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Great day for Handmade Especially for You!
By Leslye's Blog | September 26, 2019 at 10:51 PM EDT | No Comments

What a day!  Today we shipped 1,860 comfort scarves to 53 shelters for abused women.  We packed the boxes from a veritable mountain of comfort scarves.  Do you see one you made in the pile?  Take a look at the photo of today's shipping in our photo gallery to see if you can find one of yours.  

Handmade’s huge team of volunteers achieved this. 

18 were present today doing the wrapping and shipping work, but many others have been working behind the scenes, all around the US and locally, in their own homes, or at other work days at my house.  You know all the clichés to get this amount of work accomplished: “ It takes a village,” etc. but it really does.  Here’s a list of what members of Handmade’s village do to make sure we have enough comfort scarves to send to shelters for abused women: 

Donate yarn

Measure yarn and fun fur

Wind measured yarn into kits

Knit and crochet kits

Knit and crochet their own yarn

Teach volunteers who don’t know how to knit

Make the gift tags, punch the holes

Open boxes

Cut curling ribbon

Wrap scarves

Put gift tags on scarves, hats and other items

Add fringe, etc. to scarves that need it

Buy shipping boxes

Pack boxes

Do the accounts

Manage the website

Keep the Facebook page up to date

Do the taxes

Come to lunch, contribute food

Come to Michael’s, contribute energy

Donate $$$

Anything else I’ve forgotten (by mistake)

 

The Handmade team is the greatest.  Thank you all. 

Keep up the good work.  We still have a lot to do before the end of the year.  In October, we have a small shipping, only about 500 scarves, but the biggest shipping will be in November.  Our scarves and hats are very popular at holiday parties at the shelters.  So keep your needles clicking.

Thanks in advance. 

Love, 

Leslye

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