Just something Neat!!

So how cool is this??  Halos of Hope's Facebook page has the picture of our hats as their header!  Isn't that neat?

http://www.facebook.com/halosofhope

Also, they were kind enough to send out a thank you to us on their website.  We are on their home page and if you click the link, they have shared a link to our blog here so others can see all the updates and progress as our hat drive went on.

http://www.halosofhope.org/

Anyway, I hope everyone is have a wonderful Holiday Season!!  See you all in January!!
Thanks,
Kristina

SMC in the Frederick News Post

Hey Everyone!
The Frederick News Post put our picture in the paper with a blurb about our 700 hats.  Here's an image of it from the Community News Section if you didn't get Sunday's edition.

Facebook Page

Hello everyone!
So I was thinking of another, easier way to keep you guys informed and up-to-date and I decided to start a South Mountain Crocheters Facebook page.  I figure this would be an easier way to share projects and updates.  Feel free to post messages and share pictures of your projects.  This will be a great place to post questions and information on events.  If you have a facebook id look us up.  Just type South Mountain Crocheters in the search field and we should pop right up!  I have placed some photos and a couple of updates on there.  I hope you enjoy!
Kristina

YOU DID IT SMC!!!!

I am thrilled to report that at Tuesday night's meeting our grand total for our hat drive was . . . . . . wait for it . . . .  drum roll please . . . . .  . 700 HATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are all amazing!!!  I want to send out a special thank you to Colonial Jewelers, Uno's, Two Rivers Yarns, the Frederick and the Brunswick Senior Centers, and our friends in Laurel MD that made hats for us.  And I want to say THANK YOU to all of you, the members of SMC.  You all made my crazy goal of 500 handmade hats a reality and blew me away with your generosity and willingness to go above and beyond.  Here are a few pictures from Tuesday and our new Goal Chart.

The hats I counted out Monday night before the meeting.  There are 559 hats here.

 A close up of the pile of hats at Wegman's with the numbers climbing!

Those members who were able to go standing behind all of our hats.

A very proud club president with two large grocery carts filled with bags of hats!!

SOOO Close!!!!

Here's an update on our Hat Drive.  I have made the rounds at some of our drop off locations.  We have another 52 Hats! 
 

Also I heard from Two Rivers Yarns today and she said that the Brunswick Senior Center has been making hats for us and estimate they have close to 100 hats to donate.  She doesn't have them yet but as soon as they drop them off I will go get them and let you know what we got.  We are so unbelievably close!! We are at 390 right now!  If the Brunswick group has 100 hats we will be within 10 of our goal.

At our October meeting I am going to bring some thank you cards.  I will have them available for everyone to sign and I will be sending a group picture with each card to the places that helped us collect hats and also made hats for us. 

And the Hats just keep on comin'!!!!

I am so utterly impressed!  Another 105 hats were turned in last night at the guild meeting.  You guys are all amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to send out a special congratulations to our two raffle winners Jennifer Graham and Evelyn Rector.  CONGRATULATIONS!  We hope you enjoy your prizes!

We are SOOO close to our goal!  We only have 162 hats to go to meet out goal.  I will be accepting hats from out drop off locations through the 19th.  We also have a contributors from a group in Laurel who are donating.  There are even some of our members who want to continue making some hats to turn in in October.  At our October meeting I will be bringing all the hats in to photograph with the group.  I thank each and everyone one of you for helping to make this event so successful!!!!

Hats!!!

I can't wait for Tuesday meeting to see all of the wonderful hats you guys have made!  I made another run around to some of the pick up locations and we have another 38 hats!  I also had the opportunity to finish putting together the baskets for our raffle!  We had so much stuff I decided to make 2 baskets!  Below is a picture of them ready to be given away!  I hope everyone has a chance to join us for our 2 year anniversary meeting.  See you all there!

Hooray for More Hats!!

I have received word from Sandy that she picked up another 19 hats at Two Rivers Yarns!  We are just 5 short of hitting 200!!  Keep them coming everyone!

Another UPDATE

I had the opportunity to go around and check some of the other drop off locations this weekend.  We received 20 hats from Two Rivers Yarns, 9 more were dropped off at Colonial Jewelers, and another 3 were dropped off at Uno's!  That's a total of another 32 hats!!  We are up to 176!  Is that exciting or what???  I am going to check our locations again on the 22nd just before our next meeting unless I get a call to come get some more :)  Happy Crocheting!!

Hat Drive Update!!

Hello Everyone!
I hope your September has had an amazing start!  I am so excited to let you all know that the Frederick Senior Center called me today to say they filled our box!!  I went by to pickup the hats and they have donated 32 hats!!  That brings us to 144 hats in less than a month and a half!!!  Thank you to the ladies at the Senior Center for your generosity and for all the wonderful hats.  Rumor has it they are working on more so I will let you guys know what I hear.  I will also be going by our other 3 drop off locations this weekend so look forward to another update soon!!

August Meeting

All I can say is "WOW!!"  I am so excited to see how successful our Hat Drive is so far.  The members of SMC turned in 112 hats!!!  That is amazing!

