Mission Statement

Operations for Bridge and Beyond will cease on Dec 31, 2021, last mailing date should be Dec 24th

GOAL FOR AFGHANS

Afghans
Goal: 30
Start: #24
Current: 26
0.8666%
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Friday, March 9, 2018

Crocheted Items from Head to Toe Help Homeless

Thanks you Sarah S for this thoughtful donation of crocheted goodies.  Look at the variety folks.  She's been busy crocheting scarves, slippers, hats, and cotton washcloths!  AND she's also included personal care items with her donation.  

Special thanks for taking the time to tag your hats with size, it is so helpful and such a huge time saver...both for me here at the house and for the various volunteers in the homeless shelters.  When they are tagged, it assists getting the item on the right shelf and into the hands of those in need quicker.

Thank you Sarah, was so nice to hear from you again.  Look forward to seeing you here again on Bridge and Beyond.  Thank you for your long time support of Bridge and Beyond and the Homeless we serve.

Please keep up the good work.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. Percentages are current, as of Feb 15th. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. 

The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Hats, Socks and Afghans Aid Homeless

 Thank you Sheelagh for this thought and very generous donation.  What a pretty afghan.  I'm drawing a blank at the moment what this method/stitch is called.  Lovely colors.  One of the ladies will be thrilled to get this and curl up with it.  It looks so springy right now which has me hopeful, as I'm soooooooo tired of winter. Entrelac Crochet.  Took me a while to think about what it was.  I personally have never used this method, but did a google search for a video.  Most of the video's on how to do this are 30-40 minutes long.  But, I did find this shorter version........whether this is enough to get someone going or not I'm not sure, but thought I'd post in case someone wants to check it out.  Click Here
She's also been busy knitting hats.  Tried to turn up the brim on the far left hat so you can see it's a different color on the inside.  It's reversible...and or just really warm because it's doubled.  The two black hats are so cute with a brim.  Please do click to enlarge so you can see the details of these hats.

Sheelagh has also included socks!  Yeah, we love getting socks to warm people's feet.  Nothing worse than cold, wet feet.  And if you're living in the elements or spending nights in a shelter but out and about during the day waiting until the time you can go in...........a change into warm socks is heaven.

Wonderful donation....but wink wink, there's more.  Do pop back in again tomorrow to see the rest of her goodies.  I'm trying not to add too many pictures at a time to help the loading time of the blog.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. Percentages are current, as of Feb 15th. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. 

**All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Caring for Homeless in Ohio Through Crochet

Thank you Barbara F for this wonderful donation and your long term support of Bridge and Beyond.  We truly appreciate all your efforts.  As you can see, Barbara has been busy with her crochet hook.  She crocheted, hats and scarves.  What a fun scarf the black and blue mix is.  Please click to enlarge the picture so you can see the details.

Special thanks for tagging all the hats with size.  What nice looking tags you made.  It really jazzing up the item, doesn't it.  Makes it look more like a gift.  Really lovely.

AND look at the personal care items.........specifically the female products.  There are never enough female products for women in shelters.  Many thanks for your thoughtfulness, Barbara.  Please know you are making a difference is the quality of someone's life.

Keep up the good work!

**The counts on our progress bars are current. Percentages are current, as of Feb 15th. All donations regardless of size and number are valued.

** All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Crocheted Donations for Homeless Continue

Thank you Emily K for this thoughtful donation of crocheted items to help Bridge and Beyond help Homeless in need.  Emily has included quite a variety of items with this donation.  She has cotton washcloths, some personal care items, a hat, mittens...........see me clapping!  I get really jazzed up when we get mittens!  She also included a pair of finger-less glovs/writs warmers.  I never know which is the more accepted or popular name.  

Thank you Emily, you are such a wonderful supporter of Bridge and Beyond.  Please know you are making an important difference in people's lives.

