Donated Socks Warm Cold Feet of the Homeless

Thank you Tara B for starting off our year with this great sock donation.  When you live out in the elements, or get nights at a shelter; having clean dry socks is HUGE!!  We've all had cold wet feet and it's miserable.  Especially when getting relief from that situation is so difficult.

Tara B has set up a recurring order of socks from Amazon.  When she first told me about this, I thought........BRILLANT!!  She doesn't have to take the time to shop, or package things up and pay shipping.  Amazon delivers directly to me.

We donated 107 pairs of socks in 2020, but had a couple of very lean years so our average for the last 4 years is only 79.  Though I have listed that as our goal, I feel confidant we can meet and exceed that.  So, thank you Tara for getting us started with these 6 pairs and 73 to go.

**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.

First Donation for 2021

More afghans from our friend, Marsha M.  You may remember my telling you I filled the car when I picked these up from her some time back and have been working through the pile to launder and block them.  So these 3 afghans begin our count for the new year, 2021.  This bright neon colored ghan is styled with 2 large center squares joined and then edged.  Some youngin will no doubt enjoy this.

This pretty blue and purple ghan is a shell pattern, light and airy and will appeal to a teenage girl or perhaps single woman as a lapghan.  Looks like the ocean to me.  AND thinking about the ocean right now in the middle of winter makes me smile.  AND did you notice sunshine coming through the window on the day I photographed this one.  This style lapghan/ghan is worked side to side.

Another granny square styled with smaller squares (15) and then edged.  These colors remind me of fall and leaf color, or perhaps the period when we all had harvest gold, burnt orange and or avocado green appliances.

I've kept you all guessing how many ghans/lapghans Marsha crocheted over these past couple of years.  Yes that's why the car was so full it was several years worth of her crocheting.  We ended 2020 with her count of 25 and so now she's at 28...pssss, but not done, so please do keep coming back and I will continue to launder and block, as she cares for her husband.

Our 2020 goal for afghans was 24 and we collected and donated 40, so did well with going over goal.  This years goal is 30, the average of our last 4 years.  So, let's see if we can match or exceed our new slightly higher goal.  3 down and 27 more to go.

**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.

Final Numbers for 2020 Donations, AND New Goals for 2021

Here are our totals for the last 4 years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.  You can see the percentage of our goal met for this past year, AND you can see the average of the 4 years which we will use for our goals for this year, 2021.

Notice the 2020 figures in red, Afghans, Hats, and Mittens are the 3 items we donated more in 2020 over 2019.  Additionally, note we made goal in two categories, Afghans and Mittens last year.

The format I used to use to make our little spread sheets no longer exist, so once I made the above on google docs all I could do was save as a PDF which I can't use here on blogger, so then printed and saved as a picture, which is why it's a bit fuzzy.  If someone knows another method, please let me know.

Keep your yarn and hooks and needles busy folks and let's see if we can make goal in more categories this year, 2021.  

Many thanks for all you do.

**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.