I cannot wait to see what happens in Sept!  I will post again once I have received some of the hats from our drop offs.  I know we have hats at Two Rivers Yarns and I look forward to getting even more hats a the other three locations (Colonial Jewelers, Uno's, and The Frederick Senior Center). Thank you again to each and every member who is helping to make the Hat Drive a success!!!

Kristina

July Meeting

Thank you to everyone who came out for our July meeting!  We kicked off our first charity event.  The "2012 Hat Drive" to benefit Halos of Hope.  We have set a goal of 500 hats to donate to Halos of Hope.  If you are curious to know a little more about the organization and their goals you can check out the website here:  Halos of Hope.

As an added incentive, for those who come to the guild meetings in Aug/Sept and bring finished hats, you will receive a raffle ticket.  In Sept, at our 2 year anniversary meeting I will do a drawing and the winner will receive a really nice basket with crochet stuff and all kinds of other goodies.  So get to crocheting those hats, the more you finish the more tickets you get and the better chance you have to win!

I have also placed drop off boxes at four businesses who have been gracious enough to let us.  This way we can encourage other members in the community to make hats and contribute.  These are the Frederick Senior Center and:

I also have a dedicated page now on the website for folks to get more info. You can see it on the menu bar above.  I hope everyone has a great August and I can't wait to see all the fantastic hats!!

Kristina

June Meeting

Tis that time again for the crocheters to come out to play :)


Thank you to everyone who took the reigns and made sure the meeting proceeded without a hitch.  The Square-a-Month Blanket is finished . . . . in theory :)  I know that many of you are still working on squares and some of you are still new and only have a few patterns.  Later this afternoon all of the square patterns will be listed on our website for you to work on at any time.  Tonights meeting will focus on how to turn all of those great squares into an afghan.  There are many different techniques and I will be passing out some good resources and we will have some demonstrations from members.  Feel free to continue to work on squares or bring projects you are working on.

HAT DRIVE!

 We are going to begin passing out patterns for our hat drive next month.  I have not had too much luck with finding locations willing to let me put up a donation box so if you know some local business who may be willing to let us, let me know :)  I still have several places to check.  I am also going to bring some flyers to the next meeting if you know of any places you can post to encourage folks to donate hats.

Hope to see everyone tonight.  6-8pm as usual at the Wegmans!

See ya later, Kristina

March meeting and Blog makeover

Hello everyone!
Sorry to be late to adding this blog entry.  First I want to say thank you so much to all of the new folks who showed up for our March meeting.  We were out-numbered by new comers.  An impromptu class on a granny square broke out during the meeting and we had an absolute ball.  I hope we have many returning for April's meeting (which will be tomorrow by the way).

A special thank you to Sandy Gold who allowed me to borrow her completed afghan to photograph.  I used one of my pictures to create the new header for our blog.  I think it gives us a fresh new look and I love the colors of the blanket against the spring flowers.

Also special thank you to those who volunteered at our last meeting to help make hats.  This summer we will be hosting a hat drive and these volunteers are making samples of the hat patterns so you can see the finished products. 

I am looking forward to seeing everyone for our April meeting!
Happy Crocheting.

SMC February Meeting

Hello there everyone!

Thank you so much to everyone who was able to join us for our February meeting.  We had a great turn out and a great time.  The Double-Framed Lace square seemed to be a pattern that everyone enjoyed working on.

I would like to send out a special thank you to Karen Gardner, Graham Cullen, and the Frederick News Post for coming to our February meeting to do a story on us.  I am pleased to say that the article was fantastic and mentioned a number of the members who were present.  I have also received numerous calls from folks in Frederick interested in coming to our meetings because of the article.  I say, the more the merrier!  If you didn't get a chance to see it in the paper (the March 8th edition of the Frederick News Post) here is a link to the article Hooked on Stitches online.

Spring is in the air!  I hope everyone is enjoying crocheting as the warmer weather begins to approach.  I encourage everyone to explore different techniques in crochet.  I have recently began playing around with tapestry crochet and bosnian crochet.  These are simple techniques using stitches and skills most crocheters already know.  I will be bringing samples of both styles to share and hope that if you see an interesting technique or style of crochet that you will share with the group.

See you all at the end of the month.  Our March meeting will be on the 27th.

See you all soon!
Kristina

South Mountain Knitters Ending

The South Mountain Knitters has been dissolved as of 2/9/12.  Thank you for your participation.

SOUTH MOUNTAIN CROCHETERS!!

Well hello all you crocheters out there!!  I apologize for the delays in updating the website!  I had some technical difficulties that have now been resolved.  You will find an updated location on our Where We Meet Page and all of the current squares for our Square-A-Month Crochet along are now posted.

We will be meeting tomorrow (January 31, 2012) at our usual time at Wegmans.  I hope to see everyone there!  Please feel free to bring current projects if you wish to share what you are working on with the group.  This months square is the Lacy Sun.  It has up to 3 yarn colors and uses an I hook.

See you all very soon!!!!!