Hats, scarves, Personal Care and Great Team Work

 WOW!  16 awesome knitted cotton washcloths. These knitted cloths are made with the very popular corner to corner, Grandma's favorite type pattern.  You just can't go wrong with this tried and true long standing favorite pattern.  LOVE the colors.  Cotton Cloths are used is several ways.  They're awesome for folks living in the elements because they're so much nicer on your skin than a regular washcloth.  They're used in welcome home packs when family's transition from shelter living to a home situation and can be used as wash cloths or dish cloths.  These are always so well received.

 Scarves and toothbrushes! The toothbrushes are used again in family welcome packs, as well as by those living in the elements.  Scarves....used all year long by those in the elements and even in shelters which sometimes aren't all that warm.  LOVE the blue green......just happens to be one of my favorite color combinations.  

Hats and personal care items (soap).  The hats are a variety of sizes which is always helpful, as heads are a variety of sizes!  And soap, used like the cotton cloths and toothbrushes.........in all situations.

This wonderful donation is a team effort from our friends Nikki S and Christina D.  Great work ladies.  So cool to team up for a good cause.

Speaking of a good cause, our friend Nikki S just recently completed a 50 mile Pelotonia, raising funds for Cancer, the hideous disease that affects so many people.  This isn't her first time doing the Pelotonia...remarkable and kudos to you Nikki.  Love your spirit of charity.

**These donations were awhile ago, right before I left town for vacation, and were suppose to post...there have been some issues with blogger; which...fingers crossed seem to be improving.  So...this post is delayed, but it did give me the chance to tell you about Nikki and bike ride!

** 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.

Donation from Puerto Rico Helps Ohio's Homeless

WOW....this blog post should have been published some time back and somehow got buried in the drafts here on my blogger and never published.  So sorry to be delayed sharing this awesome donation of hats and scarves from our very good friend, Damaris in Puerto Rico.  Look at the variety of sizes and colors!!


Please do click to enlarge the photo so you can see the details.  I've folded the brim up on a few hats so you could see how it can be worn that way and or pulled down, depending on the weather and or head size.  They are beautifully made with contrasting colors.  Double knit so they will be extra warm.  Likewise the scarves are as well.  AND so nicely sized that people can really wrap up in the scarves.


Many many thanks Damaris for your on going support of Bridge and Beyond and your very generous donation.  You truly are making a difference.


**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.

The Lost Scarf Picture is Found

YIPPEE!!  Two posts ago I mentioned that the picture showing Sandra R's scarves had been lost.  It's since been found.  Somehow when transferring from phone to computer this picture ended up in the wrong file folder.  How two pictures taken the same day and transferred the same day, at the same time could end up in two different folders......I am clueless.  I have always transferred to my Yarn/Bridge folder and somehow this ended up in a totally unrelated folder.

The Good is now you all get to see what I saw, how nice Sandra's scarves all.  Nice, thick, warm and colorful.  AND...did you notice the two tone brown scarf?  She's again used that method first introduced to us by Karen S. Doubled Ended Crochet.  Click for the post with u-tube video describing this method of crocheting known by so many names. You might have heard of Cro-hooking, Crochenit...or Reversible Tunisian. 

So am thrilled the picture's been found and I can share the picture with you.  Sandra's has been a long time, generous supporter here on Bridge and Beyond.  Thank you Sandra and please keep up the good work.  You make a difference.


**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, Q=Queue, Qualify, & Quality

This graphic, picture has nothing to do with today's blog post, just a little funny I thought I'd share with you all.  Spotted it awhile back on Facebook.

Did you notice the numbers with our afghan goal?  We have officially now pasted the half way mark with our donations!  I'm thrilled to see that and hope we more than meet the goal as it's lower than some of our years.  

I'm currently over half way on an afghan I'm knitting.  Are you working on one?

Today's letter is Q in our blogging in Alphabetical Order.  Q, is never an easy letter.  The last two times through the alphabet, I blogged using the word quilt.  But, today I've chosen Queue, Quality, and Qualify as words that start with the letter Q.

Below is our Queue...of blogs while blogging in alphabetical Order this time round.  If you've not read any of these blog posts; please do take time.  And the only way we know you've visited is to leave a comment.  (hint hint, wink wink).

