Following months of COVID-19 restrictions and ongoing social isolation, Grafton Library’s knitting group, Knit Wits, is back and they’re wrapped about it!

The group have celebrated their ability to meet face to face in a COVID-safe environment with a special group project for ANZAC Day.

During April the group worked together on two ANZAC-inspired green wraps featuring red poppies. One wrap will stay at Grafton Library for display and the other will be sent to Wrap With Love’s distribution center where it will be sent to someone in need of warmth during winter.

Regional Librarian, Kathryn Breward said it was wonderful to be able to host community groups back at the library.

“Social isolation has been a huge problem for our communities during COVID-19 restrictions, particularly seniors who are vulnerable in this pandemic,” Mrs Breward said.

“Our weekly knitting groups are a big social part of library life and we couldn’t be more pleased that they’re back and producing these wonderful wraps that make such a difference in people’s lives.”

The national non-for-profit organisation, Wrap With Love, began in 1992 with the idea to help as many people as possible by providing warm wraps to ward off hypothermia. In the past 23 years, over 400,000 wraps have been sent to people in over 75 countries, including Australia, with the help of hardworking and generous volunteers, including Clarence Valley’s Knit Wits groups, and the many Clarence ‘wrappers’ who work from home.

Just one square provides one twenty-eighth of warmth, and collectively, twenty-eight assembled squares create one whole warm and sheltering wrap.

Contact your local library for details on joining a Knit Wits group.

For those knitters unable to meet face to face, completed squares (10” X 10”) can be dropped at Grafton Library during opening hours in the ‘Wrap With Love’ wooden box next to the sliding glass doors into the library.