Most Mondays from 3 to 5pm a group of ladies gather in a large room on the third floor of our church's classroom wing to enjoy FFF (Faith, Fiber and Fellowship). We each work on our own projects. Mine is weaving or stitching, others do beautiful crochet and knitting projects. Some items are for personal use, others are donated, usually to be given as prayer shawls for those who are sick or grieving. Needless to say, where there is yarn work, excess yarn accumulates and accumulates and accumulates some more. Today we were tasked with the job of cleaning out the years of accumulated yarn (not all ours) from a large storage room across the hall from our meeting room. Our head custodian is feeling the need for more storage space. I hate to tell him, but when the yarn is gone, it will just fill up with other stuff. You know this happens at home, and just as surely at church. So ten of us gathered, pulled out all of the yarn from the storage space, took what we wanted for ourselves, friends and family members and sorted through the rest of the stash to decide what to donate, what else we wanted, and, alas, what should be thrown away. I came away with a fairly large bag of yarn for my next few projects, a few things for my granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law and two large containers of stuff to donate to the Dove's Nest, one of my favorite local charities. If none of this gets put to good use, i really won't care. I did my bit to get it out of the church.
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