One of my long term (we don't like to say "old") knitting students is Dyan. She is a teacher in a community school. It's the kind of school that kids go to when they have committed a crime or otherwise gotten themselves kicked out of regular school. When they come to Dyan she confronts them (and their parents) with their transgressions and usually makes them cry. The other thing she makes them do is knit. All of them have to knit, even the boys who seem to like knitting better than the girls.
The classroom has a lounge area with a couple of couches. You can imagine that those couches get a lot of abuse.
I replaced my living room couch recently and donated it to Dyan's class. The reverse side of the drawing had a "thank-you" from each of Dyan's kids and as you can see one of them has mad drawing skillz too!
oh BTW, that floral couch you see in the drawing was replaced with two leather chairs...much different.
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4 comments:
What a cool story! Dyan sounds like an amazing person. That was nice of you to donate your old sofa too.
sweet story! i'm glad dyan makes all those "trouble" kids knit. it'll keep their hands busy doing something constructive (hopefully).
What a sweet story. Dyan sounds like the type of knitter we all need to know. I had a couple of sofas I could have donated. I should have thought of something like that...
What an awesome use of a "loved" couch. I bet she was ecstatic.
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