A Red Scarf Story

Here's an email I just received:

Norma:

Here are pictures of three red scarves which I mailed off yesterday. I have been quite taken by the Red Scarf Project - It appeals to me in a way that no charity knitting ever has before. I only got started in late November and I had a lot of Christmas knitting, weaving, quilting and metalworking to do so I was limited to creating three scarves. I have set myself a goal of one per month in 2007.

Christine N. from Nova Scotia

Pattern: Here and There Cables from Scarf Style

Yarn: wool/silk from the stash - there are 7 more skeins

Pattern: Grumperina's Shifting Sands

Yarn: Briggs and Little Regal

Pattern: simple stockinette with garter stitch border

Yarn: Mountain Colors 4/8 wool in Ruby River

Norma:  ::jaw dropped::  I'm in awe. They are so gorgeous, from a lovely northern neighbor.  Thank you so much from all of us, Christine!

We love reading your stories.   Please leave a comment to any of the posts telling us what motivated you to knit for this project.

Comments

[sandy]

JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! There are some lucky necks out there about to receive these great scarves!

[Carol]

Hi Norma,
Two scarves are being mailed tomoorow! They are here:
http://knit-and-run.blogspot.com/2007/01/wedding-bell-blues-and-hot-flashes.html

[Kay]

Okay obviously I need to up the style quotient for my scarves. Stunning work! No economizing on yarn or workmanship for charity knitting---that's the right spirit, I think.

Why I knit for Red Scarf (other than the obvious reason (The Terror of The Norma)): I love the idea of a beautiful, tough young person wearing my beautiful, tough (and young)knitting. The pictures Gale Zucker took last year removed all doubt that this was an amazing project to knit for. Not that there was any doubt. Norma. I never doubted. Honest.

xox Kay

[Beth in STL]

I'm knitting for the RSP, because I could have been one of the recipients, if life had been just a little different. I was adopted as a baby, and I was blessed by the most wonderful mother (who taught me to knit when I was seven). Reading about the young adults trying to create their own lives with little or no help made me intensely grateful for my adopted family and all the support they've given me.

Two scarves down, waiting on blocking wires before I box them up and mail them. I'd knit more, but all yarn purchases are on hold for now.

[Marcy Taitz]

I think it's great that this project benefits older kids who are not so often the focus of giving. They can so easily feel forgotten when they are no longer as small and cute as the babies that so many of us knit for! If we can give them the encouragement and emotional support to keep trying to succeed in their very challenging goals, we can make a difference in a way that we can all afford.
As a child in sleepaway camp, I remember how some kids got lots of mail and packages and others got very little. Although we were all much luckier than the foster kids in college, those of us who got fewer goodies sent to us felt deprived by comparison. I remember feeling this way although my parents were very good and caring, but not materially wealthy or inclined to spoil me with candy and trinkets! So in a way I can relate to the kids who benefit from this project.