A gift in flowers

A few years back I began a Knit a Year project in Halton. One of the groups I met was the knitting group "Wednesday Woolies". The Knit a Year idea (knitting your moods each day for a year more info here www.knitayear.ning.com) largely fell of infertile ground within group. As we got to know each other a little better it became clear however that at the core of the group was the idea of giving. Be it knitting a jumper for a grandchild or knitting clothes for premature babies. Knitting and giving seem closely linked in general. A recent request I made for words knitters associate with knitting brought up words like contribution and friendship. It seems important for people in the group to knit for their own serenity but having a sense of its purpose also seems important.

With this in mind myself and one of the group members chatted about the idea of knitting flowers to get us through the winter months. But what would we do with them then? Who could we give them to? Hospices often can't host real flowers so a gift of our knitted flowers seemed like a sensible solution. The knitters knitted and sent me their beautiful flowers, as individual and delicate as the real things. The flowers now wait in bouquets ready for our visit to the local hospice.

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