We we worked this summer knitting these kits. Children’s hats with cute stuffed animals on top. These are donated to two elementary schools in our community. These schools have a high percentage of disadvantaged families. The children don’t have basics like a warm hat for winter mornings.
I spy a Bronco hat too. Hopefully one true fan will want it!
There are some pretty serious cancer treatments out there. Sometimes the patients require a hospital stay. This can be pretty devastating being stuck in a room for days on end and most times these patients are not even allowed flowers due to the seriousness of their condition and treatments.
Here is a delivery of blankets and shawls to cheer up the rooms. The patient knows that somebody cared enough to take the time to knit or crochet them something special and they get to take their gift home with them at the end of their stay!
A delivery to the oncology department. We send hats, scarves, lap blankets or shawls. These are given to the patients, care givers and nurses in the chemotherapy room. They also are given to inpatient cancer patients to make their room a little more personal with a gift of a hand made little something. They can look forward to taking their gift home at the end of their stay.
Note the blue and orange hat, GO BRONCOS!
And the cerveza box has magazines and books.
What did I manage to personally include?
A hand knitted lap blanket.
Another cute bag rescued from the thrift store. I wash these and give them to new members in our knit and crochet for charity group for their projects.
Yikes! I didn’t notice it was reversible with a nice pocket for row counter, stitch markers, etc.
Welcome Renee!
This cute bag was in its last week at the thrift store. Destined to become a rag. ☹️😟
Now it has be rescued, washed and given to the newest member of our knit and crochet group to hold her latest project.
One of these hats for disadvantaged children this fall!
Welcome Karen!
Our church group does a lot of knitting and crochet for charity. We need to start now to have enough items for all our favorite charities this fall.
These cutie pies are toppers for hats for children. The kit comes with enough yarn for a hat or scarf for a child and an adorable topper (the scarf cleverly has a slot where the little animal gets pushed through-no struggling by a small child to wrap a scarf around the neck). These were on sale because… well… who wants to knit warm hats during the summer? We have two grade schools with disadvantaged children who come to school without hats, scarves or mittens. The ladies are excited to get a head start on providing them some warmth.
I joined the Simpson Knitting and Crocheting group to learn to knit and crochet. The group is focused on charity work and are a very talented bunch of craftswomen.
Here are some hats I delivered this week to the Good Samaritan Radiation Oncology department. Many of the patients have already gone through chemotherapy and have lost their hair. The staff at Good Sam was excited to receive this donation as with the colder weather coming to Colorado they knew the hats would be appreciated.
I never imagined I would be delivering these donations as one of the patients! I now personally realize the feeling of gratitude that absolute strangers are reaching out to those in need. Every time a recipient dons one of these hats they will remember that they are in the thoughts and prayers of our group. A positive and hopeful attitude is very important to recovery.
Now I just wish I could learn to knit or crochet!
Thank you Alex for sending these awesome squares for the prayer blankets.
These patterns are amazing!
Our church is collecting 10 inch squares from knitters and crocheters to sew into prayer blankets. We are thrilled to have some travel all the way from Arizona to add to our collection!
These are my first mittens! They are a lot smaller than they look, for a first grader’s itty bitty hands.
I am also making a matching scarf. This is also my first scarf.
They will be given to a grade school child (I am sure a girl because of the bright pink!) at one of the two schools our church knitting and crocheting group is making mittens and scarves for disadvantaged children.
This project is rewarding. Another blogger told me that to receive something someone put time and effort into was a huge gift emotionally. Next up are some boys’ mittens in an appropriate boy color.
I am leaving the little strings for my teacher to make sure I finished properly and that these mittens don’t unravel away….
October 4, 2015 Paster Tezenlo Thong blessed the projects of the charity knitting, crochet and sewing group.
The group has been busy, hats for chemotherapy patients, mittens for local elementary school children, squares for prayer blankets, more hats and scarves for Denver’s homeless community, small socks for preemies and tons more.
The group has also been blessed with many donations. Including some ladies who actually donated part or all of their stashes! Giving up part of your stash is giving up something you discovered in your travels so it is not only a selfless donation but it is sharing memories that travel with the stash. Those ladies who gave up part or all of their stashes are real heroes, generous of heart and deed.
After the blessing we took some of the finished projects to a local yarn shop, Knit Knack located in our own down town Arvada. Knit Knack works closely with a group called Knitting4Peace and gratefully accepted the donations. The owner of the shop also gave us all discounts towards purchases for future projects. Thank you Gerri Bragdon!
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