Today we had our second keepers at home meeting. I am so loving this! Today another mom, Shona, lead the devotion and the lessons. We learned about knitting! What a great day we had together. Now, knitting is rather big over here in AU,  back home- I can’t really think of anyone I know that knits. Here there are heaps of mums that knit all the time and make sweaters, hats and all that good stuff to keep their families warm. Man! I want to knit together a sweater for my kids to wear- that was knitted with love in each stitch! so since I have wanted to learn for a while now and was so excited to see Keepers offers it as a lesson, I scheduled our first knitting class for now, in autumn, so we can perhaps knit a few things to use this winter. (did I mention that I am loving this?)

“ That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God.”  Colossians 2:2   

Our meeting started off with us singing the Keepers song and then the girls that finished their last projects showed them and told us all about them. It was great to see the different types of projects the girls did with their Candlewicking. They all shared how they finished their projects off and we passed them around for everyone to “oohh” and “aahhh” over.

Then Shona gave a little devotional about knitting, using the Keepers verse about being knit together in love and being knit in our mothers womb, and she showed us the project that she chose for us to work on. It was great! She found a mission project for us for our knitting. We will all be making a little tiny sweater to send to Africa for aids babies to wear home. Currently, they are sent home wrapped in newspaper. Well, if that didn’t pull at our heart strings! We are all gung ho for making these for the babies.

Then it was time for the education: Shona taught us about some different types of needles, the different type of yarn, how to choose our wool and how to cast on, knit and pearl. A few of the moms already knew how to knit and to some of us it was completely new. We worked on those basics for a little while, some of us really having a hard time with the whole thing. (Yours truly to be exact- I was hoping that Addison would pick it up easily so she could work with me (lol) )

So, now our goal during this fortnight is to practice those stitches a lot and if possible to work out the first part of the sweater. We will continue with our knitting lesson at our next meeting on the 19^th.