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Our mission is to warm cold homeless people in need. We provide hand HAND KNIT AND CROCHETED items for men and women living outdoors in cold central Ohio (Bridge people), for women and children in desperate circumstance treated in 2 free clinics, abused and or homeless women living in temporary housing through Faith Mission, Men sleeping a night in The Shelter through Faith Mission, Families receiving a hot meal through Holy Family; and Homeless Families (men, women and children) living in temporary housing through The Homeless Families Foundation, and Families living in temporary shelters through The Y..., and families in need in Vinton Co. through St. Vincent de Paul, as well as multiple schools with kids in need. Hats, Scarves, Mittens, and Slippers hand knit or crocheted accepted all year long. Store bought socks also needed. More details in FAQ, and How you Help Tabs.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Progress on Afghan in the works

afghan for homelessYou might have seen this ghan in it's design form stage 1 HERE, but wanted to share the progress to date with you using Rose Marie's wonderful knitted squares. One row of squares has been stitched together, and the wide border of navy--the crocheted section is complete. The original thought was to use the navy and crocheted around with a border in addition to the navy between the rows of joined squares/rectangles. However, I believe I'll use burgundy after the squares are joined with the navy sections due to the amount of navy I have on hand. A work in progress, one of 3 ghans I'm currently working on for our folks at the Mission.

Working on a knitted corner to corner which you can see here in the green phase.

And have an Autumn Ghan planned with some odds and end here, though edging has not yet started. After staring at this one awhile I believe I will change my joining color, thinking maybe green. Might have to switch out the two squares that have black in them? Thinking still on this one, thus haven't begun the edging.

**Winner of the mitten challenge, the mitten throw down announced tomorrow.
***Give a Square, or more. Have you read up yet on the November and December special? If not, please do in the sidebar.
*****Stay tuned for a very special, and very exciting announcement about Bridge and Beyond and a certain Magazine!

2010
Scarves 275
Hats 487
Mittens 57
Socks
79
Slippers
9
Ghans 3
Squares
130 (since Give a Square)


Please remember all donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated, and all donations keep someone warm. We help, one stitch at a time. It truly DOES make a difference. THANK YOU!

2 comments:

SandieP said...

Love watching these ghans unfold! Thanks for sharing your expertise and giving us all ideas as well as a progress report.

Sandy said...

A step here, a step there, and pretty soon...we have a ghan.

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