AMY Burow’s mantra for long life is to stay connected to young and old alike, moving with the times and staying busy.
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The 98-year-old’s still makes time to knit every day to knit and keep her hands in good health.
Ms Burow knits her blankets with love and, wanting to put them to good use, creates them for charity.
Working from her Melbourne home, Ms Burow bundled up three to send to Ballarat Hospice Care this month.
It was on one of her regular visits to her daughter Joy and son-in-law Michael in Clunes that she heard about Hospice’s work in palliative care about the region and felt this was a worthy cause for her next project.
Ms Burow’s stitches are so even and patches in her blanket are carefully knit together.
Ms Burow learned to knit as a child. As her five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren arrived, they each received a “Ma blanket”, asking for larger blankets as they moved into beds. They still take their blankets to sporting events and to snuggle up and watch television at home.
The prolific knitter wants to prove older people can still inspire and be really productive and active.
Ms Burow is a pensioner, who lives independently and cooks and shops for herself in Melbourne with a little help from family and a cleaner.
Even though she has never had her driver’s licence, Ms Burow still manages to visit Clunes and talk sports with her son-in-law.
For the past 28 years, Ms Burow has been a founding member of The Torch Club, a group of former athletes who raise funds to help young athletes, aged 15-20, achieve their best.
Athletics has long been important to Ms Burow, as an athlete in her younger days and as an administrator. Ms Burow is a life member of Athletics Australia, Athletics Victoria and Victorian Women’s Amateur Athletics Association.
Ms Burow likes to keep her mind active with plenty of word searches and scrabble. She took up reading since turning 90 years old.
With each blanket she knits, Ms Burow attaches a little of her story and reasons why she likes to knit some love into her blankets.
Ms Burow hoped her blankets could make a difference and offer a little of that love for Ballarat’s Hospice clients when they needed it most.