Thank you Sandie P for these two interesting scarves. I love the fun colors. This is a type of yarn that changes folks vs changing yarn and tucking edges. Oh how I love that idea. Would knitting or crocheting with this yarn be fun in making an afghan? Well...really in anything, but I think especially in an afghan where you really don't know when it's changing on you. Sandie says this yarn is Yarn Bee Sugar Wheel. I've not seen it at the stores, but am going to make a point to look for it..........like I need more yarn, lol. Sandie says it comes in 7 oz skeins and has lots of different color combinations to pick from.
Sandie has been a long time supporter of Bridge and Beyond, perhaps the very first one. If not the first pretty close to that from my memory. Thank you Sandie for your longevity. Folks you can pop over to Sandie's blog, it's listed in my blog list on the right hand sidebar. She's posted several variations of this fun yarn with recent projects. Check it out.
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.
Thank you Karen S for this wonderful donation of warm hats with a scarf that matches 2 of the hats. Thank you also for tagging your hats with size, that is such a benefit--both to me and to all the volunteers at the various shelters. It aids the item getting on the right shelf; which in turns gets necessary items into the hands of those in need quicker.
Folks you may have noticed the new progress bars in the right hand sidebar. I'm hoping this will help us see where we are in relation to where we would like to be...to meet our goal of donated items for the homeless that Bridge and Beyond serves. However, I have discovered that I need to add the numbers to the progress bars when I'm typing the blog posts. 99% of the time, the posts are written and scheduled to post later. I often type several posts in one sitting and have them scheduled to post even if I'm not sitting here on the computer. So, the downside of this new system is that what you see in the progress bars reflects whenever I last wrote blog posts, and will typically be ahead of the posts you're reading. Example. Yesterday's post, this one and the next 2 are being written...so the numbers for those 4 blog posts are reflected in the numbers in the progress bars. I'm currently going to try and figure the percentages out once a week, to keep from prefiguring the percentage with each blog post I write. I had thought, the percentages would be automatically updated, but apparently the html code doesn't do that.
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 warmth! Look at the variety here folks. Slippers in several different sizes and colors to help warm cold feet..........hats for the kiddo's is lots of cute styles, a couple of cowls..........and drum roll for ....you guessed it........MITTENS! And who knitted and donated all these goodies? Sue F! Many thanks Sue for remember us here on Bridge and Beyond. Extra thanks for tagging slippers and hats and mittens with size.
I have the trunk of my car all loaded up, as I type this blog post so I can make deliveries on Monday to Homeless Families Foundations.
Sadly the very top of picture is cut off a bit, as there are several hats you can just barely see there in the picture. Wished I had noticed that before tossing those 5 bags of donations in my car, I could have re-taken the picture; but no clue which bag they are in, or if they are all in the same bag. Luckily, my note tells me how many of everything so I plug in the number to our progress bars on the right.
Folks these progress bars are new, and not so far the easiest thing to use. If any of you bloggers know a different style, I would love to know. Likewise, if anyone knows how to change the default font on the blog. Some of the functionality seems to be gone that used to be available. I keep changing the font with each blog post I write, as I don't like the blog default one.......very small and not clean--straight forward looking at this one. Sing out if you have some thoughts on these two blogging issues. THanks!!
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.
Our first exciting donation of the year, 2018! Super warm (double thickness) crocheted hats from our good friend Barbara F from New York. Nice color selection, people the women will enjoy not only the comfort, but the style of these crocheted donated hats. Barbara has added nicely made size tags to her donation. The size tags aid the volunteers at the various homeless shelters. Many thanks Barbara for your dedication to Bridge and Beyond, your truly appreciated.
Folks, we're going to try a new counting system for this year. Please notice all the goal counters in the right sidebar, as well as the one centered above this post. I will probably rotate the one centered above this post (just started with Afghan, as it's an A and the start of the alphabet. Doing so, seems to help the spacing with our new formatted blog. The numbers I've used for our goals for the coming year, are the averages of our last 5 years of donations.....you'll see that number when you look at the chart by clicking on the stats link below.
If you've not had a chance, please read the posts about our Stats, as well as the post about how we can help the homeless and others in need. There really are many ways of helping, when perhaps you're too busy to knit or crochet; as well as ways of helping if you're not a knitter or crocheter.
Also, don't miss our impressive list of whom to thank!
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.
Where are You and Your Yarn From?
I'm trying to identify where everyone is from, partially for fun. Take a look at the map. Also, believe it will aid me in cases where we have several people with the same name. Please look at the lists of bloggers and non bloggers and see if I have the state you hail from. If not, please leave a comment and let me know.
Additionally, we've had help from Scotland, England, Germany Puerto Rico, Canada, and France! They don't appear on the map, but their help is still greatly appreciated.
