger knitting than using it as super bulky yarn to knit a simple project

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  4. What a wonderful thing for the school to do! Is this going to be done all the year round now?

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