MILTON, Ga. — The Milton branch of the Fulton County Library may have thousands of books, but in Meeting Room A, no one is reading.
“True! We’re doing other things with our hands and our minds,” Monica Phillips said with a smile.
Channel 2′s Berendt Petersen met with a group of Milton ladies who meet each week to help their community.
They are the ladies of the Community Crochet Circle.
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Fiber artists, they call themselves, who have been getting together every Thursday for the last 15 years.
They have fashioned yarn into thousands and thousands of essentials for local charities and hospitals.
“We’ve done chemo hats for the cancer centers. We’ve worked with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite. We’ve done incubator blankets for them. We have made preemie hats. ‘Project Linus’ blankets for seriously ill children. That’s a big one we currently do,” Crochet Circle member Peggy Salzmann told Channel 2 Action News.
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Monica Phillips and her best friend Dena Kennedy are two of the founding members.
Monica first learned to crochet when her daughter was young. She asked for socks with sequins on them.
So Monica learned how to crochet them. Monica and everyone else in the crochet circle love what they do, and they love who they do it for.
“It’s gratifying just to know your little creations are out in the world and are able to help people,” Monica said.
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