Mish Mosh can Be FUN

Thank you Vickie C from Ohio for this thoughtful donation of yarn and squares. Mish Mosh can be fun. One just never knows what it will become, what it will look like when it grows up and is joined with other goodies! lol I'll be checking my stash when it comes time to creating something from these cute bright colored squares. Vickie is our newest pair of helping hands, hope to see you here often.

2011 Donations:

Scarves 454
Hats 931
Mittens 253
Socks 333
Squares 641+34=675
Rain Ponchos 216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

As the year approaches an end, I'd like you all to spend some time looking around the blog. New things have been added, additional information. Through time our mission has changed a bit. Please read the updates. The part of our mission though that has remained constant is our quest to help those in need with handmade...hand knit/crocheted/loomed items. Handmade sends such an important message of hope.

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!

Stripes, "That's a fact Jack"

Do you remember the movie, "Stripes?" That popped in my head as soon as opened this box of striped scarves from Angie. That quote, "that's a fact Jack", also jumped in my brain. lol Fun movie for sure. So are these scarves...fun for sure. Angie is a fellow Ohioan. I divided her colorful scarves by size. Some for men, some for women, some for kids/teens.
This is box 2 of Angie's donation. Many thanks Angie, our newest pair of helping hands for your donation. Hope to see you here often.

2011 Donations:

Scarves 440+14=454
Hats 931
Mittens 253
Socks 333
Squares 641
Rain Ponchos 216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

**Reminders:
Avoid White, offwhite, ivory etc.
Don't tie and cut, leave tails of several inches when you change yarn AND PLEASE, work in all your tails. Only exception is your final tail on a square.
Use washable fibers
Add a note with your name, your state, your email ady, Facebook, RAV, Hive, Ville profile page and or your blog url so I have a means of contacting you.

As the year approaches an end, I'd like you all to spend some time looking around the blog. New things have been added, additionally information. Through time our mission has changed a bit. Please read the updates. The part of our mission though that has remained constant is our quest to help those in need with handmade...hand knit/crocheted/loomed items. Handmade send such an important message of hope.

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!

Classmates Reunited to do Good

Please welcome our newest pair of helping hands, Marilyn from Ohio. Through the beauty of Facebook, Marilyn W and I got re-acquainted. Marilyn and I were thick as thieves in Junior High and most of High School. Then with different interest we lost touch. She married and moved away. It's wonderful to be reconnected, to share memories and to remember why we enjoyed each other so much. We have a lot in common. The obvious thing we have in common is knitting and helping other people. See the proof above. These scarves are very well made, nice and soft and very warm. The navy blue in the middle is I think called a seaman scarf? Where the neck portion is more narrow to wrap. It was a way to save yarn back in WWII times I belief. Trying to remember the history of it. It's a very traditional and long standing popular scarf pattern.

Not only we been able to reconnect on Facebook, and here on Bridge and Beyond, we've reconnected face to face and have had dinner!

2011 Donations:

Scarves 436+4=440
Hats 931
Mittens 253
Socks 327+6=333
Squares 641
Rain Ponchos 216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

Thank you Marilyn for your thoughtful donation, it's greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you here often.

**Reminders:
Avoid White, offwhite, ivory etc.
Don't tie and cut, leave tails of several inches when you change yarn AND PLEASE, work in all your tails. Only exception is your final tail on a square.
Use washable fibers
Add a note with your name, your state, your email ady, Facebook, RAV, Hive, Ville profile page and or your blog url so I have a means of contacting you.

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!

Scarves for Ohio's Homeless from New York

Another pair of helping hands from the state of New York. Thank you Adrienne L, our newest pair of helping hands. We're happy to have you join us and hope to see you soon and often here on Bridge and Beyond. The 2 blue scarves are crocheted...everyone loves the color BLUE.

As I add Adrienne's name to our list of helping hands, I noted there's another Adrienne who donated. I've verified it's not the same person as this is her first donation. This points to one of the reason's I'm trying to get everyone's last initial and the state their from listed with their name. We've grown in our numbers of helping hands....which is WONDERFUL. It does though create a bit of difficulty for me trying to keep track of who's who. Soooooooo, would you all please look at the 3 lists...
1. Those with blogs
2. Those on Facebook, RAV, Ville, Hive
3. Those without blogs
Is the first initial of your last name listed? Is your state listed? Please leave a comment and let me know whom you are and where you're from. It helps when trying to identify donations. When I can't identify donations, I'm not able to let you know via email that your donations arrived. On the fun side....I want to make sure we have the state listed on the map below. Please scroll down and check out the map.
**Maybe you see 2 names and you don't know which is you, search using your name and you'll be taken to the blog post that highlights your work/donation....you can then see which one is you.**

2011 Donations:

Scarves 430+6=436
Hats 931
Mittens 253
Socks 327
Squares 641
Rain Ponchos 216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

**Reminder to check details/requirements for squares before you knit, crochet, and mail. We will be collecting squares during the month of December and then will hold for several months. If you want to continue making squares do, but hold mailing them after December
If you have questions about sizing, when to mail because you're mailing something else as well....please contact me**

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!

Royalty Ghan in the Works

I've named this ghan, Royalty. The colors made me think of that. These gold, purple, and blue squares are being edge with dark green and should make a nice family afghan both in size and color when completed. It will be donated to our Homeless Families Foundation of course for Project Welcome Home.

Are you busy working on squares? It's the focus for this month in case you didn't know. All details available across the top (see tab labeled Give a Square), and or in the sidebar by clicking on the badge for Welcome Home. Please read BEFORE you knit, crochet and or mail. If you have squares that don't meet those guidelines but would still like to donate, please send me an email. Thanks!

2011 Donations:

Scarves 430
Hats 931
Mittens 253
Socks 327
Squares 641
Rain Ponchos 8216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

Please share our mission with a friend. Hand knit and or hand crocheted items do more then physical warm someone up, it gives them hope. Knowing someone took the time to make something special for them....gives hope and HOPE is a powerful emotion.

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!

Ohioans helping Ohioans in Need

Thank you Suzy D for this wonderful and thoughtful donation. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Your striped scarf is so nice and soft and long enough someone will be able to really wrap up in it...at least twice! Very nice indeed.

The hats are a nice mix of sizes and so well made.

2011 Donations:

Scarves 428+2=430
Hats 926+5=931
Mittens 253
Socks 322+5=327
Squares 636+5=641
Rain Ponchos 216
Cotton Washcloths 339
Sweaters/Poncho's 10
Slippers 110
Afghans 46 (2 sent to our friends at Pine Street)
Misc Items I've not counted misc items like all the personal care items, the neck warmers, head bands, shawl, hot packs, or yarn etc.

Look at our numbers growing folks, it's very exciting to me and I hope it is to you all as well. The higher the numbers, the people in need we're able to reach.

Please read square requirements with regard to size and color before you knit and crochet and mail. Details in The Give a Square Tab, as well as the Project Welcome Home Badge. Please, folks when you don't take time to tuck your tails, it really slows down my process of making them into afghans at this end; so please and thanks....tuck your tails as you go and that way you can crochet or knit them in.

**Added a nice charity blog award to the side bar, thank you Kathryn**

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. YOU truly DO make a difference. THANK YOU!