Thank you Kathy S for this awesome donation. Kathy is our newest pair of helping hands, and we're thrilled to have you join us in warming Ohio's Homeless in need. As you can see, Kathy has quite a selection of colors in her scarves. I think my favorite might be the oceany blue that's unfolded...or maybe the 2nd to left purplish blue where the scarf changes hues. Be sure to click on the picture to enlarge so you can see the colors I'm talking about. She also has included 2 loomed hats.
You can tell Kathy's been busy with crocheting 15 scaves!
Have you noticed the count down til Spring in the right side bar here on the blog....I'm trying hard to will it to get here sooner. As I type this post it's only 7 outside. I hope this latest winter storm hasn't been too bad for you all. I know many got a lot of snow, ice, and wind. Am hoping you're staying warm, and safe.
That's me looking out at the cold ugly, except...I'm not smiling like the emoji is.
**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 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.
Thank you Karen S for this thoughtful donation. Karen has loomed (knitted) 5 awesome hats in great colors to warm 5 heads. As I type this scheduled post it is 7 degrees out. 7 degrees folks, that's 25 degrees BELOW freezing. It's 72% humidity out, all that dampness makes it even colder. The only good thing is, with time I type a post........we're one day closer to spring. Which in my opinion can't come soon enough. I truly detest winter, the snow, the ice, the cold. With each year I age, I find my patience with winter becomes even less.
Karen always tags her hats with such cute size tags. I encourage everyone to remember to tag your hats with size. When they aren't tagged with size, I have to guess what size head they'll fit as do the the volunteers at the shelters in order to get it to the right area. Tagging helps a lot. Tags don't have to be artistic, or cleaver; but these cute little round circles do add to the gift. And that's what our donations are, they are gifts.
These colors Karen has chosen are wonderful. These are colors that work well for men or women
Thank you Karen and please keep up the good work, and know YOU make a difference in warming up a cold homeless person.
**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.
These are my project bags. I mentioned in a previous post I had pulled out yarn to work on projects and tucked them into project bags. Additionally I had pulled out things that needed to be assembled into an afghan and found appropriate yarn to complete that project.
In these 7 projects bags are afghans named:
Pippi Longstocking (you saw it in a previous post)
Brown Marble
Rolling Hills
Brick Yard
Also bags of ghans to be...that I need names for:
- There's a blue ripple one (there was a very early picture of that right after the New Years). I can call it blue ripple...but maybe blue waves is better? Going with Ocean Waves, see below. Lisa you're on a roll. Thanks loads.
- There's one that will be Purple and Turquoise....any ideas of names? Cute idea, Elsa's Dream from Frozen. I did have one already titled Purple Mountain Majesty.
- One that will be a brown variegated and dark brown solid....any ideas on that? See below's comments. LOVE the suggestion of Latte' Love. Thank you Lisa!
- One that's blue and grey stripes..large sections
Here's the start of the blue ripple. A friend suggest Ocean Wave, which lead me to Blue Ocean. The previous picture of this ghan showed brown variegated with it, which I've now decided against. This will be shades of blue.
I'm open to ideas folks so please sing out if you have an idea.
Pictures will be forthcoming...once I get said projects out of the project bags.
What are you all working on?
**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.
A little humor for you all. I don't have a picture or appropriate word for the letter Z. The two previous posts were titled Zneesy and Homeless and Finding Zen. I didn't come up with anything new to share with you.
Doing a google search it gave me the words zero, zilch, and zone...but I got no where trying to tie those words to being homeless.
Thinking about knitting, crocheting, yarn, looming etc I can think we're in the zone when we're busy at work...but that's about as far as my mind goes. Any ideas from you all?
By now, you've probably noticed the count down to Spring in the right sidebar is in fact counting down.......yippee Skippy. Also by now, you've probably noticed the new goal numbers for the year of 2019.
**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 brings us to today's letter Y. In the previous round of blogging in alphabetical order, the letter Y's post was titled Yarn, A poem. I've posted it here on Bridge and Beyond a couple of times, the poem that is. My darling SIL wrote it for me and I really like it. Please check out the previous post and her poem.
Back when I was blogging in alphabetical order for the blog challenge, the post for Y was...Yarn Helps Homeless. Always nice to have folks go back and re-read or read for the first time previous posts.
Soooooo, it seems I've not come up with anything new for the letter Y. Before you is a picture of yarn...of yarn helping the homeless. What you don't see here in this picture is the rest of it, lol. I decided it was time to tame the stash and brought up every container and bag from the basement and sorted the stash based on color. It was sorted that way a few years ago, but with additional yarn being donated, my having bits and pieces left from projects, taking yarn out to use and finding it not quite the color I needed and it might not getting back in the proper place.......... it needed to be done again...........this yarn organization took almost a whole day.
Additionally, I was making up projects bags by laying out projects to work on and selecting the yarn needed to put it in one of my many project bags. I now ...drum roll...have filled 7 bags here in my office for 7 projects with the yarn necessary to complete them....all afghans. There's still plenty of yarn, and plenty of empty bags...but I was trying not to go crazy with the idea, lol
This afghan was designed sometime back from stripes someone sent that were too short and narrow to be scarves. They will be joined, and added to enough to make a afghan. I laid out green, rose, and tan for possible colors to edge and join...stay tuned for which one I ended up selecting.
**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.
In the previous round of blogging in alphabetical order, My blog title was Xenium and Homelessness. That post was published on April 2, 2018. When I first blogged in alphabetical order as part of a blog contest April 2th, 2015, my X post was Xenophobia. If you didn't read those posts, or don't remember them, please click on the words to go to those posts.
Currently doing a google search for another X post word I came up dry. In that I found a list of 340 vocabulary words connected in some capacity to homelessness and X was blank! Yikes. Searching further, google tells me there are about 400 words in the English language that start with the letter X, and that includes names, and places, and words no longer used.
Digging a little deeper, I found a word I used once before for the letter X, just not on this blog. One year when I did the blog challenge I entered all 3 of my blogs (once was certainly enough to do that, whew!). On one of my other blogs, I used the word, XANTHIC which means yellowish....there's yellowish in my cartoon above, and the fact that's it's about sheep/yarn/fiber.........believe that's the best I can do for this round of blogging in alphabetical order in search of a word that starts with X.
I thought the comic was cute, and perhaps you do as well. Funny even, but certainly nothing about being homeless and cold is funny. So please folks, do your best to keep busy with your yarn and crochet hook and or knitting needles.
**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.
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.
