Friday Afternoon Knitting Club

Yesterday was our Friday Afternoon Knitting Club. Only two girls remembered to bring the needles and yarn. One girl, who had said she couldn't afford a pair of knitting needles and a skein of yarn, and so I bought her some, still didn't have her things with her, so she sat and watched.

I was disappointed that only two girls were prepared, and that again no boys came. Jose told me he has yarn and needles. But he couldn't come today because he was doing "community service" at lunch time (that means picking up trash) for writing the word "ass" in a National Geographic Explorer magazine above a picture of a spider monkey who was hanging upside down by its tail over a pool of water. He had tried to erase it, which just removed all color from the picture, leaving an obvious white streak. So once again he couldn't attend for trouble-making behavoir. That kid is making some bad decisions.

I guess perhaps I didn't talk it up enough. I'll do that next week, and encourage kids to have their needles and yarn at school. Then they could knit during free time. I also told kids they could invite friends. I hope more kids will come. There had been lots of interest about it originally, so we'll see.