Carver Early College students have rallied together to do something for those less fortunate this winter season, and they need your help. A club called Knitting for the Needy, consisting of 58 members, has started knitting hats and scarves for homeless shelters in the Atlanta area. The club just started three weeks ago and already has made 16 hats and 14 scarves. These hats and scarves will be donated in next week to Covenant House off of Lakewood Parkway, which serves 15 to 21 teenagers in the school’s district. None of the members knew how to knit prior to the first meeting on Oct. 26, but the enthusiasm has grown from weekly afterschool meetings to daily lunch meetings — which have come to be referred to by students as “Knit and Nibble.”
With the help of the art teacher, Catrina Dillard, students have learned to knit scarves and hats with needles and looms. Dillard got the idea last year when her sister-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer. “After several treatments of chemo and radiation, she lost her hair,” Dillard said. “I knitted her a few hats because she claimed the wigs were itchy. I thought it would be awesome to knit hats for cancer victims. The idea morphed into knitting hats and scarves for the homeless as I talked to students about it. It took me all of last year and the first quarter of this year to collect donations and supplies.”