I am so excited! I'm going to teach knitting one day a week to kids and teenagers, age 10-18, who are in treatment foster care. One girl already knits dishcloths and the rest just want to learn. I have to get fingerprinted first believe it or not then the class will start after school ends. I've been thinking about projects and I think I'll knit up a few possible items and have each kid pick what they want to do. One possibility will certainly be a Spontaneous Scarf. A few of my students may be disabled so I will try to offer a wide variety of projects for different skills. I'm going to go through my stash tomorrow and pick out some fun yarns and needles they can use.









Here's a photo of my knitting organizer. It is a fishing tackle box I bought at Walmart for less than $3 and I really like it. It holds my Burt's Bees lemon cuticle cream, tapestry needles, stitch markers, Eucalan, bobbins, crochet hooks, hand cream, measuring tape and other odds and ends. I don't know why but I am not knitting as much lately. I think it is because of my lack of knitting-related purchases for Lent. Perhaps buying new things makes me more motivated to knit? Ah well only 1 1/2 more weeks.



I did sneak over to Elann today. I know I'm just torturing myself by even looking but those discounted Bryspuns caught my fancy. I'd probably break them though. I used to have a wonderful collection of Balene double-pointed needles (now going for huge sums on Ebay) but I broke most of them over time. They felt so wonderful in the hands and had really neat points.