Books for the Soul and Crocheted Cotton Clothes

Thank you Sharon H for this thoughtful donation.  Sharon has crocheted some cotton washcloths, which the shelters all love.  They use them when people first get into the system with bath kits, they use them again in moving out packages where they can be used as washcloths and or kitchen dish cloths.  Sharon has also included some of her books for the book shelf at Homeless Families Foundation.  She hope to inspire some folks and help put purpose back into lives, as we all try to aid with necessary warm items.

Thank you Sharon.


WOOT WOOT, messed around more and found the page somehow hidden...but please still feel free to let us know if you have a good pattern to add!!  Here's the Mitten Tab.

Folks, if you missed the  post where I included a graph of how we're doing with each of the items we knit and crochet and donate and compared it to this time last year.  Please click HERE


2013 Donations:

Hats:  399
Scarves: 315
Socks: 224
Afghans: 31
Slippers: 162
Rain Ponchos: 203
Mittens: 77
Cotton Wash Clothes: 445+4=449
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts etc. : 14
Misc. Items: include personal care, headbands, hand-warmers, cowls/gators and all meal prep related items, Dolls &and ; associated items, stuffed/crocheted/knitted toys... etc aren't tabulated.


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.

July is Mitten Month

Thought you all might get a kick out of this comic I saw a few days back on Facebook!  I know my hubby would prefer that I not talk about mine, lol.

Can you believe it's July?  Good grief time goes by quickly.  The focus for this month is mittens.  We never get enough mittens, and I'm sorry to say there's very little information on our mitten tab; but do click it...it's a short read.  Sometime back while editing the page blogspot had an oophs and I lost the whole page...argh...even the patterns.  In the process of trying to rebuild that page so please feel free to let me know your patterns.  Remember we can copy and paste patterns that are copyrighted, but we can provide links and give credit if the pattern is here on line or is your own pattern.

WOOT WOOT, messed around more and found the page somehow hidden...but please still feel free to let us know if you have a good pattern to add!!  Here's the Mitten Tab.

Folks, if you missed the  post where I included a graph of how we're doing with each of the items we knit and crochet and donate and compared it to this time last year.  Please click HERE


2013 Donations:

Hats:  399
Scarves: 315
Socks: 224
Afghans: 31
Slippers: 162
Rain Ponchos: 203
Mittens: 77
Cotton Wash Clothes: 445
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts etc. : 14
Misc. Items: include personal care, headbands, hand-warmers, cowls/gators and all meal prep related items, Dolls &and ; associated items, stuffed/crocheted/knitted toys... etc aren't tabulated.

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.

Non-Skid Slippers Donated

  Thank you Blanca T from Ohio, our newest pair of helping hands.   She and her crochet hook have been very busy, as you can see.  She's crocheted and donated a wide variety of hat colors and sizes.  Check out the black and red toward the left corner.  It's one of those with a bill.  How cute is that!  She's included personal care items which are always needed and appreciated.  A short while back I mentioned she indicated you could make slippers non skid by putting dots of silicone on the bottom.  I turned one of the slippers over so you could see said silicone.    She indicated it was available in hardware stores, to add a few dots and make it dries.

Thanks for the helpful idea and welcome to the group.  We're always happy to have more helping hands.

Folks, if you missed the day before yesterdays post, please scroll back and read.  I've included a graph of how we're doing with each of the items we knit and crochet and donate and compared it to this time last year.


2013 Donations:

Hats:  388+11=399
Scarves: 314+1=315
Socks: 224
Afghans: 31
Slippers: 156+6=162
Rain Ponchos: 203
Mittens: 77
Cotton Wash Clothes: 445
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts etc. : 14
Misc. Items: include personal care, headbands, hand-warmers, cowls/gators and all meal prep related items, Dolls &and ; associated items, stuffed/crocheted/knitted toys... etc aren't tabulated.


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.

Keeping Ohio's Feet Warm

Thank you Yvonne for this great donation.  Cute knitted slippers and awesome warm socks.  That long neck on the sock will add to the warmth factor too.  Great idea.  I appreciate your tagging and pairing your slippers...very nice.

