I love summer, but even with the return of warm weather this week -we were smoked with cool/rainy weather over the last week- the cooler stints at night lately are hinting at fall. I’m not trying to rush away summer, I simply love fall. I love the colours, the smells, the clothing, the holidays, and the food! I remember in the olden days I even liked going to school in the fall, and walking around Western’s massive campus. I love wearing sweaters and scarves, playing football in the park, having campfires making spider-dogs, and running through beautiful tree-lined streets…
What I also love about this season is how it revitalizes my knitting mojo! What does mojo even mean??? Obviously it breathes fresh life into my LOVE KNITS bones. I’m eager to pull out my coziest, albeit ugliest, sweater whose sole purpose is to keep me warm and motivated while knitting. It makes me want to gather people around for warm drinks, lessons, good chats and common dreams.
“I don’t know who you are, where you’re from, don’t care what you’ve done as long as you LOVE KNITS baby…” ~Backstreet Boys
I realize I might have just mis-quoted one of the most brilliant pop songs of our age, but if it had been around back then I am sure they would have endorsed it. Seriously check out www.loveknits.ca and read up on the vision and mission then dream up a way to give it wings in your immediate surroundings: dorm, school, home, community, church, workplace, local coffee shop etc. Find somewhere there’s a need- a shelter, an orphanage, a family- and serve into it. The community cultivated, skills learned and service encouraged will seriously effect your heart. There’s nothing more fulfilling than creating something with your own hands and having it severely bless someone else. Why not start in simple, practical, lovely ways like knitting or crochet?
If there’s a will, there’s a way. I just think we need more wills : )
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JR
*The movie above is simply a history of LOVE KNITS through pictures since it’s birth in 2007!
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