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There’s a well-spun yarn Menno Boldt likes to tell.

Menno Boldt, who has knitted about 2,000 hats, blesses each one before giving it to its new owner.

Six years ago, he stepped into an arts and crafts store in Langley and came across a set of plastic rings, each with dozens of small shafts sticking up in one direction.

It was his first look at a hand loom.

“It’s called a Nifty Knitter. It comes in four different sizes,” says the 78-year-old. “I said to my wife, ‘I could learn to knit on one of those things.’ ”

Before long, he learned to knit infant and adult wool hats and shawls while watching TV (mostly sports) in his leather Lay-Z-Boy in in South Surrey home.

One day, he recalls, “I heard a whisper.”.......

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