freda, karin, me, ocha, and ella (left to right) with our knitting workThis idea firstly came out when Rossa told me that there’s gonna be a knitting workshop class in Tupperware Home at Tirtayasa. Then I arranged it, asked a bunch of friends to participate, and finally it was just Rossa, Alfreda, Ella, and Karina (Ocha’s college buddy) who attending to the knitting class. The free of charge thingy is the coolest part that i can offer to them, lol. Oh i forgot to introduce you to Alfreda and Ella. Freda is my big mouthed-highschool friend with a big heart :p meanwhile Ella is my old buddy from elementary and juniorhigh school.
We showed up to the Tupperware Home with no clue at all. I was told by Mbak Lini who gave us this opportunity that the lecturer is from Tobucil. What’s Tobucil then? After we played some warm up game with tooth paste as a tool and listened but with not paying attention too much to the sales mam from Tupperware, and finally we found out what on earth Tobucil is (not quite clear actually).
Tobucil is a club hobby who support literacy movement in a local level based on some kind of daily activities like reading, writing, appreciation, and hobby development. Literacy for Tobucil not only means reading and writing skills, but also includes the ability to read the environment critically, and the courage to understand ourselves as an independent people who got the potential to grow and to contribute for changes. And, this knitting workshop class is one of those activities from Tobucil also with The Man Who Knit. If you wanna know the details about Tobucil, click here. And if you wanna shop via online, click here to see the goods from the catalogue. And wow, a talented young lecturer lady posted this workshop event to her blog. Check here if you’d like to.
So, the five of us and other fellas have been taught how to knit the very simple technique, just using our hands for a beginner like us. I might say that I enjoooooooy knitting, it was fun!! We even had a race who could knit the longest until they (Tobucil and The Man Who Knit) said stop. One of the lecturer said that when you’re knitting while talking, then you’re getting better. He said again, “It only took 10 minutes to finish this simple knitting.” It was nearly impossible since this is the first time for me knitting.
I knew what I and my mates learnt at the workshop was just easy as abc, but there are a lot of techniques that we gotta learn more for making shawl, beanie hat, sweater, cardigan, dress (what I really intend to make), and so on. I’m planning to learn knitting again. I hope there’s gonna be another workshop or maybe the knitting course in Jakarta (Tobucil is from Bandung), so we can seize our time and day with beneficial activity, and not wasting it. AMEN.
Heeey, here are some pics I got. And if you eagerly wanna learn what I knew from this class, ask me too. Or perhaps we could take this knitting course together, why not?? :D
Tobucil's mission and commitment
ella won the race of "who can knit the longest?" yeay
it's my knitting work i formed like a lollipop
i got this two rolls of knitting yarn for free :)
we got goody bag each that contains 1 tabloid, 1 magazine, and 1 mini tupperware
