Fiber Arts Friday - I Am Third

I used to go to YMCA Kimball Camp in Reading, Michigan every summer.  We were taught "I am Third" which means God first, Others second, and I am third. Now I knit for charity and it all makes sense...I even sneak Alpaca into the mix. Well, I've always tried to put others second and I love being surrounded by those who do to.

Last week I shared with you that my knitting group, Zombie Prom Date Knitters, were making hats and hearts for a little girl who needed brain surgery.  I was so happy to see who many of the ladies contributing to the gift. We ended up with 7 hats, 8 hearts, 1 angora bunny toy, 1 Alpaca book, 1 Alpaca teddy bear, and a whole lotta love!

A bunch of us knitted hearts which I "knitted together".  She could use the hearts to hang up or as a scarf, like Sister Bear is modeling.  After I hooked them all together, I thought of ten different ways it would be better but I needed to get the package in the mail so...that's how her gift will come.

This is the Alpaca blend hat I knitted.  I made up my own pattern and it still turned out wearable.  Lots of YO and Drop Stitched because I LOVE to YO and Drop.

I also finally got to knit with our group at Barnes and Noble at the Lakeview Square Mall in Battle Creek on Wednesday.  I've missed this monthly get together because the MI-ALPACA board meetings were always the same night.  The meeting night changed so I spent time with my friends and got another inch of knitting done on my first lace scarf.   While I was there, SpinSanity was knitting a Print o' the Wave shawl.  She said she was making it for a friend who had lost a close relative.

Last month she gave me the Clapotis in the orange I like, because my Dad had died.  I love that Spinny not only wanted to knit a gift for a friend but was picking patterns that make most (ok, just a few of us) knitters pull their hair out.  These shawls take many hours of work and talent but most of all love...and that is the best ingredient of all.

This is SpinSanity without her spinning or knitting...which is rare.  Oops! They are at her side.

I just love that my knitting group can have so much fun putting others first.   I've been told by more than one of the ladies in my knitting group that when they are knitting a project for someone else that they will put it down if their minds wonder to negative feelings or if they feel sad.  They knit their emotions into the project.  I understand that finally...it took a few gifts and tearing out my "hospital" hat that I knitted every time I went to see my Dad in the hospital then hospice.  It was full of sadness, tears, and helplessness.  Not something you want in a gift.  The next time you receive a knitted gift, remember that love and kindness was put into every stitch.

 By the way, I have started a team up for Tour de Fleece.  It's the Team of Wonder.  Come join the fun. I'll write more about our group next week...but get a headstart and join now.

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