Well?

How was your Fourth? Or, for any international folk...how was your yesterday? :D

Here are 9 hats ready to go to WINC
so you should be able to reach the 20.
Will let you know when I have other items to send,
these were fun, seems like when I do patterns, the hat gets finished in no time,
happy crafting.
Susan

July Goals

So I am happily stepping up to be your July Mod. Here's that post you've been waiting for, where we present the July goals, which are not yet carved in stone.

Considering that we made over 500 items for June, and considering that it's still summer, and those of us who are students are currently on break, I'm going to set the goal pretty high. Originally I pondered 2000, but that might be a little much. So I'm going to set the bar at:

1650. That's a bit over 400 for this month, which is less than 500, but more than 300.

Keep in mind that we still have the square contest going on, and if any of you want to have a shot at winning it, you'll probably have to make a lot of squares. So that should help us get more items, for those of you who choose to participate.

Now for specific charity goals:

First, we could set a square goal, since y'all are making squares. The square contest right now has 173 squares, I think. Right, funfairiegirl? Well I'd like y'all to have 220 350 squares total by the end of it. Between all of you competing, I bet you can do it.

warm up winchester is looking for 100 items by October 31st. Let's get them 20 items, so they can be at 1/5 of their goal by the end of the month, just from us.

And then I think we should have a non-knitting/crocheting goal. Maybe we can have a Homespun Helpers bake sale for The Great American Bake Sale, though we're in different locations, and transporting food isn't always so easy/feasible...Does anyone have ideas for a baking goal? Or any other media that aren't as well represented here?

Speaking of underrepresented media, I was thinking that maybe we can try to craft stuff outside of our normal media. Like knitters could crochet, or bake. Jewelers can make cards. Etc. This might be a bit crazy; I'm just putting it out there.

That's all I have to say for now. Good luck everyone! And feel free to comment with any ideas for other goals.

We have a winner

Wow - all I can say is WOW. We have 208 total squares finished since the start of this contest (of course Jorie and I are not counting ourselves, but we are working on some too.)

Anyway - We have a winner.

jpettibone with 43 has won a beautiful skein of Cherry tree Hill yarn donated by Priscilla.

A list of the contenders:
jepttibone - 43
treehugger 06 - 37
doclegs - 31
craftyone - 16
littleknittinkitten - 14
gypsyamaranta - 13
Priscilla - 13
Venka - 6
nenhnaa - 5
zipper208 - 3
zortified - 2

If you are not listed above it is because you didn't tag your post and I couldn't find it easily. If your total is not correct or missing, please email the gamil account with your total, the date of post and that you have added the tags and I will make sure you are counted toward the final contest counts.

congrats and it isn't too late to get in the lead. I mean squares are fast, fun and go to a good cause.

(and yes, I redid this post from the LJ one - blogger is being a pain and wouldn't let me post it over OR edit it to make it bloggerific happy - just in case you are wondering)

June Summary

June"s finished objects: 517
Total in 2007 so far: 1234

funfairiegirl issued a challenge: that we finish 1200 items by the end of June.

And we totally did. Here"s how.

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afghans for Afghans are getting a pair of socks from Priscilla.

The American Cancer Society received nine hats from bunny_pwns_you.

Blankets for the Gulf got a blanket from doclegs and one blanket from Craftyone.

A breast cancer support group got three scarves from Craftyone

Charmed Knits got a hat from kat_denton.

Chicago"s Crafty Angels got five baby bibs from theonlyevidence.

A Domestic Abuse Center received 25 pottery angels (Angels of Hope) from sweetcheri"s Mother.

The Dulaan Project got three hats from death_by_yarn, two hats from snoopingmother"s daughter, seven hats and a child"s vest from twotone, a variety of hats, gloves, and scarves numbering 12 from media_res and a friend, six adult and two baby hats from eowyn_ulysses and eight assorted items from zortified, a hat from akkasha and 12 hats, two scarves and a baby sweater from desertempress.

Hesed House got three hats from laughlovelive.

The Hokie"s blanket project got four squares from joriejc2.

Local animal shelters got six blankets from Venka.

A local hospital is getting four premie hats from ndjen04.

Love Quilts got a pink cross stitched square from smiles_sweetly.

The Lowell Wish Project is getting a blanket from _fakewings_

funfairiegirl"s auction for Lupus Research is getting 25 pieces of jewellery (11 + 14) from elsieamelie.

A mental health charity auction received two hats and a blanket from doclegs.

The National World War II Museum received three scarves from elsieamelie.

Project Bag O" Sunshine got 46 bags (6 + 1 + 1+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 10 + 14 + 2 + 2 + 1 +4 + 1 + 1) from jellybellygirl, treehugger06, snoopingmother, joriejc2, mmeblue.

Porject Hokie Hope got two squares from zortified.

Project Night Night got two blankets from ascelinne who also contributed food to the potluck fundraiser for the project.

Rebuilding Greensburg got 54 squares. In the first half of the month, 23 squares were completed (10 + 12 + 1) from gypsyamaranta, snoopingmother and cymbelline. After the square contest started, another 31 were made (3 + 3 + 13 + 9 + 13 + 3 + 10) by Priscilla, Craftyone, snoopingmother, doclegs and caboosey.

The Red Scarf Project got four scarves from eowyn_ulysses back in January.

