A local knitting and crocheting circle has pledged 100 blankets to Battlefords Early Childhood Intervention Program to be completed by mid-December.
The group, who haven't settled on an official name yet but will be hanging flyers with the moniker "Knit and Natter" around town, started meeting a few years ago as an offshoot to a Culture Days project that "yarn bombed" public spaces in North Battleford.
Last year, the group, made up of both knitters and crocheters, donated 100 knit toques to BECIP to distribute to children in the program in time for Christmas.
The blanket knitting project, founder V Sidebottom says, is a group effort. With some of the yarn taken from the members' own stock, much of the large amount of yarn needed to knit and crotchet the blankets was provided by Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Battlefords and the Mennonite Closet, who Sidebottom says have been supportive of the group's goal.
The group's founder adds that they've found support from Crandleberry's as well, which is where the group gathers in a ring of armchairs near the front of the café Tuesday nights at 7 p.m.
Anyone interested, with or without prior experience with knitting or crocheting, is welcome to join the circle to knit, chat, have a cup of coffee, or Sidebottom jokes "even to just get out of the house."
