This week, we’re loving the knitting feats of Jackie Millichap, 61, from Exeter. She said...
Looping the yarn around my knitting needle, I got to work.
Ican fix this, I thought, looking at the stitches which seemed alittle out of place.
Pouring all my passion into the project, it wasn’t long before I’d fixed the stitches.
Yet even though it wasn’t my project, Iwas still full of pride.
‘Here you go,’ I smiled, handing the project –the start of aknitted cardigan –back to the customer.
And beaming in response, Iknew I’d truly made adifference.
Helping customers fix their knitting projects after they’d gotten themselves in a muddle is something I’d been doing for the past four years as avolunteer at Wool on the Exe, awool shop in Exeter.
I helped fix their misplaced stitches
Having been akeen knitter for over 50 years, it’s acraft my grandmas Kathleen and Connie, and my mum Marian, taught me when Iwas little. And I’d carried on my beloved hobby into my later life, too, and Wool on the Exe was my go-to supply shop.
Stocking wool in every colour Icould ever need, it was the perfect pit-stop for my knitting supplies.
Yet Iknew Iwanted to do something more than just work on my own projects –especially as I’d recently retired.
‘What can Ido to be part of the shop?’ I asked the shop’s owner, Debbie, one day.
Learning that the staff didn’t always have the time to help customers with their own projects, it was a lightbulb moment for me. And that’s where Icame in. Running fortnightly Fix Your Stitch sessions, customers could pre-book a slot online to see me for
