Teatime with Miss Liz T-E-A Open Discussion with Chantal Gilmour WarmUp Cornwall

Teatime with Miss Liz joining me is Chantal Gilmour Creator of WarmUp Cornwall. February 23rd 10Am EST LIVE SHOWS AND MULTIPLE PODCASTS PLATFORMS AND APPS Chantal is also known as the Crazy Knitter. She started knitting as a hobby 24 years ago while on maternity leave with her second child. After a car accident rendered her bedridden she took up knitting to keep herself sane and a crazy knitter was born. Now she spends her days in Cornwall Ontario knitting for others.  If she is not selling items at live events or online from her Etsy shop and website, She is driving (well the hubby is driving and she is knitting) around SD&G picking up handmade items made by her little army of crafters to deliver these items where they are needed. She is all about knitting. "If she sits she knits." In her spare time making Cornwall and the area is warm she takes many classes at Tri-County Literacy Council or her nose is in a book because she believes in continuously learning. After the car accident rendered her bedridden for 2 years her passion for knitting was born(before the accident it was just a hobby) She had gathered up a considerable pile of scarves and hats so she started selling them on Etsy. Once the piles grew more than she could sell this happened, She (with the help of her husband) started Warm Up Cornwall after a Christmas parade where they ran into a family with a mom about to leave because the children did not grab their winter gear and they gave them some new stuff they had just purchased(scarves and hats were always plentiful as she made them at the time) for their children so the kids would not miss out on parade. Once they got home she ran into a post on Facebook about some people "dressing" statues in Ottawa and thought she could do something like that here, and with some brainstorming the hubby and she started Warm Up Cornwall. She has been making scarves and hats plenty for sale at the time but then decided to purchase gloves to make sets and started leaving them around different areas in town. Then they expanded from that to drop off to the food bank and various other places. After 2 winters they were contacted by the Red Cross to take over a program that provided hats and mittens to the schools in all of the four school boards in SD&G and different nursing homes in the area received lapghans, shawls and other things. The pandemic slowed down the distribution of items at the schools but they have still been actively working with a small army of knitters to keep delivering the items at various places.  https://www.facebook.com/WarmUpCornwall?mibextid=LQQJ4d  https://www.alignable.com/cornwall-on/warm-up-cornwall  https://twitter.com/charityknitter7?s=21...  https://crazyknitters.myshopify.com/  https://instagram.com/warmupcornwall?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/misslizsteatimes/messageBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/teatime-with-miss-liz--5511005/support.