Time Travel Tuesday -- the 40 Days Edition

Ann is once again doing 40 Days For Others this year. It's a very good idea, & fits nicely with something I've got in the works. (Plus I've also started a hat for the Hats For Kids challenge by my local Knitting Guild)

All this, plus this week's Sticks & String essay about time & knitting, got me thinking about my grandmother's charity work, & my mother's. Charity work is a commitment of time, given for other people. (As opposed to charity donations, i.e. money for other people.) Both of my grandmothers were very involved in church charity work, but only one of them got involved in charity handwork. My dad's mother made baby quilts for AIDS babies. I'm not sure if she ever did any charity knitting, but I'd put charity sewing & quilting into the same general catagory. My mother doesn't knit very much, but in the past year she has completed a shawl for her church's prayer shawl ministry.

Charities need both time & money to stay running. Knitting for charity gives them both, in a way.