April is Autism Awareness Month

Hi everyone, 

April is Autism Awareness month! 

Please visit the Autism Society and Autism Speaks to participate. 

Most importantly, I encourage you to spend some time with a person you know on the autism spectrum and find out more about his or her interests.  Get into his or her shoes and you may make a friend! 

Good News - Working again!

It's been about a year since this blog has been updated - so many events have taken place this year. Matthew has now transitioned from working at Outback doing set-ups to working at a center-based employment facility with Valley Life since last summer.

Matthew has enjoyed working there doing processing work from folding bags and packing them up in boxes to sticking adhesive pads to small kits.
 

The family is happy that he is doing so well at his job. In addition, Matthew is working at knitting many different products, from blankets to scarves made of ruffle yarn.

Hope to finish updates soon - thanks for visiting and have a great day! 

Matthew's Last Knitting Project - Baby Blanket

Hi everyone,

Matthew has finished knitting a garter-stitched baby blanket for a client. He is very happy and hopes that the client and baby are happy too!

Working at Outback

 Matthew is doing a successful job working at Outback with the Southwest Autism Rehabilitation and Research Center (SARRC).  You can read more about how others are doing well at SARRC by visiting the following article below from the Arizona Republic (azcentral.com):

Center links Valley autistic adults to jobs

Matt Knits Deadline Change

Hi everyone, The Matt Knits website has changed to this Friday, August 7th.

Thanks again for your patience.

Please visit Knitting Pattern Central for some excellent tips and tricks on knitting!

As for a current update for Matt, he is doing real well in his day program and has knitted wrist warmers. We'll be sending a picture of the type of fabric that Matthew has made for his craft on this blog soon.

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Mattknits.com Website Preview

Hello everyone,
The webmaster is still in progress on the website tonight. Would you like a sneak peek?

Please tell us what you think about the new change. We at Mattknits.com hope you enjoy the new improvements to our website. Thanks!

Mattknits.com Updates

Hello everyone,
this is a reminder that our website will continue its updates until July 31st.
Thank you for your patience.