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I once did a knitting club. We called it Knit Wits. We'd knit and tell jokes. For those who could no longer knit, I had a memory box full of old patterns, different types of wool (some of which needed to to wound up) and assorted finished knitted projects (hats, mitts,
scarves, baby clothes)
Fantastic idea, well done
Hi Nicole
Thanks for sharing this
We have elected to start and knitting club and as had been mentioned before people who can no longer knit or crochet can come be mentors for other people including staff.
We have named our group Get Knitted and hopefully will be kicking it off this week.
Wow Monica
How wonderful and ambitious of you to do this
Please let us know how it goes
Thank you for sharing this and for all you do
We have a Knitting Group that meet weekly even those who could not knit anymore come just for social or a chat for an hour then have afternoon tea together it’s a good way also to include a new resident make them feel included.
This is lovely to hear Seru. Yes it's so nice to be around people with similar interests even if they can't participate any longer.
Can you please let me know where I can get free online knitting patterns for animals? thanks
Hi Dilhani
I found this on Pinterest
animal pattern crochet
https://woolpatterns.com/spring-bunnies-free-crochet-patterns/
You also might want to ask the Facebook group for Golden Carers
https://www.goldencarers.com/activities-for-seniors-facebook-group/4782/
You also may want to try this
https://www.goldencarers.com/how-to-make-twiddlemuffs/5015/
Residents with the intention and interest for knitting gathering together for afternoon, could be themed by season, event, charity's, etc.
Thanks Inga, we have added your activity idea to an existing one. Thanks for sharing!
We do this at Karingal in Tassie each Monday afternoon, and the group has grown from 2 - 14 each week. Lovely conversation group and they have produced such wonderful item for charity
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We have this activity, fortnightly, depending on what project we have going at the time, it is a great interaction activity for staff and residents, our residents make things to sell on our craft stall and to put things in our local show, we have quite a big group now 12-15 somedays, they don't want the afternoon to finish, a big success
We do something similar at our facility however everything we make we donate to the local ronald mcdonald house & when we have a box of stuff the residents that made it make a trip & hand deliver it to the sick kids the residents love to see the little kids faces
This is a wonderful idea. At our Day Centre last year we knitted squares and made them into blankets for the animal welfare league and donated them. Also old blankets and towels were cut into smaller sizes so they could be used as towels to wash the shelter animals. we visited the centre with our clients and saw how the shelter was run and ofcourse the animals who would benenfit from the blankets in winter.
Now is the time to knit those squares ready for winter if any body else might be interested in doing the some sort of thing.
cheers debbie