Crafts and Charity

For some reason, this felt like it took forever. I am SO glad to be done.

10 Chemo Caps, 5 kids sizes for Ocean of Love in New Jersey, 5 adult hats for Wings Cancer Foundation in Mississippi.

The kid hats

The hat on the left is the “josh groban beanie” from Bev’s Country Cottage. The one on the right is an improvisation on the Jamie Baby hat pattern at Lionbrand.

This is from a pattern book, the name of which I can’t remember right now.

These hats were designed by Andi Smith — you can find her pattern at knitbrit.com/blog or via Ravelry. Apparently I knit tight because this pattern is supposed to be for bigger heads, but they work well for kids too 🙂

The adult hats

More of the design by Andi. I switched to larger needles (size 7 I think) and it worked great!

This is my own design but was based on a pattern I found at Head Huggers. The pattern is based on a prayer shawl pattern (knit 3 purl 3)

And an adult “josh groban beanie” from Bev’s Country Cottage.

Woot!!!

Alabama
Alaska: St. George’s Anglican Catholic Church Knifty Knitters
http://www.anglicancatholic.org/
8892 Duran Street
Juneau AK 99801 US
Arizona: Ninjasezzy preemie drive
Arkansas:Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Northwest Arkansas
2510 N. 17th St.
Rogers AR 72756 US
California: Twizittles local oncology ward drive
Colorado: Warm Hearts Warm Babies
Connecticut: Salvation Army w/Priscilla’s Guild
Delaware:Newborns in Need, Delaware Chapter
http://www.newbornsinneed.org/delaware
13 Grace Court
Newark DE 19702 US
Florida: VA in St. Petersburg
Georgia: www.emmazinggracefoundation.org
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois: Greater Chicago Ferret Association
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas:Victory in the Valley
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine: Nest Jean Lee
NestMaine
P.O. Box 6011
Falmouth, Maine, 04105
Maryland:
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Caroline Langrall,
Child Life Specialist
1708 W Rogers Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209
Massachusetts: www.afghanproject.org
Michigan: South Oakland Shelter
Minnesota
Mississippi: Wings Cancer Foundation through Caps For A Cure
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska: Robyn’s preemie hat drive
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey:Ocean of Love (Chemo caps)
New Mexico
New York:Lincoln Medical Center Room 2D5, 234 E 149 St, Bronx, NY 10451 Attn: maria Edwards.
North Carolina: Newborns in Need
North Dakota
Ohio: Items made and donated for a local homeless women’s shelter
Oklahoma: Crosh-aid
Oregon: Baby Love Blanket Drive
Pennsylvania: Bonnie’s Ronald McDonald House (Danville, PA 17821)
Rhode Island: East Bay Community Action Program
South Carolina
South Dakota: Pretty Bird Woman House
Tennessee
Texas: Prayer shawls for Crazigriffen’s mom’s church
Utah
Vermont
Virginia: Warm Up Winchester
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming: Homeless Coalition

And a close-up:

I used Red Heart yarn (light sage), Vanna’s Choice (dusty purple), and Palette white & silver.

I’m rather happy with how this turned out. And I’m rather happy it’s done since it’s for a wedding I’m going to on Sunday! :O

My charitable crafting has been slow of late. I know, I know. I was working on an afghan for my cousin, and then a friend of mine got some bad news, so I made a couple of prayer shawls for her…Here is a peekshure:

And now I am working on an afghan that I must have done by next weekend. Sheesh.

Projects are on the near horizon for charity, however. I’ve made one bag for Operation Bag of Home so far and I’m halfway done with another one. I’m going to be working on chemo caps for a location in Mississippi through Caps for a Cure and many other things as well.

Stay tuned! It won’t be another month. At least, I hope not!

Hi everyone,

Some of you may recall mentions about another charity I am working on with a friend of mine. The project is called Operation Bag of Home, and the idea is that we hand-make bags, fill them with little toiletries and/or fun stuff, and then ship the bags to troops overseas.

We are changing our approach a little bag and have come up with a few “themed” bags with exact lists of what would go into each bag. I am going to be making prototypes of each type of bag shortly…bags are basically like making 2 squares and sewing them together 🙂 We are also going to be working on bags intended specifically for female troops…we were thinking of including some small hair doo-dads in there. If anyone is into sewing but hasn’t really felt like there’s a charitable need for quick projects I think it would be neat to include some homemade pony tail or bun holders in these bags.

