Article: Hobby unites close-knit group `Baa Baa Black Sheep' members have a passion for wool

Kate Ellison learned to knit as a child, but it wasn't until she became a mother that her hobby turned to a passion. "Now I knit while I'm waiting at soccer fields, at hockey rinks -- everywhere," she said.

It was Ellison's idea to launch a knitting group when she moved to Lynnfield seven years ago and was looking for ways to meet friends with shared interests. The first five members who gathered around her dining room table included Ellison, her mother Anne Robinson, who is a knitting teacher from Beverly, and three of Robinson's students.

Today the group, officially named the Baa Baa Black Sheep, numbers 45. The members have long outgrown Ellison's dining room and meet at

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