EDMONTON – She’s a couple months shy of her 86th birthday, but that hasn’t slowed down Jane Van Zyll Langhout. This year, she knit 1,000 warm hats for NAIT’s Share the Warmth Campaign, which benefits the city’s less fortunate.
“I’ve been knitting toques for a long time, but never this many,” she said. “Now I’m old, and I sit a lot, and then I knit.”
The 85-year-old grandmother gives herself a bit of a break over the summer, but otherwise she’s hard at work, making up to three toques a day.
“When you’re old, you have to still do something, you know?”
She says knitting as much as she does isn’t tiring or boring for her. If anything, it seems to have only made her more of an expert in the field.
“It’s very easy to do. It’s the easiest thing to do…I don’t make mistakes,” she said.
This is the second year in a row Van Zyll Langhout has made such a sizeable contribution to NAIT’s Share the Warmth campaign.
Her toques will be donated to the Boyle McCauley Health Centre, Hope Mission and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton, just in time for Christmas.
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