Time To Keep Kids Warm!

It’s started – our fall charity knitting project is underway! Keeping Kids Warm is The Knitting Nest’s project for this fall. We are making hats and mittens for school kids who need them.

Check out this post for all the details. Now’s the time to get your knitting/crochet groups together and come purchase yarn for your projects! We have patterns if you need them. We’ll be accepting items for the prize drawing up till December 15, but we’ll continue to accept items to give to the schools all through the winter.

So, get knitting and crocheting!! Let’s Keep Kids Warm this winter with The Knitting Nest!!

Meet Frank!!

The Knitting Nest would like to present the newest member of our team, Frank the Yarn Bombed Scarecrow! Frank joins Birdie, our mascot, in welcoming customers to our little corner of the yarn world.

How did Frank get here, you’re wondering? The Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a scarecrow contest and Frank is The Knitting Nest’s entry into that contest.

Last Thursday night, we started with a PVC frame, a few bits of knitting, and a bunch of yarn. With the help of some M&Ms and lots of creativity, we managed to yarn bomb the living daylights out of that frame!! And look what came into being – Frank!

 

 

 

I’m not so sure Frank is going to be scaring anyone anytime soon – although Birdie looks a little skeptical of his presence. Really, I think he’s more cute than scary.

What now? There are scarecrows in and around lots of Waupaca area businesses, so check them all out. On the bottom of the frame is a can where you can donate money that will go to the Waupaca Area Food Bank. You can also go inside the businesses and sign up for a drawing for a gift certificate – no purchase necessary. The business with the most support for their scarecrow will win an advertising package from the Waupaca Area Chamber, so send all your friends and neighbors over to meet Frank!

And now, can you guess how Frank got his name??

Scaring Crows? Scaring Something? Maybe!

The Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce (of which The Knitting Nest is a member) is having it’s annual “Scarecrow Contest”. As a participant, we have a really cool PVC frame that we get to decorate to look like a scarecrow. And, being a yarn shop with craft supplies and creative people, I’m betting we’ll have some serious fun and make one heck of a scarecrow in the process!

Here’s how things work: Tomorrow night, October 11, at our regular Stitch night time of 7pm, whoever is feeling inspired can come by with any knitted, crocheted, “yarned”, or other creative item or material to donate to our scarecrow and we will commence with the decorating. We can clothe this guy or gal; we can yarn bomb him/her; we can make the dude/dudette scary/silly/crazy. Let’s just make the scarecrow memorable!! If you bring clothing items that you want back, make sure they are from yarn that can stand up to the weather because our scarecrow is going to be sitting outside in the weather and, um, scaring . . . something . . . I guess.

And, what’s the point of all this, you may wonder (besides a chance for Catherine to pull out a stash of holiday M&Ms)? The Waupaca Area Chamber has several great reasons:

1. You can go around the Waupaca area and look at all the scarecrows, which is good for local businesses. Like us – yay!!

2. As you look at the scarecrows, you can donate money to the can on the bottom of the frame. All proceeds go to the Waupaca Area Food Bank. Helping people going through a rough time – yay!!

3. You may go inside the businesses with scarecrows (like ours!) and fill out a drawing slip (no purchase necessary) for a gift certificate. Drawings will be done and winners announced on November 1, 2012. Free stuff – yay!!

4. The business that has the most support gets an advertising package from the Waupaca Area Chamber. Free advertising – yay!!

You may vote for your favorite scarecrow between 10/15-10/29. But, we need to make our scarecrow the best looking so that everyone will vote for him/her/it, so stop in tomorrow night for some serious yarn fun!! Questions? Give us a call or check us out on Facebook and we’ll be happy to let you know how  you can help! So, come support local business Thursday night and then over the next few weeks as you see these scarecrows around town (but, remember, make sure to give ours more support)!

Keeping Kids Warm

One of the most rewarding things we can do with fiber arts (knitting and crochet) is to create for other people and enrich our community. This fall, The Knitting Nest will be partnering with local school systems to keep kids warm.

When kids don't have appropriate clothing to stay warm outside, not only are they cold to and from school, but they end up having to stay inside during recess. We can help! This fall, we'll be making hats and mittens that the teachers can give to kids who need them. Not only will the kids be warm at recess, but they can keep the items to wear outside at home and other times when they’ll be outside. 

How will this work? Stop by The Knitting Nest to pick up a pattern (if you need one) and purchase appropriate yarn. When you are finished with your project, bring it back to The Knitting Nest. We'll arrange to get all the knitted items to the Waupaca and Weyauwega school districts.

And there are incentives for our knitters!!

1. For each knitted or crocheted item that you bring to The Knitting Nest, you will have your name entered once for a drawing for a shawl stick handmade by Patrick Martin. So, one hat gets you one entry. One hat and one pair of mittens gets you two entries, and so on.

2. Here's an extra incentive for knitting groups. The group of 3-5 knitters or crocheters who turns in the most items will receive one $50 gift certificate for the entire group. So, start getting those groups together!!

We start on October 15 and will do our drawings on December 15. However, we will continue to accept items for the school districts throughout the winter.

BooFest!!

 

The third annual BooFest in Weyauwega will be Sunday, October 30 from 4-7pm on Main Street!  There will be lots of candy and fun!!  The Knitting Nest will be open and will be handing out candy and teaching finger knitting.  We’ll see you there!!