3rd List Blogging in Alphabetical Order.
A=afghans Resurecting Learning Logs.
B=Barnacle Bill and Blogging in Alphabetical Order
C=A Cocoon of Yarn, Blogging in Alphabetical Order
D=Blogging in Alphabetical Order, D=Dog & Homeless
E=Ends, Blogging Alphabetically
F=FEAR, Fibers, and Fun Colors Matter
G=Donald Gould, Homeless in Sarasota, Florida
H=Hard Life, Hovel, Homeless & More, So Sad
I=Blogging in Alphabetical Order, Illness in Homeless
J= New Afghan Needs name, Blogging in Alphabetic Order, Jobless & Judgement
K=Kindness, Giving Away Kindness and blogging in Alphabetical Order
L= Love, Loitering and the Law
M=Assembling Mountain Meadow
N=Nameless Afghan, Blogging in Alphabetical Order
O=Being Homeless, An Outcast causes Outrage, or Does it?
P=Homeless Man's Belongings and Pollution, Blogging in Alphabetical Order

Quality.  I believe we improve the quality of someone's day when we gift them a warm hat, or scarf, or beautiful afghan.  If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't be continuing with Bridge and Beyond.  I believe you all think the same or you wouldn't spend your valuable time and tremendous skills to knit and crochet for Bridge and Beyond.

Qualify.  One of the problems Homeless people face is knowing what help they might quality for.  Knowing where to go, whom to talk to in order to find out what they might qualify for.  There are out reach programs that carry note cards with names, phone numbers, and addresses of help programs to give to homeless people they encountered to help them in the process.  Sometimes they also provide transportion or bus passes to help those in need.  Think about that, if you needed help tomorrow.....do you know how to find out what you might quality for?  Sadly, a large number of people really don't.  So think about that and add being hungry, sleep deprived and or fearful to the mix.  These are just of what homeless people deal with on a daily basis.

**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.

Knitted Log Cabin Afghan Donated

GORGEOUS!!!  I love this style afghan.  It's the log cabin style.  Our good friend Sandra R has knitted several in this style for us before.  And they are always so wonderfullly done.  These colors are so nice together.  I really love the look of this one and know it will be thrilling to whomever receives this.  It's perfect in size and colors to work for men, women, and or a family!

Sandra also included 5 scarves, but sadly something happened to the picture, so I can't share them with you.  I know there were 5 based on her note and mine here by the computer, but the picture.........no clue what happened to it.  I can't retake the photo, because things have already been delivered.

With my broken foot it had been longer than I like since making rounds.  So hubby loaded up his car (explorer holds more than my car), and took me the other day during his lunch break.  I am now able to move around better, but am still limited and carrying back and forth and trying to walk while carrying  aren't things I'm able to do well, just yet.

As always Sandra, many many thanks for your generosity and your ongoing support of Bridge and Beyond and Ohio's Homeless in Need.

**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.

Homeless Man's Belongings and Pollution, Blogging in Alphabetical Order

Today's letter in our blogging in alphabetical order is P.  I focused on Pollution.  When I viewed this video, that's what first came to mind.  This jogger, initially named #Jogger Joe and later identified as Henry William Sintay is polluting.  Does he actually think he's helping clean up trash...or what he thinks is trash by throwing it in Lake Merritt in Oakland California?

• Yes, some of the stuff, the personal belongings of a homeless man may appear to be trash to walkers, runners etc that frequent the area; but how does breaking the bottles and spreading them about help?
• How does stealing personal belongings that aren't yours help?
• How does polluting The Lake seem like a good idea?
• How can things like this be fixed?   Are there not enough trash cans around for the homeless man to put his actual trash in?
• What a cruel and thoughtless thing for this #joggerJoe, #HenryWilliamSintay to do.  I'm glad he was arrested and put in jail and fined.
• Doing a google search produces several articles and other video's.  Apparently This Henry William Sintay arrest is for first degree robbery, he's also assaulted someone, tried to steal a cell phone.  Thus the large bail at $100,000.00.
• In one clip he says he's cleaning up trash and pretends not to know it's a homeless person's belongings........in another clip he says the man has taken up permanent residence in this area.  So clearly he knew it was just "trash".
• Homeless person is Greg Markson known to people in the area as a peaceful homeless man who goes by the name of Drew (which I saw spelled a few different ways in my google search of articles).
• JJ Harris is the person who did the filming.
• When Greg Markson returned to what had been his tidy camp (according to those who interacted with him on a regular basis), he stuff had been destroyed.  Locals brought him fresh blankets to help him through the weekend.

**This is the same park where a White Woman recently called the police on Black picnickers who were grilling out.  You might remember his video went viral.  Speculation is, this White JoggerJoe, Henry William Sintay is yet another racist incident, as the homeless man who's camp was destroyed is a Black Man.

**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.