Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Holiday Hat deliverys

Peggy was a busy gal delivering hats
for this holiday season:

She delivered 70 baby hats to Kaiser Maternity on Sunday,
Nov. 20th.  There were 11-Thanksgiving, 22-Christmas, 6-Chanukah, 16-girls, and 15-boys.The 6 nurses on duty were totally thrilled to receive the holiday hats and couldn't wait to distribute them.  Peggy was excited to see 3 of our hats on display at the nurses' counter which they'll use for Thanksgiving since they were all orange.  The nurses again reiterated how appreciative the new parents are to receive these keepsakes.

On Nov. 21st, she delivered 26 hats all loomed by Melanie,  for Youth Homes foster kids living in 4 group homes. They were thrilled to receive them and loved the color combinations. Pictured here are two staff members that liked the hats so well that they wanted to each keep one for themselves!!

 Thank you Karing Knitters for your 
continued donations!!

Friday, October 21, 2016

Peggy delivered 82 baby hats, (12 of which were Halloween themed) to Kaiser, Walnut Creek's Maternity Ward.  She was greeted with many thank you's, and lots of oohs and awes!  The nurses immediately started digging through the bag of donations so they could select just the perfect baby hat for the baby they helped deliver. As usual, the nurses and staff were very grateful for our donation..



Monday, September 12, 2016

Baby Hat Delivery for 9/11


Peggy delivered 30 baby hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek on 9/11 which included 3 military fatigue patterns.  As she was walking toward the Labor and Maternity Ward, a young man was following her and she asked if he was a new Dad.  He said, "almost", he and his wife had been at the hospital for 3 days!  I asked him if he'd like to choose a hat for his baby and suggested a military one since it was 9/11 but he opted instead for a light/dark blue hat.  Then I asked a couple (grandparents) who were waiting for their daughter to give birth if they'd like a hat.  Again, they opted for a blue and gold hat since their daughter went to Cal instead of the military one. Once I took the rest of the hats to the nursing station and told the nurses that I had 3 military hats, they were thrilled and said they'd give them to each of the 3 boys who were just born in the last two hours.  

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Happy Birthday to US

It is September and time to pat ourselves on the back again.  To date we have made and donated:
2206 hats (chemo and baby)
508 scarves
and for chemo patients:
67 seat belt cushions
66 drainage bags.
Happy Birthday to Us!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Another Kaiser Delivery

Peggy delivered 52 baby hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek on 8/20/16. As usual, the nurses were very appreciative of our donations especially because they had run out of hats to give to the new infants.

Thank you, Karing Knitters for all of your cute contributions!!!

Monday, July 18, 2016

Another Donation for Epic Care

Barbara donated 12 scarf hats and 4 chemo carseat pillows to Epic Care in Dublin today. One staff member gave her a huge hug! She was so appreciative of all our donations. She even asked for our contact information, which Barbara provided and she also directed them to our blog. The other staff member modeled one of the summer hats. They said we're the only ones donating to them and their patients are very happy to find our donations when they come for treatment! We will donate knitted hats to them when the weather cools down, again.

Thanks to our group, we're really putting smiles on these recipients faces! 

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

More of our Knitters


We have about 10 knitters who regularly knit/loom baby hats for Kaiser Walnut Creek and San Leandro plus Birth Right in Livermore and Concord. Shown here are Susan and Mary Ann who just donated 50 hats for a total of 100 hats that were donated to Kaiser Walnut Creek on July 17, 2016.  Thank you Karing Knitters!