COVID creativity
looking at my knitting facebook pages and saw a post a woman made of hats using rainbow colours.”
Inspired by the beautiful hat design and the significance of rainbows right now, the knitter decided that she would start making these hats for women who will be giving birth this year.
“It is to give them hope that everything will be ok. Knowing that these mothers might be faced with giving birth by themselves or being afraid to go into a hospital during this pandemic,” Harvey-picken said. “At the same time once these children are born, these hats will be worn by them and will give hope to anyone who sees them.”
As she shared the idea on Facebook, the knitter said she was struck by how many mothers and grandmothers placed an order or two.
“Some mothers-to-be have also told me that this will be a commemorative item that will represent this covid-19 pandemic of 2020,” Harvey-picken said, explaining that at this point 19 of the hats have been made, all free of charge. “I made it clear that I did not want any money as this was my way to give back to the community and to share a little hope to these frightened moms to be,” she shared. “Many are so grateful that they wanted to give something, so one person said they would make a donation to the food bank, another will make a donation to the Heroes’ breakfast program and I mentioned the BMP hospital. One lady is going to sew a mask for me, which reminds me of many moons ago when the community would help each other out.”
Where the rainbow hat project takes knitting that Harvey-picken was already hoping to do and gives it a new purpose, Vicky Comeau’s family turned their creative energy and talents into something brand new.
“A friend suggested our families have a little challenge and create videos to help pass the time in isolation,” Comeau said. “Our family had lots of fun with it.”
The result of that first challenge was an eighties themed lip sync mix featuring songs by Corey