Christ Church Knitting Group It's not cast in stone. You don't have to sign anything. There are no dues, it's free. No one takes attendance, you can show up or not, it's up to you. Sometimes there's only a couple of people, sometimes we're crowded round the table like the close-knit group we are (snicker). Contrary to popular belief, the Christ Church Knitting Group is NOT a bunch of "70-years-old-plus" people sitting around eating pastries, drinking tea and other soft beverages, and yakking away about this and that and everything in between, all the while knitting scarves for seamen and hats and other clothing for infants (including blankets and pillows). It's not like that at all, no siree. There's a couple forty-year-olds there, as well. And sometimes a nine-year-old.

Linda Reiersen, John Walsted, and Martha Keucher, three of our group that sometimes numbers almost seven, quietly knitting away. It took over sixteen hours to get a picture of them quietly knitting away.

The knitting group meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month in the Vestry room. As indicated above, there's usually a pastry available (sometimes a home-made treat from John Walsted) and coffee, tea, juice, or other light refreshments. The Christ Church Knitting Group is open to the following:

• Experienced knitters.
• People who want to learn to knit.
• People who are knitters, but not so experienced.
• People who know how to macramé, but not knit.
• People who roam the streets aimlessly and have somehow found themselves in the Vestry room amongst knitters eating pastries and drinking tea while talking and knitting, and felt comfortable and welcome even though they are strangers, and decide they kind of like it here and then cause a scene when it's time to close up and go home.
• People who used to knit all the time but haven't lately and would like to get back into the knitting-saddle.
• People who believe that knitting is for old ladies and would be amused to see a large growling carnivore like Victor sitting there knitting with two telephone poles and a ship's mooring hawser.
• Bad knitters who want to improve.
• Good knitters who want to excel.
• Excellent knitters who want to poke fun at the rest of us.
• People who like pastries and tea but are not so partial to knitting, but maybe have a good joke to share.
• Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks.
• Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox.

If you fit into any of the categories above, or several categories, or no categories at all, you are welcome to join the Christ Church Knitting Group. We do not discriminate based on race, creed or color. We discriminate based on shoe size, so no ducks, clowns, or sasquatches, please. Everyone else is welcome. We hope to see you there. Actually, we wouldn't mind having a duck there. Or a sasquatch. But we're afraid we're going to have to draw the line at clowns.

A collection of hats and scarves produced by the Christ Church Knitting Group, soon to be found on the heads and around the necks of seamen around the world.