VERY CLOSE TO DONATION DAY

Well this is what my basement looks like just be fore the end of October. By this time of the year I feel closed in when I go down to the basement to work. I am always worried that my clients will complain about the look of the basement, but to my surprise, they always commend me on all the great work we are doing.

Why do I keep them until now, because all the charities we donate to, dose not have space to store the good. The Shelters usually make up baskets for babies, mothers, and kids to be hand out for the holidays.

The out reach programs usually need warm clothing when they open up in November trough the winter months.

So there, it stays in my basement to remind me that we are doing a good thing for our community.

So if you would like to donate some knitted stuff to us you still have time to make a difference. You may think this is a lot, but for the 11 Shelters and Out Reach Programs we donate to, we need it all and more. Some need more than other but we would like to give even numbers to all, if we can.

Most of these bags a packed to the very top,


and very day I add more bags. All Afghans and blanket bags in this picture.











I will be working on those you see on the sofa soon and I will be receiving lots more stuff this week, to bag up.



More Afghans in these bags.








And now for the Stouffville team last donation for 2011.

Here is a gorgeous baby blanket from Donna,




and a baby blanket and sweater stet.

This is soooo cute.





This Afghan when through a few hand to finish.

Anne inherited the squares and put them together and Tracy added a border to it. Now it is done and looks great.


The happy hooker has strike again.

Look at these, a cute base ball hat for a baby and a beautiful dress and top.




Here she has some hat and scarf sets,




and this gorgeous blanket. I just love it!!!






And another blanket,




another with a hat,









And my goodness, look at this table, it is covered with fleece blankets. May be thirty? Not sure I will have to count.

Way to go Tracy!



Monica tried her hands on mitts and she did a great job at that.




Jane it using some bright colours to make her hat and scarf set and they are lovely as usual.





Well Ulrika who loves making bags, has knitted one for one of our members to carry her project in. so cute.



And here is a beautiful granny square blanket in great colours.






And Margaret, who also loves the vibrant colours, crocheted a beautiful baby blanket.



And I just love these hat and scarf sets.







Christine the knitting machine is working on kids hat and scarf sets and loving it. They are so pretty.



Christine loves to knit sweaters and thought she would knit up some strip sweaters. And she dose a great job knitting sweaters.




Now I have no idea who made this blanket.

May be some one will remind me!



This is such an amazing pattern to knit. And Pat knitted a second one in brown and beige. The first one was a red and white one.




Kathy knitted some lovely hat and scarf sets for boys.


If you can only see the dark sweater on the table close up, it is so cute, you would want to try it on. And a dress and sweater for girls, from Kathy.




I was going trough my stash and found quite a bit of fun fur yarn, I had for a while, so I thought this was a good time to use it up.

Hats and scarves for kids from me.

And Kim whipped up these beautiful hat and scarf sets, so we will have enough for every one.

Well I was amazed at the amount of stuff we collected on Sunday and as I mention earlier, we should be pretty close to 2000 items by next weekend.

I cannot thank you all enough for making this year the best one yet. Great job people.

MORE DONATIONS

We are almost at our 1500 goal, but would like to be over 1500 by donation day, which is October 30 at the Stouffville Library from 1.30 pm to 3pm.

You are welcome to join us and take part in this special day for those in need. Please drop by and bring along some items you would like to donate. Hats and scarves, blankets Etc.

From Dawn a scarf.










Hats for teen and a few sets, from Bev







and two scarves.

From Rowena, lots of scarves as usual!

Thank you so much Ladies.

LOTS MORE DONATIONS FROM MARKHAM

Its getting closer to Oct 30th and I am receiving lots of stuff to add to those large bags in the basement. It is so good to see all the wonderful stuff to give to the Charities we donate too, but I cannot wait to see it all gone. It looks as though it is taking over my basement. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's time. Winter is going to be here soon and they will need all of it.

Don't forget you can drop off any thing you would like to donate at any of the drop off spots. You can find them on the blog, or you can email me (Sally) to arrange for pick up or drop off.

I finally finish the rainbow block blanket and just love it, if I may say so myself. The colours are bright, yes, but you know what, most babies are attracted to bright colous!!


A hat and scarf set for a kid.



And here is the blanket.








A few items from Christine, a beautiful sweater and two hat and scarf sets. Lovely!








Another of Ulrika's bags.



And one for a girl.
They are amazing.







Ulrika used this large ball of yarn I inherited from some one, the ball had five strands together and she used a large hook to make this blanket. It turned out great!





A new member showed up at the Markam meeting and she had lots of goody's with her and her name is Sharon.

Here you can see some scarves,



a few hats,







and mitts,




Preemie hats and booties.

They are all so lovely.
Thank you Sharon!!




An guess who we did not see all summer, Parmajeet. Well she was at the meeting and also arrived with a lot of goody's.

Lots of hat and scarf sets for kids, which we needed,




a baby blanket,






and another blanket,



and this beautiful sweater,







and a poncho.



A boy's sweatsuit,










a lovely sweater for a little girl,





and another sweatsuit.
She makes such beautiful things.

And Barb is working away on all the hats she can make before the 30th. They are all so different.

Today I received lots of scarves from Rowena and I will take a picture and post it tomorrow.

Thank you all so much again for do a great job.

GEARING UP TO OUR BIG DONATION DAY

Here we are at the Stouffville Library for the last meeting before our big day. We are gearing up to the last minute collection of goods for those in need. So if you are thinking of donating some thing for our charities in York Region, you can drop it off at Candlelight and Memories on main street Stouffville and Pat will be happy to collect it for us.

This meeting we collected a lot of baby blanket from Tracy, since she was very busy this summer with work. We were very happy to see her, as usual with lots of stuff.





Here are two beautiful baby blankets from Kim.











And two lovely Afghans for guys.











A few hat and scarf sets form me.










These are so colourful, I love them!

they are from Sue.






A sweet jacket from Pat




and look at this, so cute,

also from Pat.







And another jacket and hat from Pat.




I love these hats, love the colours.

They were made by Barb.







Donna was also away for the summer, and again she crocheted two gorgeous blanket.














This Afghan was put together by Anne, the squares she inherited and it look a long time to finish, because as you can see they are very small squares. But she did a great job putting them together.

At the meeting, she mentioned that it should have a border, so we all decided that a border will look great.

I will post it when it is done.





Siobhan knitted this 10 stitch baby blanket, this turned out beautiful! And there is a cute jacket to go with it too.

I just love it.







Two lovely hat and scarf sets for Ulrika.



And one of her famous bags, this one is an abstract design. every one of her bags is one of a kind.





You will see on this table lots of fleece blankets,




and also on this table. WOW!







Another,



and some preemie hats.








Another blanket, great colours.








Squares put together, also from Tracy.



Love this one, she said it took her a day to make. Quick and easy.

you can find the patter on her blog.
welcome back happy hooker!

Here are some amazing hat and scarf sets from Christine.

She is enjoying the change from sweaters. Christine used up her bits to design these and they turned out great.

Well one more meeting before we donate all the stuff from my basement. The Markham meeting which is this Sunday Oct, 2.

Thank you all again for a great job done and hope to see you all on donation day, Oct, 30.