Loomed Hats Help the Homeless

Thank you Karen S for this thoughtful and generous donation!!  Karen has been busy with her loom knitting these wonderful warm hats.  Loomed hats are always so nice and warm because they're made with a double thickness of yarn.  Additionally, they have the brim area which is actually thicker still.  

What a nice mix of colors Karen.  Something here for men and women.  AND I love how you've upped your game with the adorable size tags.  Folks, please click so you can see the details.  She's cut out hearts, added the size to the hearts, punches a hold and tied on the hats with yarn.  Really nicely done.

We ask everyone to tag their hats with size, as it helps the volunteers at the various shelters get items into the right area for quick distribution to the folks in need.  

8 People will know they are cared for with this lovely donation.  As Always Karen, please keep up the good work and know you make a difference in the lives of many.

*****hey folks did you notice the goal counter in the left side bar.....with this donation, we're now just over 40% of our goal for hats!!!

**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.

Long Time Supporter, Sandie P, Thank You for your Donations

 Thank you Sandie P for these awesome crocheted scarves.  The blue-green scarf is super soft Lion Brand Homespun Yarn.  You can see it has a bit more texture, partially due to the yarn and partially due to the different stitch Sandie used.  Sandie has been one of the longest supporters of Bridge and Beyond and Ohio's Homeless.  Her work is always beautiful.

Sandie maintains a blog where she often does tutorials about how to do a particular stitch or how to work with a particular pattern.  If you've not visited her blog, please do.  These two donations of crocheted scarves came in 2 separate pouches at different times, but because I'm playing catch up, I'm posting them here together.  Notice there's actually sunshine on the 2nd picture with the 3 nice gray scarves..........we don't see much of that this time of the year.  Seriously, today as I'm typing it's just warmed up to 28 degrees.......yes that means it was colder earlier.  It was 20 when I got out of bed this am.  I'm cold here in the house, so it's beyond my comprehension how cold it must for folks living out in the elements.  So, truly these warm scarves that are long enough to wrap around and wide enough to really cover the neck and chest are perfect.

Folks, please refresh your memory about what sizes, colors, and fibers are needed by reading the information in the tabs across the top of the blog for the item you're knitting or crocheting.  It's important to be sure our donations meet the needs of those we serve.  Please remember to stay away from white, and pastels and suede or novelty or wool yarn.  We need items made that can be washed and that hold up well.  If you have question not addressed in those tabs across the top of the blog, please sing out.

Thank you Sandie for your long time support and your giving heart.



**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.

Joy to The World, Joy to the Fishes and the Deep Blue Sea

Thank you, Thank you!  My old friend Joy D.....yes I couldn't help but think of The 3 Dog Nights Joy to the World......  But, back to Joy, you can see she been super busy with yarn and her speedy crochet hook.  Joy is another one of my high school friends, who I recently saw at our 50th High School Reunion.  I've known Joy many years, as we also went to Junior High together back in the day.  I knew her Mother well, as she was a pink lady at the hospital where I was a Candy Striper.  Pink Ladies are volunteers, who's uniforms were pink, back in the day.

Joy's work is very special.  Click the picture to make it larger so you can see all the colors and styles of hats and scarves she has crocheted.  Her work is always super warm because it's nice and thick.  I really don't know how she crochets so tightly, it would make my arthritis go bonkers.  Joy has included hats and scarves, many are matches sets.

A few posts ago I posted another donation from one of my previous classmates.  I think it's pretty special that friends I knew that many long years ago are using their talents to help Ohio's Homeless through their donations here on Bridge and Beyond.  Joy lives in Delaware.  It was so awesome getting to visit with you at the reunion; but like so many truly not enough time to visit with everyone for any period of time.

Thank you for your long term friendship and your long time support of Bridge and Beyond, and please keep up the good work and know you've made a difference in the lives of so many people.

**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, Crocheted Scarves Help the Homeless

Thank you Karen S!  I bet by now most of you who frequent my blog, Bridge and Beyond are able to recognize Karen's donations before I give her name!  Her signature stitch, is very recognizable.  I've posted video's a few times of how to do this stitch of many names.

Seriously this stitch is known by lots of different names:
Cro-hooking
Crochenit
Reversable Tunisian Crochet
Double Ended Crochet.........are just some of them.  Click here for the video if  you've not watched before or want to see how it's done.

Karen has also included a toothbrush and paste.  Which brings me to something about personal care items I thought I would pass along to you all.  I've often mentioned collecting those little samples as you travel for leisure or business.......I've done it myself often when traveling; but........apparently some hotel chains are starting to do away with that for environmental reasons.  In an effort to reduce the plastic, they are going for larger, refillable containers with soap, shampoo and conditioner.  I know Marriott has announced that it's phasing it in and I've seen in thus far in a few hotels in my travels.  I'm not familiar with others; but thought I would mention it here, so you can at least be aware.  Due to being members, we always stay at Marriott's.  I would imagine other chains are doing the same thing?

Many thanks Karen for your donation, and your on going support of Bridge and Beyond and Ohio's homeless.  Please know we truly appreciate you, and your skillful hands.  Please keep as the good work and know you do make a difference in the lives 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.

Knitted Hats From Florida Help Cold Ohio Homeless

Thank you Cheryl G for this donation of knitted hats.  A little background here folks is Cheryl G is a classmate of mine.  A hundred years ago we graduated from high school together.......well maybe not a hundred years ago.......half that.  We recently celebrated our 50th reunion.  Cheryl returned to Ohio from Sunny Florida where she has no need of these nice warm hats for the reunion and hand delivered these hats to me at the reunion!  I thought that was cool, and wanted to share with you all.

These hats are super stretchy...you may not be able to tell that from the picture; but with the ribbing these hats will fit a large variety of head sizes which is awesome.  I love variegated especially because they're good for the men folk (well not the ones with pink, but you know what I mean).  

Cheryl I know I've asked you before for your pattern and thought I had added it to the hat tab, but didn't see it.  Could you send it to me again, love to post it.  I'm assuming you can adjust the size by the number you cast on?  If you wanted the hat to be longer?  It seems like this would be a good pattern and give people the ability to go up or down in size if they wanted to?

Wonderful to see you again at the reunion, I just wish there had been more time to talk.  Cheryl and I graduated with a large class...the number somewhat debatable, but around 480 we think.  No we didn't get that many people at the reunion, but we had over 100, so trying to talk to everyone wasn't an easy task.

Thank you for your on going support of Bridge and Beyond and Ohio's Homeless.  So nice of you to keep thinking of us while you're down there in Florida enjoying the sunshine.

**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.

Donations from Tennessee, The Volunteer State

Thank you Anna W!  Anna hails from Tennessee, The Volunteer State.  As you can see Anna has been very busy volunteering.  She's crocheted loomed hats in 2 different styles.  The hats vary in size (many thanks for labeling with size).  AND look at all the nice dark colors.....

She's also been busy looming those great wrist warmers/fingerless mitts.  This is a really nice pattern, as they're nice and long and truly come up the arm for added warmth.

I'm adding the link to the blog post showing how to make them.  Click HERE

The wrist warmers/fingerless mitts are also in the nice dark colors and match many of the hats she's made.

Many thanks Anna for your volunteering.....keep up the good work and know you're truly appreciated.


**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.