Sharing Instructions on How to Knit With the Next Generation
Always giving instructions on how to knit? Share that knowledge through community service!
If you're the type of person who always finds themselves giving instructions on how to knit anyway -- impromptu seminars to colleagues, friends, and family -- then why not think about teaching knitting as a community service project? You'll be amazed how many people are eager and excited to learn this age old craft. What a great way to combine your love of knitting with helping others!
Where can you share this love? The only limit is your imagination! Still, here are some great ideas to get you started.
1. Classrooms
Teachers are always looking for new things to teach their students. Even if a teacher knows how to knit, though, s/he might not be anxious to try giving instructions on how to knit to twenty eleven-year-olds. That's where you come in! Get a group of volunteers together, head into a room, and teach them simple knitting steps (think coasters!). Chopsticks and bargain store yarn make this an easy, inexpensive project.
2. Retirement Homes
We all have a set idea in our minds of elderly ladies with their knitting needles flashing. Still, there are many older women who never learned the craft -- and would like to. Even if they don't need a teacher, many elderly people need a friend. Just stopping by to spend a friendly hour with your needles clacking can make a huge difference.
3. Hospitals
Children and adults alike face prolonged hospital stays, with the boredom and monotony of illness stretching before them. Why not lighten that load by giving them instructions on how to knit? Spend time with some young cancer patients and you'll not only give them the fun of learning a new skill, but you'll provide them with an activity to fill the long hours ahead!
4. Churches
Many churches provide outreach programs for people living in poverty. Providing some knitting classes for a local church gives you the opportunity to teach people a useful skill they can use not only for their families, but to provide income. In this case it's about more than a new skill: it's about exercising creativity and a discovering a sense of accomplishment and self-worth.
These are only four choices -- the possibilities are endless! If you love to give instructions on how to knit, why not put that love to work helping others?
