thank you so much to everyone who has helped me out with moving costs by ordering from my store, or by telling others about the sale. i really superduper appreciate every single order, you’ve all added a nice much-needed chunk to my moving fund!
sorry posting will continue to be infrequent and short throughout this moving period. no project tutorials for a little while. but once we’re settled in portland, i’m sure the new environment will inspire many neato posts…
it wouldn’t be right for me to go into any detail in this public blog, but there has been a kind of crisis in my family which i have no experience with, and no one to turn to for advice on how i can help. if there is anyone reading this who has helped a loved one through an addiction recovery, i would be grateful for suggestions. i have read that knitting/crochet can be a great thing for recovery and, being a crafter, it makes perfect sense to me. i want to make him a crochet package (because i think crochet is easier to learn, from my experience) with a hook, some yarn, and a how-to book, but i don’t know if he will take it seriously or give it a chance. my email is leethalkoala at yahoo dot com.
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Hey, stumbled onto you from KNITTY, my fave knit place. I just read the post about having a crisis with an addiction in your family. We went through this a few years ago with my niece when she was 16. She was cutting, burning with cigarettes, promiscuous, drugging, drinking, smoking. A teen totally out of control Anyway, she was sent to a residential place in Utah, and there they taught the girls to crochet. And boy, oh, boy, did she!!! I even sent yarn out to her when her mom went to see her. She returned alive and sober after about 16 months, with a hugeeeee bag full of crocheted stuff. I can’t tell you how much yarn I have given her since she came home, she is constantly crocheting and ALIVE. We love to scroll through Knitty or search the web for stuff. It is something we share that is non-judgmental, she can crochet, I knit. we share yarn, talk about patterns, talk about all the stuff we want to make, our favorite colors to wear. Creating is a great way to get someone to think about something else besides their problems. And, once they are successful, they feel so good about themselves. She loves to make blankets for her friends who are now all in the baby stage. Drag out the yarn, save a life. no kidding…. Hope it all goes well. Dianne
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Hey, stumbled onto you from KNITTY, my fave knit place. I just read the post about having a crisis with an addiction in your family. We went through this a few years ago with my niece when she was 16. She was cutting, burning with cigarettes, promiscuous, drugging, drinking, smoking. A teen totally out of control Anyway, she was sent to a residential place in Utah, and there they taught the girls to crochet. And boy, oh, boy, did she!!! I even sent yarn out to her when her mom went to see her. She returned alive and sober after about 16 months, with a hugeeeee bag full of crocheted stuff. I can't tell you how much yarn I have given her since she came home, she is constantly crocheting and ALIVE. We love to scroll through Knitty or search the web for stuff. It is something we share that is non-judgmental, she can crochet, I knit. we share yarn, talk about patterns, talk about all the stuff we want to make, our favorite colors to wear. Creating is a great way to get someone to think about something else besides their problems. And, once they are successful, they feel so good about themselves. She loves to make blankets for her friends who are now all in the baby stage. Drag out the yarn, save a life. no kidding…. Hope it all goes well. Dianne
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