Caught up!

Finally! After six days I have read all of the messages that accumulated while I was gone. Now I have something to share. I cannot knit for the next five days, because I have cross-stitching to do. As most of you know, I am a leader in a Sparks unit (the youngest Girl Guides in Canada, aged 5 and 6). This year, all three of us leaders are retiring. One is pregnant, one has taken a new job with more responsibilities, and I just don't want to work with new people, as I have gotten on so well with these two. So, we have decided to make a memento for our little girls, and we are cross-stitching trefoils in pink for each one. Pink is the official colour of Sparks. Even though they are quite small, each one takes two hours of stitching, so my knitting has to be laid aside temporarily. They will look lovely when they are done, I think.

Katherine

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Katherine
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Hi Katherine,

Wow, what a lot of reading you have been doing to catch up. LOL Oh, I bet the little ones will cherish the trefoils that you are making. Tom has a stencil of them and put them on our front door windows.

Hugs,

Nora

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norabalcer

Hi, Nora.

Well, what I did was this: Each time I sat at the computer, I read 50 messages, and didn't reply to very many. That way, I was able to keep just ahead of the incoming posts and eventually catch up.

This is the only time that we have made such mementoes for the girls, and I do hope that they will be kept safely for the future.

Hugs, Katherine

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Katherine

Katherine, it sounds like a lovely poject, and I am sure that the kids are going to treasure your little creations. Nice to do something else for a while. I have done a lot of knitting for the grand kids, but now I am back to weaving again, nice to come back to. The knitting is waiting in the side lines for you

Happy stitching

Els

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Els van Dam

Waiting for me and screaming at me! LOL

Katherine

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Katherine

Put the yelling knitting away in a dark closet and close the door, enjoy the embroidery. No yelling allowed...LOL

Els

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Els van Dam

Thank you, ELs. I shall do just that! I have completed the second trefoil and started the third. Whew!

Katherine

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Katherine

Katherine, Sorry to be so out of it, but what is a trefoil? Brenda

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Brenda Harris

Brenda, Are you familiar with the Girl Guide Association? The international symbol for it is a trefoil - or a three -leaf clover. Here is a URL:

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are doing them in pink, as pink is the colour for the Spark uniforms. Sparks are the youngest members of the Association - at 5 or 6 years old. HTH Katherine

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Katherine

In the US the youngest is the Daisy after Juliet Lowell's nick name.

JM2C

JJMolvik

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JJMolvik

Who is Juliet Lowell? Here, Lady Baden Powell is recognized as the founder of the Girl Guide movement, as her husband, Lord Baden Powell is the founder of the Boy Scout movement.

Katherine

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Katherine

In the UK they're called Rainbows and wear red tabards with rainbow motifs, at least they did when DD2 was small enough to belong. She really enjoyed it Love Christine

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Christine in Kent, Garden of

The tabards here are actually available in a several colours (it used to be a rainbow of colours but a couple of the less popular got discontinued) but all the girls in one unit wear the same colour.

In Australia they used to call them Gumnuts but some years ago changed the programme to abolish the age groups so they are now Guides from age 5 to 25.

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Ray Almond

Robert Baden Powell founded the Boy Scouts and when the girls showed up asked his sister Agnes Baden Powell to organise something for the girls. After his marriage his wife, Olave, became involved with the Guide movement (although she was first a scout leader) and took over from Agnes. In the spreading of Scouts and Guides from England to other countries there were lots of people involved. Juliet Low is credited with having taken the idea back to the USA 1911 after she had run a Girl Guide Company in Scotland and so is recognised as the founder of Girl Scouts America.

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Ray Almond

They wear pink tabards here, plus everything else pink. We use a rainbow as part of our ceremonies.

Katherine

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Katherine

Thanks, Ray. I have always been taught that Olave Baden Powell actually founded Guides. We have a picture of Lord and Lady Baden Powell on the wall of the hut, both of them in uniform.

Katherine

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Katherine

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