IN the spirit of community involvement, fourth and fifth class at our school worked together with locals and family members to learn the old art of knitting. We ‘craftbombed’ a tree in the garden to enhance the school grounds.
One day at the start of October in St Benedict’s and St Mary’s School, Kilbarrack, our teacher Ms Merry and some neighbours, parents and grandmothers set up a knitting program for fourth and fifth class to learn how to knit.
One Tuesday evening, Ms Merry brought us down to the parents’ room.
Some people’s grandmothers were there, some people’s mams were there and there were some neighbours there too. They had needles and brand new wool and we felt a bit confused but when we got the hang of it we were fine!
First, we learned how to knit, then darn, and some learned how to cast on and cast off. There were some people dropping stitches but apart from that we were fine and we had lots of fun.
We learned how to make pom poms which are balls of fluff that don’t fall apart, with the teacher’s mam-in-law. She was great. She brought in big huge thick needles too and some people used them and some didn’t. Then she brought in a crochet needle and thought us how to crochet too.
A woman called Eileen taught us how to darn and Deon, Nikita, Tegan, Jack and I learned how to darn which was great.
The last day of ‘craftbombing’ was the sad bit but it was time. All of us had great fun. All the ladies that did knitting went out and ‘craftbombed’ the tree. Claire helped us make pom poms, she brought in stuff to make huge pom poms. Three people made them and hung them on the tree.
When the tree was done all of us and the ladies went out and took pictures of the tree, and one with the ladies and one without the ladies. The tree looks amazing, great and OUTSTANDING!
By Dylan Blount, fifth class pupil