Knitters fire up for the needy

COOMOORA Primary school students and their families embarked on their first knitting challenge this year and the results will keep the needy warm this winter.
Seven weeks ago the students set themselves a challenge to knit at least 180 15-centimetre squares to be made into blankets for the Benevolent Society to distribute to the needy in Springvale.
Eager to begin the Knit a Square project, students spent their lunchtimes at knitting classes as knitting became the craze at Coomoora.
Each Monday at assembly students received a badge for every square they completed. Over 400 squares were knitted. Parents then sewed the squares together into 17 blankets.