Harmony Hill and more

Barbara and Peggy's step sister volunteers at Harmony Hill which is a retreat center for Stage 4 and end of life Cancer Patients in Union, Washington.  We decided to donate 10 Chemo Hats to them to distribute to their patients.

 

On a late note:

Peggy delivered 8 Red and Green Hats on December 23rd to Kaiser Walnut Creek for the upcoming Christmas babies. As usual, the nurses were most grateful for the donation. They were expecting a set of twins to be delivered Christmas Day and set aside two matching hats for the babies.

 

 

St. Anthony's Foundation Scarving Knitters Drive

 

It was our 3rd year and 3 of our Karing Knitters brought  8 large bags of knitted scarves and hats to St. Anthony's Foundation. The staff  were very appreciative of the 160 knitted pieces. They had already received 1500 scarves, but a lot hadn't been counted yet. We will get the final results in January. It was a fun day and the weather cooperated, too!

A special thanks to Anne's Church group (Prayer Shawl Ministry from the Danville Congregational Church) for knitting and donating 87 of the 160 scarves
we donated to St. Anthony's

 

 

We are thankful

As Thanksgiving approaches, our knitting group is thankful for our latest donation of yarn. We are working on scarves and hats for St. Anthony's Foundation and this extra yarn will be put to good use!

 

 

On Oct. 25th, our knitting group delivered 72 baby hats (20 of which were orange and black and could be used for Halloween or for Giant's fans).  The nurses were very appreciative of our donations.  

We were lucky enough to see a grandmother with her newborn, (only 5 pounds),  grandson, Scott, wheel him in the hallway in his bed. Grandma is a BIG Giant's fan and chose an orange and black hat for him to wear home from the hospital....She thanked us profusely.

More than knitting

 

Our knitting group, took a short break from knitting and donated school supplies to 130 low income kids in Hayward the day before school started. The kids were weighted down with binder paper, pens, pencils, rulers, binders, pencil boxes, glue sticks and other supplies. A local group, FESCO, generously donated new backpacks. Smiles and giggles were abundant!

 

Our Yarn Angel

Our knitting group was so fortunate to receive another generous donation of yarn from an anonymous donor. The colorful pastel sparkle yarns will be perfect for baby hats that we make for newborns, at our local hospitals. 

Peggy has been busy!

Peggy found out that the San Francisco Kaiser Volunteers wanted to learn how to loom so that they could make baby hats for the Maternity Unit. She spent 2 hours teaching 7 volunteers how to loom. They were so excited and appreciative that she taught them and will meet weekly to work on the hats.

Peggy recently visited the Baltic Countries and happened upon the one and only knitting shop, Menita, in Helsinki, Finland.  The yarn prices were very high but the selection was beautiful and irresistible!