I'm Elizabeth McDonald, Web Reporter for GC-142. Look around this general council and you will see the evidence, evidence everywhere. There is a crafting bunch of commissioners at work. Some are hookers, including Kathy Brown, co-chair of local arrangements for this general council. Kathy, weeks before general council began, you put the call out to knitters and pro-shareers. What was your plan? What was your hope? Our hope is to create blankets that will be made in knitwear at council. They will be sewn together by squares from local UCW unit in Mount Pearl on the east coast. And these blankets would be distributed to the Stella Circo or Stella Burry Community Services to help with their support of housing and projects that they have with the homeless and those who just seek a little warmth and comfort. So you were looking for knitters, you were looking for co-shareers. You've provided all kinds of wool and knitting needles. Where did all this come from? This wool came mostly from congregations throughout our conference. At our conference meetings in May, people kept bringing me wool and needles. I had almost a hundred pairs of knitting needles when I began and I'm down to a lot less of that. And I have at least twice this wool again. People actually from some of our commissioners came with bath packs full of wool and contributed as well. Now there's a lot of talk of change, there's a lot of talk of transformation at this general council and there's a very special kind of transformation happening here. Very beautiful work, lovely work as people take those balls of wool and turn it into something that will be not only warm, not only practical, but something very beautiful for the people who are working. They're all different styles, different colors and I think it'll be like a mosaic of your work. Now when commissioners arrived, each commissioner received a gift, a beautiful bag and inside the bag, a prayer square, a dishcloth, somebody, somebody knit this and a very special kind of cross. Can you tell us where these came from? Those again came from various congregations. Actually, the miniature prayer shows or prayer squares, I think they came from, I'm not sure, I think maybe one person who knit them or in conjunction with her sister, the dishcloths came from everywhere and a couple of our congregations made the cross in the pockets. And the bags themselves came from UCW units from across our conference. Lots of hands-on activity in Newfoundland, Lava Dork. Now on Thursday night, I understand a kitchen party is being planned for commissioners and they will have the opportunity to experience another hands-on creativity, something very popular amongst you, New Gradoreans. That was a great idea. Oh, you taught us all. People from Newfoundland and Lava Dork. Can you tell us what's in store on Thursday night? What are commissioners going to see? Commissioners are going to see a demonstration of rug cooking. And I think that's true for generations, many of our four mothers, I will say, particularly, created rugs by using yarn and from clothing that was worn now. And wasn't usable really for clothing anymore. They would tear it into strips and they would be hooked into rugs. Most people in those days didn't have carpeting. So to cover the linoleum, especially on cold winter nights, they would create these beautiful pieces of art really of rugs. And the tradition is now really researching again in the past ten years or so. And this is the kind of recycling, repurposing, long before it became popular. You may do with whatever you had. We are people of the sea and of the land and we live with whatever resources that were around us. Many of our communities were isolated and cut off. So you use whatever resources you had available to you. So wool and material were always invented. What every catty bread, co-chair of local arrangements, thank you very much. You can see what commissioners are working at, some of them with knitting needles. On Instagram or flicker, just go to GC42.ca.