Making progress

I contacted ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation) last week, and now I have a local resource for snuggle blankets. I was able to use 1900 yards of not quite pretty yellow yarn to make 6 blankets. I have pulled out a box of acrylic yarn, and will be making some more blankets, squares for Warm Up America and also some Wool Ease squares for Rebuilding Greensburg outreach program. At least I know I can utilize a couple of boxes of yarn that were going to languish for quite some time to come.

I also have to make some progress on chemo caps, as I have yarn for about 10-12 more. I also looked into The Ships Project, since my Dad was a retired seaman (30 years), and served as a merchant marine in WWII, in the South Pacific and with Atlantic convoys. He loved knitted caps, and one of the last things I made him before he passed away was a wool blend cap that he wore to bed every night. So, in his memory, I will be knitting caps for our service men and women. Regardless of how people feel about what's going on, our service personnel need to know that we still care about them.

I'm going to see if I can get at least 6 charity items finished for June. I will update when I have dropped off the snuggle blankets with ARF. I want to get at least two more done before I go.

Happy knitting, everyone!

Venka

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Yay!

i am loving the conversation that is going on about the future name of this community. I think that I probably made a mistake before in recommending the whole contest and poll thing, because I'm not sure people felt as open to talk for fear of offending whomever came up with the various ideas.

Because I reverted the name here (or rather twotone did) and at myspace, we have time to choose a name that will be our identity from here to infinity. I really like the direction that a lot of you are going and I haven't seen a bad idea yet.

Keep in mind, the names need to be entirely available and as funfairiegirl and others pointed out, it should be something easy to remember and easy to type.

This conversation can carry on till the time comes to buy a domain, so keep the ideas flowing. Maybe out of this conversation we will also come to think up new goals and dreams for our group as well.

Mostly...I just want to make sure we keep doing what we do best, which is making stuff for people who need it. :)

Blanket for the Gulf Child - Done

Done! The colors aren't quite true on the pictures, but I used LionBrand homespun Florida Key Lime, Covered Bridge and Colonial (or something like that). It's a shell stitch with a huge crochet needle. About 3 1/2 ft. wide and a tiny bit over 5 ft long -- hope he likes it. :)

Closeup of the rows...



A long shot.... total of 9 skiens.

the name game, continued

Thanks, everyone, for sending out your thoughts on alternative names. In order to avoid the confusion and I fear some of the hurt feelings that occurred the last time we went through this, I am going to be a little more heavy-handed in how we proceed. Make no mistake though, I LOVED everyone's ideas, and perhaps as the website develops we could get cacunai and anyone helping her to weave in these other ideas.

With that said, I would like to recommend that we research the following two names:

CraftPurposefully
ConscientiousCrafts

I feel that these two names come closest to what we were trying to go after with Crafting for a Cause, and they are close enough so that hopefully people wouldn't be too horribly confused when we change our name...again...

Again, I love all of the ideas that were submitted and I am sure we will be able to use them as page headers, project names, or something else.

cacunai and whomever might be helping you, keep us posted on those 2 name options and let us know what is available.

Thanks again, everybody!

Name Game

Hello everyone,

Here at blogspot, I think you know that the original group named Crafting for a Cause has contacted us, asking us to change our name immediately because their name is registered. I have explained that we chose this name before knowing of their group, but both the owner and co-owner are really insisting that we address this as soon as possible.

I believe the name that cacunai recommended was "Craft Purposefully," which she was willing to buy for our website domain name.

If this name is satisfactory to everyone, please let me know.

In the meantime, I am going to change our lj name back to what the username is, and I will change our myspace site back to 3000 in 2007.

funfairiegirl, I don't know what we can do about blogspot. If the name can't be changed, let's do what they asked and please put a disclaimer that we are not affiliated with the REAL Crafting for a Cause.

Any other name suggestions are welcome, but obviously we are going to go through a much more thorough name-research process this time around. Once we settle on a new name for this group, I do not want it to change again. We are not going to be able to get the word out about us or get people to take us seriously if we have to change our name every three months.

Thanks!

Finally!

I sat down to upload a BUNCH of pictures to our myspace page. Once again, the only person from whom I've heard that definitely does not want items posted to myspace is
"twotone". If you have changed your mind about that, please let me know. I didn't post EVERY FO from May, but there's a lot up now. Myspace changed the method on how to upload pictures and it is much easier now, so I don't really have any more excuses. I must keep it updated regularly :)

Also, Robyn, if you see this..."doclegs" is just about done with the child's blanket for Blankets for the Gulf and I have given her the address. If you send your big afghan to her (if you still want to do that) or if you two work something out, both blankets could be sent at the same time. Let us know 'sup :)

Blanket for the Gulf -- Update and Question

I'm almost finished with the blanket request.... Robyn, I don't know how to contact you and your comment doesn't link to your email address. Can you contact me so we can coordinate?

Thanks!

Will post pictures in a few days. :)