Perfect timing

One of our knitters, Barbara, had a chance meet-up with a former colleague. She was introduced to her 2 week old newborn baby girl at the place we meet to knit. Barbara had just finished knitting this purple hat. She gave it to her friend who immediately put it on her baby. She later sent a picture of the little girl wearing the hat in a newborn photo shoot!

Easter Delivery

Peggy delivered 88 hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek  (20 of which will be donated to Kaiser Antioch).  The nurses were "jumping with joy"  when they discovered that the Easter born babies plus the rest of the babies born this week would have an adorable hat to wear.  One of the nurses immediately dug through the bag of donations and retrieved 5 of them to display at the nurses' counter.

Thank you Karing Knitters for your ongoing contributions!

Another Hat Delivery

Peggy, one of the Karing Knitters, delivered 78 hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek on February 23rd.  As usual the nurses were thrilled to receive them. The KK group decided since the Antioch  nurses appreciated the baby hats that were delivered to them last month so much, that we would give them more hats in the future. Of the 78 hats that we delivered today, Antioch received 25. Since March is St. Patrick's Day, Jan made some beautiful themed hats to include in this delivery. We know that all of the newborns will appreciate and enjoy the hats.

An outfit for Alyssa

3 month old Alyssa is modeling a sweater set that Peggy, one of the Karing Knitters knitted for her..so cute!

Peggy delivered 18 Valentine ♥ themed hats and 25 general hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek on February 1, 2017. The nurses were overly excited because they had run out of hats to give to the babies quite a while ago. They absolutely loved that there were some Valentine ♥ themed hats and told me that they would go to good use. Thank you Karing Knitters for your generous contributions. The nurses reiterated that the patients love the hats that we make.

New grandson for Barbara and hats for Kaiser Antioch

Barbara's daughter just delivered a baby at Kaiser Antioch on 1/30/17. Peggy, Barbara's sister and proud "Grauntie", suggested to her that we donate some of the baby hats we've knitted/loomed and she agreed that it was a great idea.  We donated 25 hats, 13 of which were Valentine themed and the rest were general hats.  The nurses were thrilled because they receive very few hat donations.  Antioch Kaiser delivers 125-135 babies monthly while Kaiser Walnut Creek delivers 350 babies monthly...big difference! Also, pictured below is baby Dax and older brother Blake wearing matching hats knitted by Auntie Peggy

On December 20, 2016, seven regular members of the "Karing Knitters" group, Peggy Fleming, Barbara Heimowitz, Harriet Skelly, Jan Barnes, Lina Terferi, Rita Weikal, and Debbie Schriber, took BART to San Francisco and donated 83 scarves and 138 hats to St. Anthony's.  This was our 5th year knitting scarves and hats for the homeless living in San Francisco.

 The "Karing Knitters" group began 6 years ago with three members from Danville and two members living in Castro Valley.  The group has grown and changed over the years and we now have two groups of knitters who meet twice monthly in Danville and in Castro Valley.  A huge thanks go to the eleven regular members, Phyllis Clark, Melanie Gutterson, Marcelle Roise, and Ann Cygielman and the knitters mentioned above plus some knitters from the Alamo Women's Club; Susan Klein, Kathy Berger, Annette Cohn, Sandi McKae, plus friends of friends in the knitting groups who donate occasionally or one time only: Ruth Yu, Judy Ginsburg, Maria Salcedo, Jean Yang.