TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A special delivery was made Wednesday afternoon at Riley Elementary School.
Dozens of kids in all grades received a gift – a bag with a hand-crafted hat and scarf for the older grades, and a pair of mittens for the kindergartners.
All the items were crocheted by seniors, many of them regulars at the Smith-Williams Service Center off Pasco Street.
Mattie Johnson said she worked with a friend to brainstorm the project.
“It came from God first,” she said. Her friend took her to lunch, “and said that God had put it on her heart to do something for a school.”
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Johnson immediately thought of Riley Elementary, and the two settled on hand-knitted winter clothes as their idea.
They went to the Smith-Williams Center, and the seniors there, including Jewel Vickers, got to work right away.
“When they come in and asked us to do that, we stopped doing the other things that we were doing, crocheting, and started doing the scarves for the kids here at the school,” Vickers recalled.
“It was nice, and I enjoyed seeing the little smiles,” Vickers said. “They were glad about it.”(Jacob Murphey/WCTV)
She said each senior could knock out two or three items a day.
Ultimately, she said seeing the kids get their gifts made all the needlework well worth their time.
“It was nice, and I enjoyed seeing the little smiles,” Vickers said. “They were glad about it.”
“So we wanted to do something different than what others might have done,” Johnson added. “And so it just leaves a feeling in your heart of what these children will be able to experience.”
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