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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