Here is the list of themed bags we are working on:

General Sanitary Package – MALE
1 bottle 1 – 2oz hand sanitizer
travel size toothpaste & toothbrush
travel size kleenex pack
travel size q-tips
1 tube chapstick

General Sanitary Package – FEMALE
1 bottle – 2oz hand sanitizer
travel size deodorant
1 small package hair ties and/or bobby pins
travel size toothpast & toothbrush
1 tube flavored chapstick
travel size comb

Extreme Weather – HOT
2 tubes chapstick
travel size sunblock
8 – 10 flavor drink mix pouches (20oz bottle size)
1 bottle 1 – 2oz hand sanitizer

THEME – Thanksgiving
letters and cards (not for bags, but to send with box)
small bag individually wrapped candies (no chocolate March through September)
2 pouches tuna fish
1 small box goldfish crackers
8 – 10 flavor drink mix pouches (20oz bottle size)
1 bottle 1 – 2oz hand sanitizer

Silly/Fun Bag
small bag individually wrapped candies (no chocolate March through September)
1 small canister silly string
2 small sized slim jims
1 SMALL water squirt guns

Visit us over at http://community.livejournal.com/operationboh if you are interested!

Alabama
Alaska: St. George’s Anglican Catholic Church Knifty Knitters
http://www.anglicancatholic.org/
8892 Duran Street
Juneau AK 99801 US
Arizona: Ninjasezzy preemie drive
Arkansas:Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Northwest Arkansas
2510 N. 17th St.
Rogers AR 72756 US
California: Twizittles local oncology ward drive
Colorado: Warm Hearts Warm Babies
Connecticut: Salvation Army w/Priscilla’s Guild
Delaware:Newborns in Need, Delaware Chapter
http://www.newbornsinneed.org/delaware
13 Grace Court
Newark DE 19702 US
Florida: VA in St. Petersburg
Georgia: www.emmazinggracefoundation.org
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois: Greater Chicago Ferret Association
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas:Victory in the Valley
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine: Nest Jean Lee
NestMaine
P.O. Box 6011
Falmouth, Maine, 04105
Maryland:
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Caroline Langrall,
Child Life Specialist
1708 W Rogers Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209
Massachusetts: www.afghanproject.org
Michigan: South Oakland Shelter
Minnesota
Mississippi: Wings Cancer Foundation through Caps For A Cure
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska: Robyn’s preemie hat drive
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey:http://www.hats4thehomeless.org/about.html
New Mexico
New York:Lincoln Medical Center Room 2D5, 234 E 149 St, Bronx, NY 10451 Attn: maria Edwards.
North Carolina: Newborns in Need
North Dakota
Ohio: Items made and donated for a local homeless women’s shelter
Oklahoma: Crosh-aid
Oregon: Baby Love Blanket Drive
Pennsylvania: Bonnie’s Ronald McDonald House (Danville, PA 17821)
Rhode Island: East Bay Community Action Program
South Carolina
South Dakota: Pretty Bird Woman House
Tennessee
Texas: Prayer shawls for Crazigriffen’s mom’s church
Utah
Vermont
Virginia: Warm Up Winchester
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming: Homeless Coalition

Got Arizona items officially mailed off. As you can see…still needing causes for a lot of states. Help me out with any ideas!

Incidentally, I found this Alabama CSNA charity on Lionbrand.com, but after repeated attempts to contact them, I’m not convinced they exist. Other ideas or information are welcome!

Alabama
Alaska: St. George’s Anglican Catholic Church Knifty Knitters
http://www.anglicancatholic.org/
8892 Duran Street
Juneau AK 99801 US
Arizona: Ninjasezzy preemie drive
Arkansas:Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Northwest Arkansas
2510 N. 17th St.
Rogers AR 72756 US
California: Twizittles local oncology ward drive
Colorado: Warm Hearts Warm Babies
Connecticut: Salvation Army w/Priscilla’s Guild
Delaware:Newborns in Need, Delaware Chapter
http://www.newbornsinneed.org/delaware
13 Grace Court
Newark DE 19702 US
Florida: VA in St. Petersburg
Georgia: www.emmazinggracefoundation.org
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois: Greater Chicago Ferret Association
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas:Victory in the Valley
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine: Nest Jean Lee
NestMaine
P.O. Box 6011
Falmouth, Maine, 04105
Maryland:
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Caroline Langrall,
Child Life Specialist
1708 W Rogers Ave
Baltimore, MD 21209
Massachusetts: www.afghanproject.org
Michigan: South Oakland Shelter
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska: Robyn’s preemie hat drive
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey:http://www.hats4thehomeless.org/about.html
New Mexico
New York:Lincoln Medical Center Room 2D5, 234 E 149 St, Bronx, NY 10451 Attn: maria Edwards.
North Carolina: Newborns in Need
North Dakota
Ohio: Items made and donated for a local homeless women’s shelter
Oklahoma: Crosh-aid
Oregon: Baby Love Blanket Drive
Pennsylvania: Bonnie’s Ronald McDonald House (Danville, PA 17821)
Rhode Island: East Bay Community Action Program
South Carolina
South Dakota: Pretty Bird Woman House
Tennessee
Texas: Prayer shawls for Crazigriffen’s mom’s church
Utah
Vermont
Virginia: Warm Up Winchester
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming: Homeless Coalition