Lots of Hats for Homeless and More

Many thanks Sandra R for this generous donation of knitted goodies.  She's been busy knitting hats, cotton washcloths, and scarves and mittens.  

Please click to enlarge so you can see details.  Each hat is nicely tagged with size.  Sandra has a variety of hat styles, colors, and sizes.......something to fit all heads.  Some colors work nicely for women, others for men, and some can be either or.  If you look closely you'll see there are some sets with matching hat and mittens.  YIPPEE for mittens.

Sandra must have included some sunshine for me in her donation cause we've had some nice weather lately.  Sure hope that continues.  A week ago we were still getting nights below freezing; but lately not...so have my toes and fingers crossed.

Please notice our hat goal graph.  With these hats we're now over 50% of the way to our goal!

Many thanks Sandra for your long time support of Bridge and Beyond, please keep up the good work.

**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.

Knitting, Crocheting, and Looming Help Homeless

Thank you Karen S for this thoughtful donation.  Karen has been busy looming hats, and crocheting scarves.  As always, kudos for taking time to make your cute size tags for your hats.  Please click to enlarge picture folks so you can see what I mean.  She's used a nice variety of colors and sizes, something for everyone.  

While it is Spring, and weather is getting better around the country, I want to let you all know; we're still having nights below freezing.  In fact 2 of the last 3 nights have gotten down into the 20's here.  Yesterday morning it was only 24 at 8:30 am, so the need is most definitely still there for warm items for our homeless friends.

It's been awhile since I've shared the video on how to make these two colored scarves.  If you've not seen it, wanted to give you the chance to watch.  This stitch has many names, two sided crochet is just one.  Click HERE for the video. 

Many thanks Karen for you continued support of Bridge and Beyond.

Hope you all are watching our numbers climb in our goal graphs, it's exciting to me each time I add more and figure our percentage.

**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.

New Helping Hands Aid The Homeless

Thank you Pat C for this awesome donation of knitted goodies.  Please say hi and welcome Pat C, our newest pair of helping hands.  As you can those helping hands have been very very busy indeed.

Pat has knitted hats, scarves, and mittens.  You know I'm dancing in the streets...as I always do when we get a donation of mittens.  Please click to enlarge the picture so you can see the details.  There are sets with matching hats and mittens, there are sets with matching mittens, hats and scarves, and there are sets with matching hats and scarves; plus others.  All nicely tagged with size!!  Fabulous.  There's such a nice color selection as well.  Truly something for everyone in need.

Pat also included a large package of socks in her donation.  With this dozen socks are sock numbers continue to climb, past our goal.  I'm very excited by that.  Warm, dry feet is a wonderful thing for everyone, and can be the difference between freezing or getting sick.

Take a look at our numbers for mittens!  We're almost at 50% there, another very exciting statistic when we add these 9 pairs.  

Many thanks for your generous donation Pat, sure hope to see you here often on Bridge and Beyond.

**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.

Hats and Scarves for the Homeless

Thank you AnneMarie from New York!  Look at this colorful donation of crocheted and knitted goodies from our friend AnneMarie.  Hats and scarves and if you click to enlarge the picture, think you'll be able to see wrist warmers (left side almost the top, a pinkish set of hat, scarf and warmers).  

The weather is breaking a bit, but I'm afraid to say spring is almost here for fear of jinxing it, but don't these colors make you think of spring.  Google tells me it's 8 days until spring as of the time of my typing this post and scheduling it to publish...so by the time you read this it will be even less.  YIPPEE!

Thank you for tagging all your hats with the size, that's really helps getting donations to the right people in a quicker time frame.  If you've click to enlarge the picture, you'll also notice a different style hat (the darker colors).  Those hats are knitted double thickness...that will really make them nice and warm.  

Many thanks AnneMarie for your ongoing support of Bridge and Beyond and your generous donation.  Please keep up the good work and know how important your help 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.

Helping the Homeless A Worthy Cause

Look who's been busy!  Our good friend Sandra R from the sunny state of Florida.  Please click to see everything, as I had to take photo a little father away than normal to get it all in.  WOW!

Sandra has knitted up a storm with hats, scarves (some are sets nicely put together), cotton wash cloths, and of course Mittens!

Lots of wonderful colors, some suited to the ladies, some to the men, and some that work for either.  Lots of variety in sizes also to warm many different sized people in need.  All hats nicely tagged with size......YIPPEE!!

AND in the upper right corner, notice a lavender bag?  Several people of late have been including canvass totes or similar material.  What a great idea.  Folks living in shelters and the elements often need to move around to stay safe.  So, having a bag can be very helpful.  After a couple of people included bags with their donations I looked around and found several here I wasn't using and added them to my last delivery to Homeless Families Foundation last week.  

Many thanks Sandra for your long time support and your always generous donations.  You've made an important difference in the lives of many.  Keep up the good work.

**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.

Socks Rock, Just Ask Any Homeless Person

Thank you Tara B for your continued monthly shipments of socks!  If you've not read this before folks, I want to tell you how smart Tara is.  To save herself shopping time and shipping, she set up deliveries from Amazon to Bridge and Beyond.  Without going back through my posts, I don't remember when she started doing this; but she's been doing it awhile.  Pretty cool, and like I said, pretty smart to my way of thinking.

Socks are needed all year long...yes even in the warmer months because no one likes cold wet feet.  Nor are cold wet feet healthy for anyone.

And remember in the last post I told you we have reached and exceeded our goal for socks for the year.........how awesome is that!  So this wonderful donation for Ohio's Homeless through Bridge and Beyond just adds to that. 

Clapping for all who've helped reach and exceed this goal!!!  Well done and keep up the good work.

Together we get things done and make a difference.  Thank you!

**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.