Well, after a long day Friday at Foster, I got up early today and went back again for another two short shifts. I have nothing to complain about, my shifts are not as long as most people’s work, and I get to sleep in most days. It’s only the three weekends a month where I teach at 9am, that I have to get up with an alarm clock. I know how lucky that is… I’m not complaining. I guess I’m just explaining why the blogs are shorter and sans pictures these days. This pic is four of my knitters with “shades” on (I drew the eyeglasses to keep some semblance of privacy), last December when we had a special day of dyeing silk scarves with Kool-Aid drink mix.

After teaching a 9-1 computer class today, I was scheduled for computer lab from 2-4 pm. What actually happened, was that no computer people showed up at all (the day started out in the lower 40’s but was a nice sunny day by afternoon, and the kids were playing outside as they should). I did, however, have four knitting kids. Three of them were driven to the center by their parents and dropped off specifically for knitting.

Three of the knitters started knitting just Wednesday and could not *wait* to knit again. The fourth just started maybe a week before the others. We had a wonderful time together. The 6 year old (who just turned six in March) got to the point where I didn’t need to say our knitting poem for her, she could say it herself, and make stitches without waiting for me to walk her through it. She made good progress, and she just beamed in delight the whole time!

Two of the girls had me bind off their small bits of fabric so they could start in again with new needles and yarn. One of those girls made very good time stitching away on her new piece, remarkably so since she just started on Wednesday.

Now they have figured out they can make stripes by changing colors. They love this idea (they love color as much as I do). So now we are all choosing which colors they like with which others. So fun! It’s a good way to use up all the small balls of yarn which have been donated to the center, as well.

I look forward to Monday. I think all four of these girls will be back, as well as some of my other regulars. It should be fun.

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