CRAFTING GROUPS:
Lettuce B Knitters & Piecemakers Quilting

LETTUCE B KNITTERS          

and do knotty things like knit, crochet, bead, and/or mend. Bring your own project.  All ages, aptitudes and abilities welcome. Knitting help is available on the Lettuce Knit Sundays.
Hope you can join us after second service in the book store. Bring whatever you are working on or mean to start.

The Knitting Guild Association estimates 53 million people in the nation can knit or crochet, a 51 percent increase from a decade ago. And a Craft Yarn Council of America poll found that from 2002 to 2004, there was a 150 percent increase among women ages 25 to 34 who picked up knitting. (Mary Kaye Ritz, Honolulu Advertiser Religion & Ethics Writer). Who knew? We just thought it was fun!

Bernadette Murphy in "Zen and the Art of Knitting," writes: "Knitting taps into my creative brain and uncovers untold treasures. In the sweaters I make for others, I gently pass on my positive desires for their lives; these garments give warmth while embracing the wearer in a hundred-thousand little prayers. And when I knit for myself, the resulting sweater is a tangible reminder that I can make my own warmth in what is often a cold world. When I knit, as when I write, I find myself in ecstatic participation in a divinely animated world."

For more information, talk with Deb or Tina in the Grove Street Book Store on Sunday mornings.

A new group of quilters met on January 30, 2006 to share and plan projects. If you are an undiscovered quilter and would like to join us, please call Joanne Cameron.