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Once again Streetknit is participating in World Wide Knit in Public Day on June 9th. This year we’ll be breakfasting at non prescription cialisbrand viagra 100mgWise Daughters – with breakfast sponsored by local Junction businesses cialis for daily usebuying cialis onlineLocomotive and canadian pharmacy viagracialis onlineTea Blendz, and live jazz piano provided by Michelle Willis! Check brand cialis online no prescriptioncheap cialishere for more details.

Then we’re off to Nathan Philips Square to join the Downtown Knit Collective for the cialis for daily usecialis indiaafternoon.  Come by and see us – we’ll be accepting donations and have yarn and needles available if you want to join us for some very public knitting!

In other news StreetKnit is now on Twitter!  Follow us @StreetKnit!

This Sunday, September 25th, Streetknit is holding a knitup at the Leslieville Farmer’s Market. Come on down anytime between 9 and 2, bring a chair and your knitting, chat with other knitters and enjoy the market!

Streetknit will be providing yarn for those who want to make something for the homeless and we’ll even have a few things on the go if you just want to do a few rows.

Directions to the market can be found here.  Hope to see you Saturday!

Every year, knitters congregate at a Jays game to watch baseball and knit.  This year, Stitch’n Pitch is being held on Wednesday July 20th and Streetknit will be there!  Drop by our table and say hi and feel free to bring in any donations you may have!  Here are some details, courtesy of Haley over at Knitomatic:

This past Tuesday I was invited to visit a knitting circle held at the Kennedy and Eglinton branch of the Toronto Public Library.  I was made most welcome by a lovely bunch of ladies of all ages and thoroughly enjoyed myself!  So much so that I’m going to ask my local branch if they would be interested in hosting one!  A few bags of yarn as left for the knitters to turn into hats and scarves for Streetknit (let me know when you run out ladies, I have lots!) and I’m looking forward to my return visit to pick up the completed items and to spend some time knitting in such good company.  A huge thank you to Marie for organizing the knitting group and for inviting me over!  If you live near Kennedy and Eglinton, stop by on Tuesday nights between 6 and 8 – all knitters (and even crocheters!) are welcome.

Just a reminder that this Sunday is the Streetknit Yarn Swap, scarf relay, International Yarn Bombing Day and Worldwide Knit in Public Day.  Come on down to Wise Daughters and join in!

And next Saturday, June 18, the lovely folks at The Purple Purl are hosting their own Worldwide Knit in Public event (really, it’s more of a WWKIPWeek than Day) at Leslie Grove Park (Queen and Jones, in the heart of Leslieville).  A Charity Knit-out is scheduled and Streetknit will be the recipient of all those donations!  They’ve organized free hat and mitt kits for you to come down and put together and there are instore incentives if you finish your donation within two weeks.  So bring your needles (4.0, 4.5, 5mm) and probably a lawnchair and spend a couple of hours in the sun (hopefully), enjoying the company of likeminded folks!  Many thanks to Jennifer and the rest of the staff at the Purple Purl for organizing this event and for choosing Streetknit as their charity of choice.  Hope to see you there!

From time to time I get donations of yarn – old stashes, odds and ends and whathaveyou. Some of this yarn is highly practical and useful for Streetknitters and is passed on at knitups or to various groups. But some of the other yarn is of a fancier variety. Since it’s currently occupying space in my basement, I’m pleased to announce that this coming June 12 (Worldwide Knit in Public Day), Wise Daughters will be hosting the first every Streetknit Yarn Swap. Bring us your practical, your conservative, your everyday yarn and trade it in for some fluffy, fantastic, fabulous stuff! We’ll trade balls of yarn one for one, but if you bring in a hand knitted donation for Streetknit, then we’ll trade it for two balls of your choice. Come early for the best selection – supplies are limited!  You can also participate in the scheduled yarn bombing and we’ll be having a scarf knitting marathon too!  Hope you can join us!

Worldwide Knit in Public/International Yarn Bombing Day Party
Sun, June 12, 1:00 – 5:00

Wise Daughters Craft Market

3079B Dundas Street West, Toronto

in the heart of the Junction!

I received this email a few weeks ago but due to a vacation and some family complications, I haven’t had a chance to post it.  So without further ado, from St Felix Centre to all of you knitters out there, a big thanks!

Dear Sadie,

On behalf of everyone here at St. Felix Centre we want to send a big huge THANK YOU to you and all your knitters, for the hats and scarves brought to us by Bambi Rutledge.  The day after the bag arrived the temperature went to -22 and we were able to give hats and scarves to three men who live on the street.  They couldn’t believe it.  Alex, who is a lovely soft spoken man, with a good education, who lives with serious depression, said quietly to me – “these are so lovely and you can tell they’re hand made and in good wool.  I can’t tell you how much this means to me or how I can thank you.”.

I think Alex has said it all. You have all made a real difference in a wonderfully tangible way.  And when all is said and done, there’s not much more in the world that could be more important is there?

Paddy Bowen.

Paddy Bowen

Executive Director

St. Felix Centre

And in other news, I will be on Canada AM this coming Monday morning (Jan 31), talking about Streetknit and the great things that all of you knitters out there do every day for those in need.  Without you guys, a lot of people would have colder heads, hands and toes.  If I haven’t said it recently, thanks for your support of Streetknit!

A quick (though late) update on this.  My appearance on Canada AM was delayed to tomorrow (Thursday Feb 3).

Got some extra yarn hanging around from another project?  Here’s a quick hat pattern to use it up, courtesy of one of the attendees at the monthly Streetknit knitup.