Our 2014 Loving with Looms Winner is …
Nancy Lambert inspired her friends and family with her selfless giving through the group Knitting Together in Charlottesville. They united to nominate her for this humble award. Read what they wrote and join us in congratulating this wonderful lady with lots of kudos and words of encouragement for her ongoing mission.
People like Nancy are the reason I love to work on this website. Loom knitting and charity work are my passion. Finding ways to encourage and supply those that share my devotion for this endeavor is very important and rewarding to me. I don’t personally know Nancy but she and those that love her have become very precious me. I am extremely happy to be able to give a little something to her ongoing work. She soooo defines this award.
Continue reading to learn more about Knitting Together and Nancy Lambert.
The Award and the Prizes
Rafflecopter randomly chose 3 Prize winners. Six Judges read the 3 winning blog post and decided who of the 3 Prize winners would be the Award Winner. That person was Nancy Lambert below is what she won.
- Six Piece Knifty Knitter Set with Slim Jim. For product details: Click HERE
- Two Skeins of Yarn. They will be an exact pair, same brand and same color.
- One Loom Knitting Pattern Book. May be different from the one in the picture.
- Two Yarn Sleeves. Awesome tool to protect your new yarn skeins.
- A $50.00 Amazon Gift Card !
- Award and Recognition for the winner and the organisation they represent every year for as long as the Loving with Looms Award exist.
The Winning Nomination
Hi Ms. Canela,
I would also like to nominate Nancy Lambert from the group “Knitting Together” in Charlottesville, Virginia. I am the youngest member of the group and in the two years that I have known Nancy, she has become like a grandmother to me. Nancy is always endlessly patient with me and my knitting blunders, and she loves to teach everyone in the group new techniques for loom-knitting. Although we all work very hard, Nancy is incredibly dedicated. She always crafts the most hats each week and she always has great ideas about getting our hats to those who need them most. She really cares about the cancer patients we donate hats to at the UVA Children’s Hospital, the Flourish Boutique at the UVA Emily Couric Cancer Center, and Jackson-Via Elementary School, and other charitable organizations, and she always seems to find that extra time to knit hats for anyone she knows who seems to be cold. Nancy is a truly wonderful person who has spent her entire life working to help others, from teaching at our Charlottesville city schools, to tutoring those children who need an extra hand with their studies, and now to loom-knitting hats. All of us in the “Knitting Together” group would be honored and thrilled to have Nancy recognized for her talents and for her generosity in devoting so much of her time and energy to loom-knitting hats for those in need. We all have fingers crossed that Nancy will win the Loving with Looms Award for 2014!
Anna
**** What others had to say about Nancy:
Nancy Teaching Others to Loom Knit
Nancy Lambert so deserves this award! Her enthusiasm about this project has encouraged others to learn and continue her good works. All of the 3 and 4 year olds at our school have beautiful, warm hats in their cubbies for the cold weather, thanks to Nancy. She is tireless in her devotion to children.
My vote is for Nancy Lambert!! She is a wonderful woman who does so much for the families in our community!!
I have known Nancy Lambert for 35 years and she always gives to others before herself. She is so deserving of the Looms Award. Her dedication and commitment to the students at Jackson-Via is incredible. Please consider voting for her for this award.
Nancy Lambert does everything with a keen eye for detail whether she is knitting a cap or organizing an event. She knits, she mentors, she cares!
Nancy Lambert is deserving of this award. She devoted her career to teaching students and now she devotes her retirement to volunteering in our school and knitting hundreds of beautiful hats for our students.
I have known Nancy Lambert since 1971 when we team taught third graders at a local Charlottesville elementary school; we have remained close friends. Even in the 70’s Nancy’s organization and craftiness was evident and, decades later in retirement, she’s not skipped a beat. Nancy is still giving to others in her volunteerism with children and with crafts. Her passion for the past several years has been Loom Knitting and she’s become a whiz, an expert, a speed demon, a mentor to others, a recruiter to the local group; you name it! This local group, “Knitting Together,” has a three prong approach to their donation of their beauteous hats, often themed for the season. They give to the children hospitalized in the Emily Couric Cancer Center, needy children in the community, and to the local branch of Needlework Guild of America (NGA, Inc) which donates warm clothing (including these loom knitted hats) to school clothing closets and social service agencies. Nancy, our local “Queen of the Loom,” is our mentor, our cheerleader, our recruiter, and our role model. We hold her in the highest regard and feel her most worthy of the “Loving With Looms” Award.
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If you are inspired to help Nancy and her group please visit theIR website for more information: Click HERE
This is what Susan Hennigan had to say about her group.
I would like to nominate the entire “Knitting Together” team in Charlottesville, VA.
Here’s why:
“Knitting Together” is an intergenerational knitting circle and is a team of loom-knitters (family and friends) crafting hats for children in need. The group had its humble beginnings when Ruth (a founding member) first discovered knitting looms and with guidance from your website knitted her first hat. We were all amazed at the astoundingly beautiful result. (Ruth can do anything under the sun, but this first hat was truly amazing.) Ruth quickly taught all of us the basics and we were hooked! But we had no idea what to do with the hats we were creating–until we looked just outside at the elementary school children heading off to school each morning in our neighborhood, many of whom had woefully uncovered (and presumably cold) heads. So Nancy (another founding member of the “Knitting Together” team) launched a program with the elementary school to donate our hats to those kids in need.
Our passion had suddenly developed a focus! We began meeting each Sunday morning to knit in earnest and to share stories of our lives (both to do with yarns, of course!) Many, many hats later, we discovered a wonderfully soft yarn for knitting baby blankets and clothes, and we found that the very small cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy at the University of Virginia’s Children’s Hospital loved the feel of this yarn on their heads–and we also learned that these children very much loved the big flowers, pompoms, and other embellishments we began adding to the hats, as well as the buttons featuring dinosaurs, silly animals and other creatures, and footballs that had become a staple on our hats. Our little group suddenly had another big mission!
To organize all of our efforts, we drafted Anna (also a founding member) to keep us on track in terms of hats promised, and the yarn and other supplies needed, and making sure we had fulfilled any special requests. Our little team has begun to expand, and we’re looking forward to fulfilling the recent requests for holiday-themed hats for the Children’s Hospital!
In sum, I respectfully request that the entire “Knitting Together” team be nominated for this award, and if not the whole team, then any one of its amazing members would be a great candidate.
THANK YOU!
Susi
SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR FOR THE 2015 LOVING WITH LOOMS AWARD
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Denise,
Are you doing a “Loving with Looms 2015?” If so, I’d love to be a judge again. I do a lot of loom knitting for charity, but I’d rather some other charity knitter got the recognition.
Congratulations, Nancy!!!
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