Keep up the good work Yvonne!

Folks, if you missed yesterdays post, please scroll back and read.  I've included a graph of how we're doing with each of the items we knit and crochet and donate and compared it to this time last year.


2013 Donations:

Hats:  388
Scarves: 314
Socks: 224
Afghans: 31
Slippers: 153+3=156
Rain Ponchos: 203
Mittens: 77
Cotton Wash Clothes: 445
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts etc. : 14
Misc. Items: include personal care, headbands, hand-warmers, cowls/gators and all meal prep related items, Dolls &and ; associated items, stuffed/crocheted/knitted toys... etc aren't tabulated.

  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.

This Time Last Year

The daises are blooming like mad right now in my yard.  Some have gotten so full and big and heavy they're flopping over.  Need to tie them up; but aren't they beautiful?  I love pretty flowers and daisies make me smile.  Hope they do you too.

Wanted to let you all know how we're doing, where we were at this time last year.  Thought you find it perhaps inspiring to keep those hooks and needles flying through out the summer.  Also thought it might help you decide what you wanted to make.

As of today, June 29th here's where we are:
 

ITEM	NOW	LAST YEAR	PLUS/MINUS
Hats	388	451	-63
Scarves	314	252	+62
Socks	224	116	+108
Afghans	31	23	+8
Slippers	153	82	+71
Rain Ponchos	203	198	+5
Mittens	77	252	-175
Cotton Cloths	445	369	+76

 
You can see from the chart the only items we've knitted, crocheted and donated less of todate are Hats and Mittens.  I'm pleased to see, and hope you are too that we've knitted, crocheted and donated more of all other items!!  Awesome work folks, Thank You.



How fitting is it that we're moving from June to July's focus...and you guessed it the focus is mittens!  Mittens will be the focus for the next 2 months July and in August we'll double up with the focus being has and mittens.  Some time back we lost a page here when blogger was having some issues.  Sadly, that means we lost all our good information and patterns for mittens.  Please let me know what patterns you all use.  Currently we have only one pattern posted, a crochet one that is basic double crochets.  We need some reliable patterns to post folks.  Does anyone have a 2 needle knitted pattern they can share?

Things to remember when making mittens....no white, in fact avoid all light colors.  Mittens get dirty.  Mittens must be paired and tagged with size.  No open stitches, even with double crochet they're can be sometimes too much openness if you're not one that crochets tightly.  Please consider dropping down a hook size if you have loose tension so the mitt will be warmer. 



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.

Two Boxes of Donations

Thank you Sue F for this awesome donation.  Wow, 2 boxes of donated goodies!  Sue knitted 3 pairs of fabulous slippers/booties.  Sue would love to post the pattern you use for these booties...so nice and warm.  She also knitted and crocheted 10 cotton washcloths in a variety of sizes, colors and styles (neat mix of stitches), and a fun and very cheery afghan.  Her afghan is made in the traditional corner to corner...Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth pattern.  She's then joined 6 large squares...very cool idea.

She's also forwarded some yarn, fun novelty yarn that will probably find it's way into another one of our give aways/contest since we don't use novelty yarns for our donations.  Stay tuned, we always have a contest of some sort during the summer months.

Thank you Sue for your thoughtful donation, please keep up the good work!

Added a new slipper pattern yesterday to the slipper tab from our good friend Tristi.  Please check it out.  How can you turn down something with the title of EASY Double Strand Slippers.  She says they go fast too.  What a plus fast and easy!  Thank you Trisit.

2013 Donations:

Hats:  388
Scarves: 314
Socks: 224
Afghans: 30+1=31
Slippers: 150+3=153
Rain Ponchos: 203
Mittens: 77
Cotton Wash Clothes: 435+10=445
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts etc. : 14
Misc. Items: include personal care, headbands, hand-warmers, cowls/gators and all meal prep related items, Dolls &and ; associated items, stuffed/crocheted/knitted toys... etc aren't tabulated.




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.