Barbara, Peggy, and their Mother, Marianne, took a mini vacation to Santa Rosa on April 17, 2013.  There, in Old Town, they found the cutest knitting shop called Cast Away Yarn.  The shop was filled with beautiful yarn along with adorable hand knitted clothing.  

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Can you believe that Barbara's neighbor was kind enough to donate yet more yarn for our charity knitting! Thank you so much!  Pictured are three more bags full of beautiful yarn that we received on May 7, 2013.

St. Pats & Easter

 

 

On March 12, 2013, Jan, Barbara, and Peggy had fun delivering 13 St. Paddy's Day Hats and 20 Easter/Spring Hats to Kaiser's Maternity Ward.  Most of the nurses were busy monitoring their patients but one of the nurses thanked us and expressed how much the new Moms appreciate receiving our hats.  We had even more fun after the delivery eating lunch outside at the Cheesecake Factory. 

It's almost Valentine's Day, 2013, (February 12, 2013),  and time to deliver fifteen color appropriate hats to Kaiser Walnut Creek.  We know that the babies, families, and nurses will be thrilled to receive our donations.

 

 

We decided to start donating our hats to County Hospitals.  Our first County Delivery of 35 hats including Valentine and St. Patrick's Day was made on February 12, 2013 to Martinez Regional Center.  The volunteer coordinator was very grateful of our donations.  
 

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.