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Benjamin Levisay, CEO of XRX, Inc.; Whit Robbins, founder and chair emerita, Atlanta Knitting Guild; Governor Nathan Deal (R); Marian Rose, president, Atlanta Knitting Guild; Jolie Elder, president, North Georgia Knitting Guild photo credit Alana Joyner, Governor's Photographer What can I say? This has been an amazing and unexpected experience. There is also something wonderful about how things come back around -- that I was president of Atlanta Knitting Guild during the first STITCHES South and now I'm president of North Georgia Knitting Guild this particular year. So many thanks go out to Benjamin Levisay and Marian Rose, who really have done the bulk of the work on this. It was a delight to have guild founder Whit Robbins along. I'm only sorry Jenny Lee, who founded North Georgia Knitting Guild, doesn't live in the area anymore; because it would be wonderful and appropriate for her to have been included. It was not an easy thing to decide what to wear today....

Benjamin Levisay, CEO of XRX, Inc, has already done a fabulous job getting this information out to knitters all across our country. Governor Nathan Deal will be issuing an executive proclamation recognizing the knitters and crocheters of Georgia. As part of that proclamation, he will be naming Saturday April 14, 2012 as statewide knitting and crochet day. There will be a rally on the Capitol steps that day from 11 AM until 2 PM. As current president of North Georgia Knitting Guild and a past president of Atlanta Knitting Guild, I am overjoyed to see the knitters and crocheters of our community being recognized in this way. We know historically that knitters have contributed to their communities in times of need. Very often, knitters have been asked to make garments for soldiers at war. In the past it has been socks, but in our century it has been helmet liners. We make stoma covers, chemo caps, and preemie baby clothes that are distributed in our hospitals. We make scarves to ...