Monday, February 27, 2012

The Weekly Stitch

Good afternoon ladies!

Hope all is well with each of you and that you are enjoying this early spring weather. Makes me want to sit outside on my porch and knit!

Here is what is going on with YOH this week!

Meetings this week:
  • Tuesday - 10AM in the Hospitality Room at FBC McKinney
  • Wednesday - 6:15 in the HOSPITALITY Room at FBC McKinney (NOTE ROOM CHANGE!)
Current Projects:
  • Chemo caps and scarves - for adults, kids and babies. To be donated to Texas Oncology McKinney, Medical City Children's Hospital, and UT Southwestern Moncrief Center.
  • Blankets and knitted/crocheted toys - to be donated to Medical City Children's Hospital.
  • Bereavement Garments for Medical City Children's Hospital Labor & Delivery Department: I plan to deliver our first collection of gowns, sweaters, hats and blankets in the next week or so. However, we can still use more as this will be an ongoing project. Let me know if you need patterns as well as examples of what they are looking for.
Deliveries:
  • I am planning a trip to the cancer center and MCCH either this Friday or next Monday morning. Let me know if you are interested in going and which day works best for you.
God bless,

Monday, February 20, 2012

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The Weekly Stitch

Hello all,

Happy President's Day to all of you!! I probably wouldn't have realized that's what today is except that my boys were home today. We celebrated by going to the zoo - no knitting time there!! We had a great time and everyone was worn out, which does give me extra time to relax and knit! It's all about the knitting/crochet time, right?

Attention all of you ladies who sew!! We have about 15 boxes of fabric that was donated. This is a great opportunity for any of you who sew to have free fabric to work with!! Please let me know if you are interested and I will bring it to you.

Here is what is going on with YOH this week!

Meetings this week:
Current Projects:
  • Chemo caps and scarves - for adults, kids and babies. To be donated to Texas Oncology McKinney, Medical City Children's Hospital, and UT Southwestern Moncrief Center.
  • Blankets and knitted/crocheted toys - to be donated to Medical City Children's Hospital.
  • Bereavement Garments for Medical City Children's Hospital Labor & Delivery Department: This is a brand new project that will be so meaningful to the parents of these little babies who passed away. We will be making hats and gowns in the 2 pound or less size and blankets between 18-24" square. Let me know if you need patterns as well as examples of what they are looking for.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

JoAnn's Coming to McKinney

For those who have not heard, JoAnn's craft & fabric store is inching its way north and will be in McKinney by August. They will be housed in the old Circuit City store which is located off 75 & 380.

Hooray for more options closer to home!

The Weekly Stitch

Hello there!

Just two quick things in addition to our regular weekly update! One, we have been blessed with a new donation of yarn and fabric - 30 whole banker's boxes worth!! Wow doesn't even come close to expressing how exciting this is for our group. Just think of all the hats, scarves and blankets we can make with the yarn. And, for those of you who sew - just think about having free fabric to use to make baby/kids' quilts, rice warmer bags, and head scarves! For any of you who do sew, please let me know if you would like some of the fabric. Same goes for the yarn. Our storage resources are going to be stretched to the limits with this new donation so I would like to pass it out to all of you ladies as quickly as possible!

Secondly, this week is Valentine's Day so bring a sweet treat to share to our meetings - why should the kids get to have all of the fun at their parties?!?

Meetings this week

·   Tuesday - 10AM in the Hospitality Room at FBC McKinney
·   Wednesday - 6:15 in the Fireside Room at FBC McKinney

Current Projects

·   Chemo caps and scarves - for adults, kids and babies. To be donated to Texas Oncology McKinney, Medical City Children's Hospital, and UT Southwestern Moncrief Center.
·   Blankets and knitted/crocheted toys - to be donated to Medical City Children's Hospital.
·   Bereavement Garments for Medical City Children's Hospital Labor & Delivery Department: This is a brand new project that will be so meaningful to the parents of these little babies who passed away. We will be making hats, gowns and blankets all in the 2 pound or less size. Let me know if you need patterns as well as examples of what they are looking for.

God bless each of you!

Monday, February 6, 2012

The Weekly Stitch

Good morning ladies!

Hope everyone enjoyed watching the Super Bowl last night - I personally didn't care much who won but I enjoyed the multiple hours of knitting while watching the game.

Be sure to check out our website at www.yarnsofhope.org - it has been updated at long last with our logo, some new pictures and a link to our blog as well as a link to a new online store with logo items. This store is a service provided by our website provider. We were able to create a few basic items with the YOH logo and they are now available for ordering by anyone. We do not make any proceeds from the sales but it's a pretty cool way to offer a few logo items without ordering in bulk to do so. Let me know what you think!

Here is what is going on with YOH this week:

Meetings this week:
·         Tuesday - 10AM in the Hospitality Room at FBC McKinney
·         Wednesday - 6:15 in the Fireside Room at FBC McKinney

Current Projects:
·        Chemo caps and scarves - for adults, kids and babies. To be donated to Texas Oncology McKinney, Medical City Children's Hospital, and UT Southwestern Moncrief Center.
·        Blankets and knitted/crocheted toys - to be donated to Medical City Children's Hospital.
·        Bereavement Garments for Medical City Children's Hospital Labor & Delivery Department: This is a brand new project that will be so meaningful to the parents of these little babies who passed away. We will be making hats, gowns and blankets all in the 2 pound or less size. Let me know if you need patterns as well as examples of what they are looking for.

Thanks so much to each of you ladies for all that you do for our group.