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.