Afghans for Angels Info and Addresses

Hi folks....

Since March is our Afghans for Angels time, just some more information about the charity. It is a group that provides hand-made afghans for families who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or infant death.

They have not updated their website in some time, but here is the link: http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/AforApage2/

This charity is near and dear to my heart, as I have had three miscarriages myself in the last year and a half, and had nothing to hold onto after I lost my children. When I lost my first baby, I joined a support group for women who were due in June of that year, and I made blankets in honor of each and every one of their babies. It was such a healing experience for me, I kept doing it and asked this group to join in. The response was overwhelming, and helped me move through my grief.

The blankets are small... they can be as small as 12 inches by 12 inches, or as large as 2 ft x 2 ft. Please realize that these are blankets for families who are grieving -- so they should be in soft baby colors.

I will be collecting blankets to send out, so you can send them directly to me or to one of the chapters. Since the website is outdated, some of the chapter links are gone.

Here are two addresses of people who I know are actively collecting:

Afghans for Angels
171 Gramlingtown Rd.
South Fork, PA 15956

HeartFelt Angels
Elizabeth Parsons, Founder
P.O. Box 2634
Winchester, VA 22604

I will be sending my box of blankets to the lady in VA since I sent our first large box of 40(ish) to the group in PA.

baby blanket.

baby blanket.
Originally uploaded by craftyone77

I haven't posted this yet, and I keep meaning to post it here and send it to Afghans For Angels. I also have another blanket I wanted to send, but it's not pastel (it's more of a teal blue), but I'm going to send it as well.

For now, though, here's this one to add to both my personal total and to the blankets going to Afghans For Angels.

Also? Can someone give me the address to send this? I looked on their site, and they don't have a chapter here in Nebraska, and I'm not sure if we're sending them to one specific location or not. Let me know so I can get the blankets sent out!

Froggie and Duckie Blankie

Another no-sew blanket to give to Afghans for Angels.

1 More for Afghans for Angels

I am posting this blanket separately because I believe that it will count for the Personal Achievement contest. I had started it I believe in February, but I did the bulk of the knitting on it in May, and I finished it on June 1st. (If it doesn't count because it was started earlier, please let me know and I will take the tag off.)
I used about half of a skein of Lion Brand Pound of Love and the Lion Brand pattern for a diagonal baby blanket. It is approximately 24" square.

(I also have a box of items for HMPCWD to send out this week, but I need an address to send them to. Margietheladybug, I will message you on Ravelry for your address. Thanks!)

3 Blankets for Afghans for Angels

Here are 3 full sized baby blankets that I am going to donate to Afghans for Angels.
These will not count for the personal achievement award, because I finished all 3 long before May 2008. I would like to make a few more smaller blankets to fill up the box, and then I thought I would just send them directly to the Iowa address.

Reminders from the Reminder Store

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having pleasant, introspective, extroverted holiday weekends. Here where I live, we've actually had three glorious weather days in a row, so everyone is in a little bit of shock. Hopefully the weather will continue in this mode and our shock will wear off :)

So, yes. Reminders and updates and what-not.

Regional Summer Contest starts tomorrow. Remember, any items you post can count towards the regional contest as well as the Personal Achievement Contest . Jezebel will count items in a fair fashion, so making 2,000 crocheted bookworms, while wonderful, won't necessarily earn your team 2,000 points :) If you want me to create tags for your respective teams, just let me know. In the meantime, tag your entries "regional summer contest" or some such.

Personal Achievement Contest continues until December, so make sure, if you are playing, that you tag your entries appropriately. You are competing for some glorious knitting (or crocheting) gift baskets.

Preemie hat contest run by Robyn is going till June 1, although I've asked if she could extend the deadline a bit. Send all preemie hats to her and you could win a $50 Amazon gift card!

Local HMPCWD Drive: I'm still collecting stuff for the local women's shelter in honor of my uncle for my dad's birthday. I did a lot of hand washing this weekend and am almost all caught up! I'll be accepting things probably up to June 10....let me know if/when you send stuff if it's already been washed and blocked, because at this point, if I don't have to wash it.......I won't :)

Afghans for Angels goal is going to be extended until July 1. Although you all did a marvelous job this month and our count is 14 afghans thus far (or 11 if Ninja says we absolutely should not count her three), 50 was a pretty ridiculous goal for me to set, in retrospect. So, we will have another whole month to get to that big 50. Then it will be too hot to even look at blankets :)

I would like to point out to everyone that we are already at 1,480 items or so, which is awesomely close to our halfway marker of 2,000 items. Now that is cause for joy during this somber holiday. Y'all rock. Let me just say it again!

Final Batch Perhaps

Three more going towards team Afghans for Angels. Will be doing my best to finish what I can, but this may be it.

Afghans for Angels Blankets

Am having trouble posting at LiveJournal, so hopefully this works. At the start of the week I began feeling some soreness in my wrist, so decided to back off my knitting projects.

I was really bummed about not being able to make anything, until I read about how to make no sew blankets and gave it a try. They were fairly simple to make; each took several hours though, because I'm slow. :P

My first attempt. It's about 20 inches by 22 inches in size.

My second attempt. This one is 12 by 12 inches.

Loved this frog and duck fabric when I first saw it. The back side is yellow. The blanket measures about 22 by 22 inches.

Catching Up

It dawned on me that I failed to post these pictures here on Blogger as well as over at Livejournal. So please don't count these twice; am just catching up. Blankets for Team Afghans for Angels.