Oophs, almost missed the 2nd picture of the two pairs of slipper Emily made.  Very nice indeed.  Don't they look comfy and warm!  One of these days, I really should make myself a pair...one of these days.

Keep up the good work! 

**The counts on our progress bars are current, as are the percentages.  However, the percentages may not always be; as I don't plan to figure them with each donation.  They will be figured at least by the 20th of each month.

** All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Donated Mountain Sky Afghan

I usually don't post this many pictures in one post, but I found this really interesting.  This is one of the afghan projects that traveled with me to Hilton Head recently.  You've already the completed Orange Julius Afghan.  When pieces are different sizes, I always lay the pieces out to help the process of edging/adding etc to make the pieces as uniform as possible before assembly.

Differnt angle, same designed afghan...except I think I move one or two of the stripes.  This is the first picture I took here at home some time back when it was first designed and labeled and bagged until such time as it could be put together.  Look how different they look.  The 2nd picture looks far more green, must have been the lighting.  I named it Mountain Haze and thought I'd join with a green or gray.

I didn't have the appropriate colors in sufficient quantities ...and found plenty of the pretty bright blue...sorta center in this 2nd picture.  And you can see far more blue in the top picture.

He it is being blocked and drying.  Not the best picture, was a bit limited where I could put, and where I could stand there in the vacation time share.  Blue currently on my computer looks more purple.......which it isn't.

It's very very blue, so I decided the name was no longer appropriate and have renamed this one, Mountain Sky.

The most real picture color wise...is the very first picture.  In fact, in that photo you can see one of the blue skeins of yarn sitting there on the bed.  Lights there were good, must have been more natural.  The first picture was condo 1, and finished picture was a 2nd condo.  I was overly optimistic I guess laying out these afghan and Orange Julius in the first condo.......I didn't get them both done while staying at the first condo.

I often see colors look a bit different based on light at the time the photo was taken, but this one.........might be the biggest change I've seen.

I did work on a 3rd afghan while there, but didn't manage to finish it.  It's still a work in progress, which I share on down the line.  But....we're making headway with our afghan goal count.  And hopefully some of you are also working on one or twelve, lol.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. Percentages are current, as of Feb 15th. All donations regardless of size and number are valued.

** All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Friday, March 2, 2018

Crocheting for Bridge and Beyond Helps Homeless of ALL Ages

Thank you Jeannette T for this thoughtful donation of crocheted goodies to aid the homeless in Ohio.  Bridge and Beyond is able to help people in need because of good people like yourself.  Jeannette has included cotton washcloths and scarves, sized for the kiddo's...possible teen with the brown one.  Thank you Jeannette, and please keep up the good work.

AND...look, she's included one of the hand puppets.  I posted about this with some links to patterns, HERE.  While we perhaps don't need hundreds of these, having some for kids that are having a hard time adjusting to being in a shelter sounds like a wonderful idea.  Sandie P, another of our helpers here on Bridge and Beyond made the suggestion that they could also be made with cotton to be used as a washcloth for young kids........another good idea.

Here's a link from RAV, with a crocheted pattern, looks to be the same as Jeannette's.  It's a free pattern folks, so take a look.  And here's the knitted version.

**The counts on our progress bars are current, the percentages not quite. I'll not be figure the percentages with each update of numbers, but will be updating again next at least by the 20th. I have in fact made a reminder not on my cell phone for the 20th of each month to do percentages. If we're at a milestone, or I just have extra time I may do it more often...but certainly at that scheduled time.

** All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Where are You and Your Yarn From?

I'm trying to identify where everyone is from, partially for fun. Take a look at the map. Also, believe it will aid me in cases where we have several people with the same name. Please look at the lists of bloggers and non bloggers and see if I have the state you hail from. If not, please leave a comment and let me know.

Additionally, we've had help from Scotland, England, Germany Puerto Rico, Canada, and France! They don't appear on the map, but their help is still greatly appreciated.

Where The People Who Donate Come From, is your state represented?