The Boston Marathon Scarf Project

I learned of this project a week ago and knew immediately that I wanted to join in.

Boston's Old South Church is collecting handknitted and hand crocheted blue and yellow scarves to give to this year's runners on April 20, the day before the Boston Marathon.

Providing runners with our handwork will be a powerful way to let them know we are thinking of them, thinking of the ones injured and killed in last year's marathon bombing, and giving them our love and support.

I'm knitting scarf #3 now and will probably finish it today. I think I'll also knit a fourth one, for good measure.

Details about the project can be found at the link above. (Just click on "this project" in the opening sentence.) Also, I have taken information from the official site and am sharing it below.

Scarves must be received by the Old South Church, Boston, no later than April 5, so if you'd like to join the project, get those needles clicking!

Also, there's a group for this project on Ravelry, should you like to join it and take a look at many scarves already completed.

As the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing approaches, members of Boston's Old South Church United Church of Christ have mixed feelings. Some are facing the anniversary with a spirit of defiance and determination, some feel a growing sense of unease and foreboding, and for others it is a time of grievous loss, said the church's pastor, the Rev. Nancy Taylor. But the church, located about 100 feet from the marathon's finish line, where the bombs went off on April 15, 2013, will choose to celebrate the tenacity of the human spirit through the Marathon Scarf Project, an effort to wrap each runner of this year's race in love, hope and prayer. "As we approach the first anniversary, feelings are complicated," said Taylor. "Every athlete competing in this year's Boston Marathon is facing down fear and defying it. These scarves, knitted with prayers of love and courage, will literally enfold the athletes, touching their skin and blessing them on their way." The Marathon Scarf Project is organized by members of the Old South Knitters, the church's group of about 30 knitters, crocheters and weavers. The group is collecting handmade scarves in the colors of royal blue and yellow, the official colors of the Boston Marathon, measuring approximately 4-6 inches wide and 60 inches long. (Organizers suggest using the official Boston Athletic Association colors Pantone 109C and Pantone 294C as a guide.)