[Knitting A Conundrum]

Seems the time of the season I start to think about those who will not have good Christmasses, and this will be a worse year than many. Maybe it's because we're supposed to get our first snow this week and I'm feeling the weatehr change...but it seems like a good topic.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

VRWKC Ping!

Once again, I think I lost someone I added to the list...stupid power outs!

[knittnmom]

Guideposts has the sweater project:
http://www.dailyguideposts.com/help/sweater.asp

[hocndoc]

Thanks for reminding me, it's time to bundle up and deliver.

I crochet booties for the local pregnancy crisis center and tiny ones that I give my niece, an RN who works in a Neonatal ICU. For the NICU, I leave the toes open so the nurses can put them over monitors, IV's, etc. Don't you hate to see those poor babies with one naked foot?

I can finish one bootie in 30 to 45 minutes, depending on how much attention I'm paying to it. It gives me something to do while waiting or while the air plane takes off. One good side effect is I always have a present when a baby is born.

And I get to mention the fact that there are pregnancy crisis centers to anyone who asks what I'm making!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Want to knit for the troops?

Check out these patterns from WWII:

http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~ebozak/knit/troop-knitting/bernat/index.html

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There's Caps for Kids

http://craftyarncouncil.com/caps.html

[rirepublican]

This is a project that I have done for the military.

http://geocities.com/helmetliner/

[IN Farm Girl]

Here's one I did at the start of the war:

http://www.patternsonline.com/Features/Patch/Patch.aspx

I think I made nine patches. I hope someone got them who appreciated them.

Has anyone ever heard of the Binky Patrol? They make blankets and give them to firemen, policemen, etc. to give to children who are involved in situations that they have to cover. There is a chapter to the south of me that is very active (Crawfordsville, IN). If I could just rearrange my priorities a little bit, I would love to start a chapter in my community. Maybe even a VRWKNC chapter? That would be fun, too.

Oops, almost forgot: www.binkypatrol.org

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Interweave press has a nice list of charities, too:

http://www.interweave.com/knit/charities.asp

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Some more charity links.

Project Angel Kisses - specializes in stuff for preemies.
http://project-angel-kisses.150m.com/1index.html (warning: music on home page! But it is pausible)

Patterns
http://project-angel-kisses.150m.com/1memberpatterns.html

Project Linus, which like the Binky project makes blankets for the traumatized.
http://www.projectlinus.org/index.shtml

The Ships project to support our troops
http://www.projectlinus.org/index.shtml

[Mercat]

Google prayer shawl. My psycho cat messed up my thingie so I can't link to it. It's basically an easy shawl, afghan to knit or crochet and to share with people who are in hospitals or hospice. I've had such wonderful response from people to whom I've given my simple baby afghans. And I tell them that each stitch is a prayer and IT IS.

[FOG724]

The quilter's guild I used to belong to always made lap quilts and baby quilts for the local hospital, weave and rest homes.

The Grange also has a project where you make hats for the premies.

Does anyone here enter their projects in the local fair? The Grange also has competitions. County fairs were a direct result of Grange competitions.

[A knight without armor]

This is a long Saturday night here. I would like to share this poem because it comforts me and maybe someone else will enjoy it, too.


Let Evening Come
by Jane Kenyon

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don't
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.