Anyone who has read the New Testament will be familiar with the parable of the talents. This landowner/boss gives three of his trusted servants the some talents (a unit of money) one of them takes the money and invests it and gets a good return. One of the others takes it to the bank and puts it in for safe keeping and earns a little interest. And the third buries his talents in the field so they will be safe.
Well of course you know the boss came back and was very happy with the first guy. Not so much with the second; and he kicked the third guy to the curb.(wouldn’t you just love to have me paraphrase the whole Bible this way..hehhe) How does this all relate to knitting? you are asking yourself right now…. well I will tell you.
At the church conference I just went to they had a program called multiply your talents (in this case it means both talents and money) they give you $5 and you take it as seed money and invest in something that you can use, related to your talents and multiply the money in that way. Then at the end of the year you bring the money you made to the conference and it goes into the On Earth Peace fund of the church.
So I am looking for away I can ‘multiply my talent’. It is apparent that I have some talent in the loom knitting design arena. So I am looking for someone to sell me a large amount of yarn cheap!! I would like to design a scarf/shawl that is in some riverly colours. You know peace like a river and all that… I would use that yarn to design the sample piece and then sell the patterns (and the finished piece) to raise money for the fund. I would also like to do a needle knit version as well, to spread the joy! So any takers? anyone have some nice river colored yarn they want to give up for $5??
Please let me know! I am very excited to get this seed money growing!
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