Last Day... very somber...

Azusa Adult School has held its last day of class on Thursday June 9. 2010. All students participated and we had a nice morning, followed by a beautiful pot-luck lunch.

Sadly, due to budget cuts the Azusa Unified School District decided to cut all the arts classes including our knitting/crochet class to free up funds for its K-12 programs. Whereas I am very sad that this is happening, I do understand that educating children has a higher priority than teaching adults how to knit and crochet. I truly believe that the people responsible for the current educational crisis are all sitting in Sacramento and believing they did the right thing. For one or another reason each and every one of them had voted to allow adult education funding to be rerouted and used for K-12 programs anyway a district sees fit, hoping they can make themselves feel better for being such a dysfunctional bunch of clowns.

 

Here are the latest projects students worked on.
Below:
Fran's newest lace pattern scarf.

Sherry's Afghan, made of Amity yarn from Ella Rae

Luu's Baby set...

and lastly... I made this set for a three month old baby girl.

Luu made these adorable looking baby booties and hat. 

This nice looking pillow is the work of Hortensia, so is the colorful table cloth below. 

 

Hortensia also crochet this baby blanket. 

 

Luu made this elegant lace shawl.

The two gorgeous and elaborate pictures are needle point made by Denise.

Hats and more hats

Easy Cozy

Star Blanket

Ana's Star Blanket

Baby Blanket made by machine

Anna's perfect vest.

I made something little for my grandniece. The Blossom Jacket from the Looking-glass Knits 

Anita, modeling this gorgeous red scarf, which she made for grand daughter.

Another one of Anita's creations. The recipient of this cozy warm beanie must feel very lucky.

Pink Ladies....

Fran made this diagonal scarf with matching beanie out of a soft mohair acrylic yarn.

Do you know that Fran McDonald and Cherry Frost both are founding members of the Pink Ladies club? The Pink Ladies are a group of individuals devoting their time, money and expertise to help comfort cancer patients living in our local communities. Cherry and Fran both are very active knitting scarves and hats for all cancer patients treated at any of the Kaiser Foundations hospitals and health care centers.

Pilar and I joined the group back in the summer, which meets once a month at Kaiser Permanente in Baldwin Park in the basement. Members are people like you and me. Amongst the members are teachers, nurses, doctors, receptionists and other Kaiser employees. There are also former patients in the group who experienced firsthand the love and care this group has to offer. Regardless, we all have in one thing in common - namely our love to fiber and our desire to help others in need. It’s a great cause, and it gives back to the community you live in. Enriching the lives of seriously ill persons and letting them know you care is beyond words. So if you would like to donate your time making a scarf or beanie for the Pink Ladies’ causes, please do so. Yarn donations are also welcome. Since “hairless” heads are very sensitive, the material you choose should be very soft and lightweight. All colors are welcomed since the hats and scarves are going to ALL cancer patients, young and old, male and female. Cancer doesn’t discriminate; it can happen to every one of us.  ALL ABOUT YARN is donating FREE knitting/crochet lessons during their monthly meeting at Kaiser. Also if you purchase the yarn for your “Pink Lady” project at ALL ABOUT YARN you will receive a 10% discount, which is our thank you to you for giving towards a good cause.

Shawl, Scarf and Lakers Blanket

We are always busy doing something at the Azusa adult school knitting class. Ana made this cool looking Lakers Blanket.

Anita finished this beautiful scarf for her grand daughter.
Donna made another great looking shawl.