Spiritual People Creating Comfort and Warmth for Our Community with Needles and Yarn.
Volunteers create knitted and crocheted items for members and friends as well as people in the Durham-Chapel Hill area. Care shawls, block afghans, teddy bears, work caps, baby blankets, and much more.
Do you knit or crochet? Do you want to learn how to knit or crochet? Why not join ERUUF's Clicking for a Cause?
Who Are the Clickers?
We are women and men who enjoy working with yarn and needles to produce gifts for others.
What Is Our Ministry?
Our ministry is two-fold.
We encourage members and friends of ERUUF to transform the rhythm of knitting and crocheting into a spiritual practice.
Our love of needlework and our desire to serve move us to create tangible evidence of our community's care ministry. We design and create items both for people of our congregation and for people in the Durham community.
Our Projects:
Block Afghans We knit and crochet 7-inch X 9-inch blocks. We assemble these blocks into beautiful afghans for presentation. Afghans have been given to Housing for New Hope, Habitat for Humanity, TROSA, Threshold, Hope Meadows and Club Nova. Click HERE for instructions on how to make afghan blocks.
Teddy Bears A favorite at Duke Hospice, at local hospitals, and for ERUUF babies.
Children's Clothes Regular-sized sweaters, hats, baby blankets and booties. Families in need select clothing from the Giving Closet at Welcome Baby for children from newborn to age 3.
Prayer Shawls Given to the ERUUF Congregation and Duke Hospice. We use our blocks to make shawls as well as accept completed ones.
Watch Caps and Scarves Given to TROSA, Durham Shelter, Threshold and Meals on Wheels
Patterns for most projects may be found here. To see some our projects, click here or here.
Just getting started?
We have donated yarn, needles, and patterns, so you don't need to invest in materials until you're ready. Experienced people are available to help beginners.
The Spiritual Practice of Knitting and Crocheting
A spiritual practice is a regular activity that you use to come closer to life's mystery and to touch the "heart spaces" within you. While their hands are busy, some Clickers think about the people to whom their project will be presented. Others use the time to focus their minds and hands on the rhythm and motion, simply settling into the process of creation. Others say silent prayers. Some Clickers, especially knitters, like to use patterns in mutiples of three stitches—three being a sacred number in many faith traditions. "Clicking" is an opportunity to grow in spirit while creating gifts of comfort and love.
Meeting for Fellowship and Support
ERUUF CARE Building, Room 4/5.
2nd Monday every month, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Busy meeting to assemble afghans, collect finished items, exchange patterns and coordinate deliveries.
4th Monday every month, Drop in 5:30 – 7:00 PM. Chalice lighting at 6 PM.
Relaxing time for fellowship, working on a project, sharing patterns and ideas.
Can't meet? Your contributions are still most welcome. Just drop off completed projects at the ERUUF Office marked for "Clickers". Label with your name so we'll know whom to thank!
How Many Clickers Does It Take To Make an Afghan?
No, this is not a retelling of the old "light bulb" joke, but we thought you'd be interested in the amount of effort and love that becomes part of each block afghan created by Clicking for a Cause.
There are 49 blocks in each full-sized afghan and we estimate that this represents the creative work of 12 Clickers. An average of 5 Clickers organize the blocks and lay out the afghan design during our monthly Assembly meeting.
Then the rows of blocks, now pinned to keep their design order, are hand-sewn together. Each afghan is divided among 4 Clickers. Once the hand sewn assembly is complete, 1 Clicker crochets a border edging around the afghan to finish it off. The final touch is a fabric label that marks the afghan as a creation of Clicking for a Cause. 1 Clicker machine sews the labels. All this effort is coordinated by 3 Clicker Co-leaders. How's your math?
