Share a Square

We have almost met our goal. Several folks are stitching madly to get the last of the afghans put together, and I can’t thank them enough for their hard work. It isn’t an easy task!

We’ve also raised enough money so far to send two kids to camp. If you feel like giving up a latte, click the button on the sidebar to donate $5, $10, $15 to the fund. I’m hoping that we will be able to pay for all the children, but I don’t know if that will happen.

Bags are still needed, if you are inclined to make one. Contact Barbara or Sherry to let them know.

Here are some more squares that have been received (actually last month, but I’ve been at sixes and sevens…I apologize). Many thanks to the fine ladies who crocheted these:

Reiko in Japan

Pat W. in Wisconsin

Kanako in Japan

J. Brock in Georgia

I posted today at This Eclectic Life about raising money to sponsor the children at Camp Sanguinity. I’ve started a charitable fund, and would love any help you can give!

We have a friend battling leukemia. He was the young man who received our first afghan. He’s in the hospital now preparing for a bone marrow transplant. You might want to visit and send him good wishes.
Taten, buddy, I sure do!
Here is his blog: Young Warrior

We are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of this banquet…

Rebecca Harding Davis

Y’all I’ve been antsy to get to this stage. We have 100 afghans showing on the afghan gallery! Whoot! Thanks to everyone for the help you have given. We are in the home stretch.

Camille S and Donna N in Illinois have been working hard. Not just on piecing afghans for Camp Sanguinity, but for some of the “extra afghans” we will give.

Take a look.

I’ll be traveling the next two weeks, but I’ll be working on Share A Square in hotel rooms at night.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.Harold Kushner

Though I have been quiet lately, that doesn’t mean I’m not working on the project! We ALL have been. More than 30 afghans are being stitched right now. I put together two last week (one was rimmed for me by Sheila B., and one by Donna N.). I have three afghans that Mo rimmed for me, and one that Tracey J. rimmed. I am in the process of arranging a day at my local coffee house to get local volunteers to help stitch them together.

At this point, I have 95 afghans here at the house. They are finished and packaged. I don’t have all the pictures on the afghan gallery.

I took the advice of Deborah Starobin-Armstrong, who coordinates The Handmade Afghan Project, and put the afghans in clear plastic bags tied with lots of ribbons.

Over the next couple of weeks, I hope to tell you about some “spin-off” programs that have begun AND tell you more about the bag project. At This Eclectic Life, I showed a medicine bag that I intended to put together. It’s finished and I’m teaching my husband how to sew so we can make more. I’ll post about it soon.

Squares are still coming in (and I promise not to waste them), but we don’t need any more for the current project. I still have a few more pictures to take. thanks to the following folks:

Betty in New York:

Jan H. in Aurora, Illinois

Shirley in Kansas City, MO

Toyoma in Japan

Nobue in Japan