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I don't remember anyone promoting to me the idea of learning to knit.

I do have memories of influential women in my life knitting. My mother died of cancer when I was eleven years old. I remember sitting at her feet as a child and holding a skein of yarn between my hands while she rolled the yarn into a ball.

My older sister was a very talented knitter.

My knitting projects have been limited to scarves and hats. My first hat was completed on the day of my employer's holiday party this last December.

I am so excited about the number of group activities that are on the K2TOG calendar. It's amazing to me that we have something going on every day of the week now!

So what did we find?

We found a new organic cotton line from Ecobutterfly, a company that matches beautifully to the K2TOG mission. These beautiful, organic, natural cotton yarns will be a treat to knit this summer.

As the weather gets colder, lots of people come in to the store driven by virtuous and commendable gift-making and -giving ideas. And a lot of the time, these same people fall in love with a new yarn, or a new shade of an old fave, or an exciting new pattern that they want for themselves. And then I get to witness their personal drama: the struggle between the desire to let creativity run free and the desire to at least appear disciplined, self-controlled, maybe even frugal?

Kristen Hanley-Cardozo took pictures of people with their projects that they made recently. Thanks to everyone who brought in their projects to show off.