Valentine Delivery

Peggy went solo on 2/10/14 to deliver 58 baby hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek.  Twenty-four of the hats had Valentine designs.  There seemed to be an abundance of nurses at the desk when Peggy arrived and they were so thrilled with the donation.  One of the regular nurses said, "yah!  the hat lady is here".  (We are the only group that knits baby hats for the newborns).  The nurses all discussed which babies were being born, including a set of twin girls, who were given the white hats with red hearts on them.  All of the nurses huddled over the bag of hats to select just the perfect hat for "their" baby. The nurses liked the idea of our making two or more of the same design since they have many multiple births.

Delivery to St Anthony's



at Bart on our way to St Anthony's

in a room surrounded by 5000 gift bags

Five of us, 3 Karing Knitters from Castro Valley and 2 from Danville, delivered a total of 44 hats and 93 scarves to St. Anthony's for the homeless in
San Francisco.  The Staff was very appreciative and thankful for our donation and showed us where the scarves and hats were packaged together with toiletries in bags to be given to the homeless at Christmas time. We were also shown the dining room where 2,500 meals are served daily. It's always heartwarming when staff and clients are thankful for donations.






 

Baby hats for Kaiser Hospital

On 11/26/13 we delivered 65 baby hats to the Kaiser Maternity Ward and the nurses were thrilled to receive them.  It was a fun delivery for us partly because both Barbara and Peggy knew two new Moms who had just delivered their babies and were in the recovery section of the maternity ward.  Barbara gave her Mom friend a baby hat and spoke with her for a few minutes and Peggy gave the nurse a hat to bring to the Mom she knew. We celebrated our donation by eating lunch at the Cheesecake Factory afterwards.
 

Jean, our Vacaville Karing Knitter, has generously knitted hats for us over the past three years.  Here she is displaying some of the six Christmas hats that were delivered to Kaiser Walnut Creek.

Thank you Jean!

thank you Samantha

So nice of one of our crafters to donate 4 crocheted baby hats and 2 blankets to Kaiser Hospital Walnut Creek.

Thank you Samantha.

Hat Delivery to Kaiser

 

TODAY was the BEST hat delivery I think we've had so far.  We arrived at the Maternity Ward at the exact right time as most of the nurses were at the front desk and all we're so excited to look through the bag of 43 hats we gave them.  One of the nurses said that her patient just had twins, a boy and a girl and immediately selected two matching hats, and two of the other nurses picked hats for their patients.  Anne asked if the Moms appreciated the hats and there was a resounding YES from all of the nurses.  We are apparently the only group that donates hats so the nurses are thrilled when we arrive.

On a recent tour of the UK, our fearless leader Peggy had lots of fun visiting various yarn shops. Here she shares her wonderful finds.

Cambridge, England

 



Waterford, Ireland
 







Dublin, Ireland



  



 

thank you Durango Yarn

During a long train/bus tour or Colorado (a beautiful state) I was working on scarves for Christmas at St Anthony's and ran out of yarn - heaven forbid. When our train arrived in Durango a wonderful site appeared - Durango Yarn.  It is a wonderful shop with a great variety of yarns at reasonable prices. 

 So if you are ever in Durango look for the shop.  It really is a - not to miss shop.
Jan B