Coffee Latte Afghan Done and Donated

Drum Roll........I finally got Coffee Latte finished!  I first posted about starting Coffee Latte back on Feb 1th of 2019.  I also had started Blue Ocean.  It's typical for me to have lots of projects going at one time and bounce around between them.  I have big and little projects going, so I can tote the smaller ones with me.  I also vary what I'm working on between knitting and crocheting, as crocheting bothers the arthritis a bit more....plus in warmer months I don't like to have a big ghan on my lap.  

Anyway, those are my excuses for this taking so long.  I had it tucked away, and frankly sorta forgot about it; but am happy to now say.........yippee it's done.  It's a bit larger than some I make, which also made it take longer.  It's laying out here drying after being laundered.  I did a little bit of blocking, but not much was needed.  Just needed to smooth it out and of course let the yarn rest.  

It's always nice to get things laundered, as they look so much more finished, they soften up, and smooth out.

So Coffee Latte is our first afghan for the year 2020.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. 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.

Coffee Latte Almost Ready to Donate-Donation Goals for 2020

Coffee Latte.  Some of you may remember seeing this in it's early stages.  Well, it's been worked on off and on and then tucked away for far too long.  I took it with me recently on a vacation to Hilton Head to have something to work on that didn't need to be counted etc.  The stitches on the needle are those closest to you...and this means I have a few solid brown rows left followed by the final section of the brown variegated.  Then the fun of tucking in tails and it finally will be finished and begin our donations for Afghans for the current year (despite having been started last year).  

I started with the afghan so you can see the new method of forming our goals for the year.  In 2018 we donated 34 afghans and in 2019, 14.  I have varied through the years how I pick a goal and this year, decided I would not go back for lots of years, but be a simple average of the two most recent years...2018 and 2019.  So with that idea our goal for afghans to donate this year will be 24, which is actually 10 more than we donated last year......but, hey what's a goal if it's too easy to make, lol

So, in the previous post are the total for each of the items we count in our donation totals and I am now resetting each of goal charts/graphs here on Bridge and Beyond.  And with any luck at all, we'll see this one ghan finally completed and counted.

Thanks for your patience, as I was out of town longer than normal in January and February and didn't have the ability to do things here on my blog.  The next post will be the first official donation for calendar year 2020 from our good friend and long time supporter Sandra R from the sunny state of Florida.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. 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.

Blogging in Alphabetical Order A =

 I will continue the  practice of blogging in alphabetical order when I don't have donations to share with  you all. 

Abandoned,  Anxiety, Arrest,  Assistance.  Those words are a few I came up with that start with the letter A and have a connection with homelessness.  Feeling abandoned must be a daily occurrence for folks who are homeless.  They might feel abandoned by friends, by family, by co-workers or even by the military.  They might take up residence in an abandoned building.

No doubt they also experience much anxiety in the daily lives.  Anxiety  about finding food, being warm enough, being arrested.  Often they are the first suspected of a crime.  It's a sad existence for certain.

I read a statistic on a website filled with too many numbers to quote them all, but it indicated that on a single night in January of 2017, 553,742 people were homeless across the US.  65% of that number were homeless people who were sheltered for the night while 35% where un-sheltered.  We work to ease the burden be they sheltered or un-sheltered individuals.  

We do what we can do to ease the burden, to help warm, to help people feel less abandoned by society.  One thing we do is make afghans.  We knit them, we crocheted them and donate them.  Additionally I often piece together squares or strips to make an afghan.  The above brown afghan, Coffee Latte is one I started about a week ago.  It's being knit in simple garter stitch.  I'm also still working on Blue Ocean as well, though it's going a bit slower.  It's a ripple using the stockinette stitch.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. 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.