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.
I recently purchased a knitting book that had a beautiful blanket knitted from your scrap yarn.
The idea was to knit each row with a different string of yarn to use up your scraps. Because each row was different you could use any weight of yarn, just alternate the weights to keep a flat blanket.
If you had enough scrap yard you could do a theme like cool colors only or warm colors. Or you could group the cool colors together and gradually work towards the warm colors. Whatever your scraps allowed you to do.
Well being a new knitter and only having completed a few projects, I have a no scraps.
So I created my own version of scraps… I’m buying different skeins of yarn that are on sale. I’ll probably have enough “scraps” to knit many lap blankets for my chemo ministry. And I am leaning towards cool colors for calming blankets.
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.
Guess what I did today?
Joined some interesting people to sit and knit in public in Olde Town Arvada square. Sitting in the shade of huge trees and the light breeze made it very pleasant.
Made some great new friends who pick a different charity to knit for every few months.
and this guy?
getting ready for Beatles Night. Several bands will be playing Beatles music in the square. Free family fun. He was painting the circles for a game called Twister from that era. Green, orange and blue dots to follow. This guy was thin and wirey, he’s going to be great at the game!
Finally completed a knitting project! Two sets of mittens and one scarf for little girls who are in need. At least I got them done before summer!
Knitting at tire store waiting for my snow tires. Scarf to go with girl’s mittens knitted for disadvantaged child.
A woman was intrigued and is going to join our knit and crochet for charity group in January, yay!
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