Knitters' Blessings

Recently one of my knitting students (who is a dear friend) found out that she has cancer.  So, Lynn (also a dear friend and knitting student) and I decided to ask other members of our friends's knitting class if they would be interested in knitting a joint caring/prayer shawl for her.  The response was overwhelming!

My "task" was to write up a pattern for a small square to give out to each student.

Lynn's assignment was to notify all of the knitters from past and current classes about the project.  She also did the math (thank goodness!...math is definitely not one of my strong points!) and bought the yarn we needed.
Then we distributed the yarn and the pattern to each volunteer knitter.  Soon, squares started flowing in!  Even my youngest little student knit on it and helped sew the squares together.

 
 Each time I opened my front door and found a square that had been left by one of the knitters, I experienced a Sacred Moment.  Surely each knitter was being the "Hands and Feet of God".  What a blessing to me the making of this shawl has been.  Please keep our ill friend in your prayers.

 In honor of my friend and student, I am putting up a free pattern
for the Square Directions that we gave to each knitter who was working on the shawl:

http://bit.ly/19xWtdc

 

and also the Instruction Sheet of how to put the shawl together and a bit about how we organized it.

http://bit.ly/19xWtdc

We received so many squares that the shawl was becoming too long, so I used the extra squares to make a little Cushion/Shawl Carry Bag.  Here is a picture of that:

What's Been on my Needles lately:
A nifty "Braided Scarf" from this website:
http://olgajazzzy.blogspot.com/2010/12/cable-braided-necklace.html

 I used Lustersheen yarn by Red Heart from my yarn stash.  It's a thin yarn about the thickness of lace or sock yarn.  To make it your create little "buttonholes" evenly spaced along each of the 2 strips.

 I made the evenly spaced holes about 10 rows apart instead of the 8 rows that the pattern specifies.  I'd like to say that I did that because the yarn was so thin that it looked better...but...true confession now, I "goofed" and miss-read the directions.  All of my students who are reading this will love hearing that their teacher actually made a mistake!  Right now, dear students, you can take me off any "pedestal" that you have put me on!

 Oh, and I found the perfect button for my necklace:

 And, so dear readers as I finish up this post, please remember to be aware of being God's Hands, Feet, and Mouth...then this world will flourish with Love...
Mary