Laura Jackson has been a member of the Beatrix Potter Society since 1992. The picture on left is in front of Hill Top, the first farm that children’s author Beatrix Potter purchased in the Lake District.

She will be displaying photographs taken in England, as well as many items from her Beatrix Potter collection, at the library during the month of April.

See photos.

As we enter the season of spring, we are winding down our mitten and hat donations to the Walker School, the WaldoCAP Headstart program, and the Belfast Soup Kitchen for the past winter.  We will still accept hand knit items to be distributed in the fall, so keep your needles and hands working when you are able through the upcoming months.  Smaller-sized mittens are most appreciated for Headstart and larger-sized ones for the Walker School.  They are so appreciated and keep the hands of our youngest residents warm! Hats, scarves and cowls are most appreciated for older Waldo county residents who are in need, and these are distributed through the Soup Kitchen.  We thank all of you so much for your efforts over the last few years.  We do make a difference!  Stop into the library and see the drawings the staff at Headstart sent us, done by the children whose hands we warm.  They are touching!

Simple 2-needle mittens: 3-4 yrs,  4-6 yrs, & 6-8 yrs.
A simple pattern for hats can be found here. Another Stockinette Watch cap pattern.

We also collect yarn and needles for Jen Gunderman who delivers these to organizations assisting New Mainers transitioning to life in Maine. They in turn make hats and mittens for other refugees who are in camps awaiting permission to be allowed into other countries to begin making new lives for themselves and their families.

Several knitters are getting together informally to knit and chat on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 at the library. Anyone is welcome to join them.