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the blue Knitting Room

"Knitting strips until the wool runs out"

The aim of the blue Knitting Room is to help reduce depression by improving the quality of lifestyle and leisure programs for young people at risk and for older people, particularly those in residential care. All items in the blue Knitting Room are based on one simple shape which the participants can easily knit and use to make a series of objects of their own choice. Some beautiful pieces have been created, but the emphasis is on the creative process, in particular by getting people to talk to each other while working, rather than the final artifact.

Triabunna School "We wanted to learn to knit, we made Blue Poles with finger knitting" Shore Street Day Centre "Knitting strips until the wool runs out"
Aldersgate in Launceston "While we knitted dozens of squares we talked about what it meant to leave our homes and come into care."

Senior Momentum supports The Knitting Room organised by Strathcare by linking it to Maturity Blues.