Sisters and Friends Reaching Out to Help Those in Need

Thank you Evelyn, Mary, and Gloria! Three new pairs of helping hands from Illinois. Evelyn and Mary are sisters, and perhaps Gloria is as well? 15 crocheted scarves, and a hat to warm our cold folks in need here in Ohio. Fabulous selection of colors. Many of these scarves are sized appropriate for children. By the time you read this scheduled post these scarves will already be around the neck of someone cold.

We're always happy to have more helping hands, and get new folks involved in this cause of warming the homeless. The need is great. We warm Men, Women, and Children in need.

Have made a few additions here to blog, hope you've spent some time looking around. I've also been busy putting together more afghans, as well as designing more from all your squares. Please keep checking to see how things progress.

2011
Scarves 106+15=121
Hats 189+1=190
Mittens (gloves)56
Socks 41
Slippers 10
Ghans 11
Squares 179
Sweaters 5

Don't forget, This is SOCK IT TO ME MONTH!

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!

Potpourri of Warmth for Ohio's Homeless

Thank you Kathy for your potpourri of knitting and crocheting. Kathy had delivered 8 squares, 10 headbands/earwarmers, 9 hats, and 3 scarves. Kathy is our newest pair of helping hands. YIPPEE, love getting more helping hands. Kathy and I became acquainted through Facebook. In doing so we discovered not only is she a fellow Ohioan; but she lives in a small town where I lived in my early childhool. How's that for a small world folks? She and I were able to meet face to face which is always fun. We had a nice lunch while getting to know each other a bit better. Look forward to doing that again, and look forward to more warm goodies for our homeless and those in need off her hook and or knitting needles.

Having new helping hands is good, having a face to face meeting with a new friend is awesome! From memory, I believe this is the 3rd time I've gotten to meet someone in person who was donating after first meeting them here on the blog, or in a group on RAV or similiar type on line group.

Making headway folks with identifying where everyone is from, but still working on it. Please check the lists (both with and without blogs), to see if I have the state your from listed. If it's not listed by your name I can't add it to the map. Creeping forward on that, knowing this is a scheduled post (as they all are in que), as of the writing of this post 24 states are listed on the map giving us a 48% of the country. And you'll also note we have friends abroad in addition to that.

Please read about Sock it to Me in the sidebar. It's our March focus.

2011
Scarves 103+3=106
Hats 180+9=189
Mittens (gloves)56
Socks 41
Slippers 10
Ghans 11
Squares 171+8=179
Sweaters 5

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!

Adding Michigan to our lists of Donating States

Thank you Bridget for your above thoughtful donation. Not only are you our latest pair of helping hands, I believe you are the first person from The State of Michigan to donate to the cause here in Ohio. Woot Woot! That's at least true from when I started noting and keeping track of where the wonderful knitters and crocheters with such big hearts hail from. If however one of our other pairs of helping hands comes from your state, please sing out. Would love to be able to update both lists of donators (with and without blogs).

I love the darling flower you added to the pink crocheted hat. Bridgets other donations are knitted.

Adding Michigan to our map of where folks who donate are from takes us to 22 states, for 44% of the country. Thank you Bridget, glad to have your helping hands and hope to see you often here on the Bridge.

2011
Scarves 103
Hats 174+6=180
Mittens (gloves) 55+1=56
Socks 41
Slippers 8+2=10
Ghans 11
Squares 171
Sweaters 5

**One more request to identify emails for Patty L from Ohio and Adrienne from NY. Does anyone reading know these folks?**

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!

Colorful Blocks Afghan for Faith Mission

Woot Woot! Another warm afghan for our folks in need at Faith Mission. If you've not read anything on this blog before you may not known, Mothers and Children live in temporary housing there at Faith Mission. These Women and Children have been homeless, they've been abused, and come to Faith Mission with very little. We're warming them physically with hats, mittens, scarves, and slippers. Beyond that we're warming them squares and afghans. In addition to the physical warm we provide, our hope is they'll have an afghan to take with them as a house warming gift when they leave their temporary housing situation and are phased backed into society in a more permanent way.

Through our program, "Give a Square" we collected squares both knitted and crocheted measuring from 7 to 10 inches during the months of November and December of 2010 and January of 2011. I've had fun designing afghans of all different sizes with these squares, and with squares I had on hand previously. The program will be activated again in the future, so feel free to continuing making squares to be ready when the call goes out to have them mailed, you'll be ready. Pictures of all ghans donated to date available by clicking on above Give a Square, as well as additional information.

The above ghan, "Colorful Blocks" was assembled from knitted squares donated by RoseMarie with sage green yarn donated by Darling Daughter, Christine. A team of 3.
Sorry this picture is a little blurry. Tried to get a close up for you of the border. This ghan measures 56 x 41. Believe color and size make it appropriate for a male or female teen, as well as adult female.

Stay tuned, as work continues on several other ghans.

2011
Scarves 103
Hats 174
Mittens (gloves) 55
Socks 41
Slippers 8
Ghans 10+1=11
Squares 171
Sweaters 5
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!

Super Warm Crocheted Hats

Thank you Jenny S. from Ohio for these 4 super warm crocheted hats for our cold homeless here in Ohio. Love the red and black. It's always fun to see how differently colors can be arranged to get a completely different look. These hats will be extremely warm as she used nice tight single crochet stitches. The hats vary in sizes too which is always an added bonus with heads being so many different sizes.

Today is day 4 for SOCK it to ME, if you've not yet read about it, please do by click in the sidebar on the badge or with above link. Please encourage your non-knitting and crochet friends to get involved with this months special project. Everyone can join in with supplying socks for cold homeless feet.

Have you noticed new items in our Tabs? Please stay current as this blog is constantly being updated.

2011
Scarves 103
Hats 171+4=174
Mittens (gloves) 55
Socks 41
Slippers 8
Ghans 10
Squares 171
Sweaters 5

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!

Yellow Cheery Scarf

A crocheted yellow and green scarf with fringe. I made this smaller then I normally make scarves thinking it would be appropriate for a teen or female adult. It's about 6 feet long and 6 inches wide, I often go wider and longer with scarves, but worked on this at lunch during work.

Still would love to find emails for Patty L from Ohio, and Adrienne L from New York.

Hope you've had a chance to check out the map on the bottom of the blog. As of the writting of this post, we have donations from 20 states, 40% of the country. There are people listed on both the blog list and the non bloggers list who's local's I don't have. If you check and I don't have your's listed, please leave us a comment here so it can be updated...both on the list and the map. It will aid me in identifying donations AND be fun to see where everyone is from who keeps their hands busy warming the homeless in Ohio.

Since this months focus is Socks, you might suggest friends, neighbors, and or co-workers who don't knit or crochet could get involved. The Sock it to Me Badge is in the sidebar, click it for all the details.

2011
Scarves 102+1=103
Hats 171
Mittens (gloves) 55
Socks 41
Slippers 8
Ghans 10
Squares 171
Sweaters 5


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!