Share a Square got six squares from Priscilla

Warming Families are getting 14 squares from Little Knittin Kitten.

Warm Up America got 180 squares. WuA suggests 49 squares for a full size blanket, which means we"ve produced almost enough for 4 blankets this month! 40 of these (5 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 20) from treehugger06 and eowyn_ulysses, crazigriffen, Mystery Singapore Kitten and funfairiegirl and Christi aren"t part of the square contest. The square contest generated the other 148 (8 + 13 + 6 + 5 + 3 + 6 + 16 + 15 + 43 + 13 + 12) from doclegs, gypsyamaranta, treehugger06, nehnhaa, , Venka, treehugger06, jpettibone, Craftyone.
crazigriffen also finished another blanket.

Also, lindsoriah made two blankets.

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We"re having a square making challenge put together by funfairiegirl and joriejc2. Deadline is 11:59 pm EST on July 16.

We hit 1000 items! And 1200!

The orignal Crafting for a Cause group has asked us to change our name. Lots of discusion about a new name can be seen here, here and here and here. Eventually the name Homespun Helpers was chosen.

More Crafting for Chairty Opportunities:

• eleme shares an urgent request for prayer shawls for children which are needed in July.


• Craftyone is running Project overwhelm Patty with Scarves - a project to produce lots and lots of fun scarves for breast cancer sufferers at The Alexian Brother"s Medical Centre


• leftygirl02 talks about making teddy bears to be given by the fire brigade to children involved in fires, and suggests the following links Gainsville Fire Department Care Bear Program and The Teddy Bear Cops Program and annilita mentions the Artists Helping Children Program that does the same in hospitals.


• doclegs points out some charity links.


• joriejc2 wonders if we can run an etsy shop to sell items to raise money for her local women"s shelter near Thanksgiving.


• jpettibone mentions the Pattenworks blanket competition. There"s some discussion of how we could make this a community event. doclegs has the kit and is going to send out skeins to people wanting to take part.


• Priscilla points out Project Share a Square aiming to collect 6x6" granny squares to make afghans for children suffering from cancer at Camp Sanguinity.


• laughlovelive reccomends the crochetlist on yahoo who have a charity of the month.


• Any one wanting to make items for for tornado victims in Manitoba should see this post in 20sknitters


• The Red Scarf Project is accepting scarves again. The guidelines have changed so do check them out if you"re going to donate.


• Priscilla points out Gracious Parcels- a project making afghans to give to people moving into Habitat for Humanity homes.


• Crocheters may be interested in Krochet Krystal"s flower square - she"ll send you the pattern if you make one and send it to her to be made into blankets for charity.


• russia_moore aked for advice on selling a crochet pattern to raise money for the Interpretative Guide program at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. She"s put up a page with the information about the pattern and the program here.


• death_by_yarn has started an effort to help warm the homeless of Winchester, VA. Have a look at her site Warm Up Winc for information.


• And while it isn"t entirely a craft for charity link, it is related: Annie Modesitt"s husband has beel diagnosed with terminal cancer. In an effor to raise money, she"s offering this pattern. Read funfairiegirl"s post about it here.

Questions for the community:

• ugottafriend asks if anyone knows about becoming a non-profit organisation for the charity jewellery store she"s setting up.


• elsieamelie asks what she can do with bits of a poncho that went wrong.


• lindsoriah asks for suggestions for things to make for a charity auction.


• ugottafriend asks about making bears for children


• cacuni wants some input on the website design. Share your thoughs.

Other things our members are doing:

• robin_andersen talks about an auction to raise money for the medical bills of her great nephew.


• ugottafriend has opened a jewellery shop on blujay from which all the proceedes will go to charity.


• mmeblue has designated some items on her shop on etsy as for charity.


• knitmeapony has various crafty items to give away


• project_memes asks what to do with some bookmarks.


• Missmalaprop posts about Desire Nola and explains about her charity spotlighting. Check out her etsy store.

Other Discussions:

• Why we do what we do - a reminder from joriejc2.


• joriejc2 wonders about donating to women"s shelters in memory of those women who die during pregnancy. There"s some discussion here


• The Deadline for Project Bag O"Sunshine Part 1 is 1st July to allow doclegs to give the first batch out on July 4th. The post has all the info needed for contacting doclegs for her address to send stuff. Stuffing for thebag is also appreciated.


• joriejc2 dreams of real life meet ups. See the poll and some discussion.


• Little Knittin" Kitten says that contributors to afghans for Afghans in Toronto can bring their items to Knit Cafe on Queen"s Street by September 25th for shipment.

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January 2007 - 21
February 2007 - 33
March 2007 - 121
April 2007 - 161
May 2007 - 381

And my last act as June mo

I'd like to highlight two very very cool projects that are going on.

Our own lovely death_by_yarn, aka Amy, has started a project called Warm Up Winchester. She has a blog all set up with directions on how you can join. She also has some pretty nifty ideas regarding goals and contests. So please go on over and join her over there. Anything you make there, of course, also counts for here, so you would just be charitizing all over the darned place!

Also, if you visit 25thingsforcharity.blogspot.com, there is a charity developing for children/orphans in Russia, based by a member's first-hand observations there.

Thanks!

we're in the hands of a hobbit!

Alright, everyone. Your mod for July will be:

sen_ichi_rei !!!

The ship is yours, madame. Let us know how to proceed :)