88-year-old man builds knitting machine, donates 10,000 pairs of socks to the homeless

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Bob Rutherford told CBC News that his friends didn’t think he could make a cheap knitting machine that could knit quickly, so he worked to prove them wrong. He built two machines with sewer tubing to create the clothing.

Now, he’s using two machines to knit spool after spool of wool everyday. He calls his mission Socks by Bob. He donates what he makes to homeless shelters in his area in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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