Hello Everyone, I do hope you are enjoying this new year and that your holidays were all you wished them to be.
I want you to know that we delivered 8781 blankets in 2010. Since our chapter opened we have delivered 60,242 blankets to children in need! I still remember when we are approaching that 10,000 blanket and how excited I was…I never thought we would be over 60,000 now! Thank you all for all your hard work!
I need to get the word out that we have our blanket day all planned. National Make a Blanket day is Saturday Feb. 19th from 9 am to 3pm. We have lots of exciting things planned for the day. We will be making the free pattern that Ellen Repogle designed for us and brought with her to our Sept event. Now for those of you who crochet or knit we have an event for you also, Elaine Bain will be working with you and working up a pattern for you for that day. For those of you who don’t sew, crochet or knit I have a plan for you. We have some fleece that needs some TLC.
Things you need to bring:
For sewers, a machine, extension cord or power strip, basic sewing supplies, 6 fat quarters, 5/8 yard fabric for borders, and 1 ¼ yard backing fabric. If you finish your top I will provide you with the batting to finish your quilt. If you received the pattern in Sept feel free to go ahead and cut it out or cut out several tops, it is the Caddy-Corners Small Lap quilt.
Crochet folks should bring, you will need 4 skeins chunky yarn ( 600 yds total) and size J crochet hook
Knitters you will bring, 40 oz 4 ply worsted weight yarn and size 10 circular needles
If you are coming to work with fleece…just bring yourself!
EVERYONE SHOULD BRING A SACK LUNCH, they have a pop machine there that we can use.
Crittenton Childrens Center is located at 10918 Elm Ave, Kansas City MO 64134, it is just off Raytown Rd south of 470 Hwy, we will have signs out and you can email me for directions if you need them.
NOW IMPORTANT NEWS!!!!!
Blanket donations are very, very down. We don’t have enough blankets to make our January deliveries! Donations were also low in December. I do understand that everyone is busy during the holidays but please if you have a little time make a blanket and turn it in so we can get at least our normal deliveries made. We’ve also had some requests for blankets from other groups this year and we are just not able to help them because we can’t even cover our own deliveries. I know money is tight for everyone but please consider making a blanket. If you need some fabric check out Addadi’s fabrics at 9629 W 87th St, Overland Park KS, they have great prices and tell them you are there to get fabric of Project Linus they will treat you right!!
Continue to save Best Choice labels, we receive $15 for every 1000 labels we turn in. You should only save Best Choice UPC codes. We don’t collect any other brand…we have received a few Always save and so others we don’t collect those. Please turn your labels in envelopes with your blankets so we can be counting them as we go, so I’m not counting thousands of them in November.
One last thing, when you turn blankets in they MUST be in bags! I have volunteers pick them and bring them to me and if you don’t have them in a bag it makes it very difficult for them to load and unload not to mention they are not protected and can get dirty.
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I plan on bringing some of my own yarn to Blanket Day, but I was wondering if you had contacted any local yarn shops or national yarn companies about donating some yarn to the cause. I think more people would be able to help if the yarn was provided. If you are interested, I would be willing to try making some contacts on behalf of the group and make the yarn available to those who would like to help.
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