Happy Holidays!

 We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year. 2021 was another difficult year, as we were not able to have our regular meetings and spend time together, but we are so grateful to everyone who still took the time to knit and crochet for us, and work with us to arrange pickups and dropoffs of finished projects.

We still managed to give our charitable organizations a great number of items, and each of them was thrilled and surprised that even during the pandemic we were able to help them help the community with so many beautiful items.

Thank you all once again. We hope that sometime during 2022 we will be able to resume our meetings. In the meantime, please stay safe and healthy, and keep knitting!

Final Donations Made for 2021!

 We made our last donation for this year to the Krasman Centre in Richmond Hill. As always, they were very happy to receive 3 bags of items from us. Some will be going to their new shelter location on Georgina Island in Lake Simcoe to help out in that area.

We also delivered additional bags to Rose of Sharon, 360Kids and Yellow Brick House.

We'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who crafted for Casting Off the Cold through the lockdown and restrictions of the pandemic. All of the organizations we delivered to were thrilled to get our donations and were amazed at the number of items and that they were all handmade. Hopefully we can get back to meeting in person again next year!

Some last donations from the Amica group

We still had some donations come from the Amica group before we made our final drop-offs this year. We needed lots of scarves to go with many hats we had received, so Monica knit quite a few.

 

As well, we had our first scheduled meeting in almost 2 years at Amica in October. Friedl has been especially busy and donated all of these items:

She certainly is a 'knitting machine'! Thanks again to the Amica group for keeping up with their knitting even when they were in quarantine and unable to meet each other regularly.

MORE SCARVES

We have been working on scarves to match up lots of hats that were donated. So here are some from Sally, Norma, and Beth.

Thanks so much for helping out. 

Just a few more donations.

These lovely slippers and 2 scarves were dropped off with no name. 

And from Doreen B donated 5 beautiful blankets and a couple of hats. 

 Thank you so much ladies for your donation. Love them all.

FROM COROLLA AU

Thank you Corolla, for these beautiful hats. They will keep many people warm this winter.

 

MORE DONATIONS

We visited Rose of Sharon and the Markham Crisis Pregnancy Centre this week. As always, they were more than thrilled to receive our donations. We have been giving to both of these organizations since we started in 2006 and they have always used our baby blankets and other items in baskets for their young mothers.

Thanks to all the work of our members, they can continue to make sure their clients have warm winter items for themselves and their children. Thank you to everyone who donated to Casting Off the Cold!

4 bags were delivered to Rose of Sharon

The Pregnancy Centre received 6 bags

 

DONATION TIME!

 We've started making our annual donations of all of the wonderful knitted and crocheted items our members created with care and flair through the year.

Last year we were unable to donate to all of our charities because of COVID, so we were very happy to be able to give to them again this year.

The people at 360Kids were thrilled to see 6 bags for the young people who use their services.

And we dropped off another 7 bags at Yellow Brick House.

Everyone we've spoken to has been so thankful and appreciative of the efforts our members make to provide beautiful items. The need for assistance from the community has only increased because of the pandemic, and we are all happy to be able to use our crafting talent to help out. Thanks to everyone who donated to us through the year.

From Monica

Thank you Monica for these beautiful hat and cowls. Love the colours.

 

BLANKETS

Here are a few blankets i worked on over the last lockdown. 

 

LOTS MORE DONATION FROM THE MARKHAM GROUP

From Marilynn these three cowls,

Scarves from Jenn G

Also scarves from Georgia

And from Sunita, scarves and a few preemie blankets. 

Thank you so much everyone. great job!
 

Thank you Nancy

Nancy thank you for your lovely blankets.

 

From Cathy W

Here are some amazing baby blankets and hat and scarf set from Cathy W. Thank you so much for your beautiful donation Cathy. Love the colours!