Look! An address!

This year one of our members has graciously donated a post office box to receive Made by Hand parcels.  The address is on our just updated contact page.

Item #5

This little red knitty kitty was a project I had unfinished, so I got it all put together to begin a fleet of knitty kitties to be given to little girls and boys who will love them

Made By Hand Overall Status:

5 / 200 (2.5%)

Items #1-4

Last summer I went to a hotel and I left my bathing suit there… wait, be patient, this IS a Made by Hand story.  Really.

So anyway, I left my bathing suit at the hotel, but I remembered in time to call them and go back and get it.  They put it in a plastic bag with a little label saying “left behind” and I grabbed that, tossed it into my van, and drove back home.  And never saw the bathing suit again.  I mean, I searched for it, everywhere.  Cleaned out my van.  Overturned the house.  But the thing was nowhere to be seen.

While at the same hotel, a friend of mine from PA had given me some Made by Hand items.  I dutifully brought them out at our next knitting meeting here, and we all oohed and ahhhed over them.  My duty discharged by handing them to kisknit, I forgot about them.

You’ve probably already figured out how these stories merge.

I was going through my stash, entering it on Ravelry, when I found a bag in the corner that wasn’t yarn.  Oh …. it was a bag of Made by Hand items!  Guilt!  Guilt!  They had somehow gotten pushed back into my stash after knitting and never donated last year.  So of course, they are being added to the things for this year (and I have apologized PROFUSELY to my friend in PA).

I opened up the bag so I could take pictures, and lo and behold, on top of all the other neat ziploc bags and labels… there was the plastic bag with my bathing suit in it.  Which was pretty much the last place I ever expected to find it!

2009 drive is beginning

Yes, we skipped a year.  But we are starting up now, for a new charity drive which will be finishing up in October 2009.  The FAQ and all associated pages will be updated shortly, but right now I’m just so excited to be getting going that I had to post something Right Now.

This year we will again be knitting, crocheting, sewing, etc. for the local Domestic Violence shelters.  This means we would love donations of all manner of handmade items, from socks to hats & mittens, to sweaters, to blankets, to toys (yes toys!).  We have a year to collect items, so let’s set a goal of 200 items in hand by October 31, 2009!

One new addition to the Made by Hand organizational family this year is a brand new group on Ravelry.  If you have a Ravelry account, please look us up (the group is Made by Hand, and if you have trouble finding it, find me (I’m tryslora there as well) and it’s under my list of groups) and join in the fun there too.

I’m so very excited about this year’s project, and I can’t wait to get started.  Some of us have already started working, before the project was set, so I’ll have some status updates (and a pic!) later today.