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Let's work together on our projects for afghans for Afghans.
It's a knit-along; it's a crochet-along!
Current Campaign
Our 2016 campaign was completed the first week of August 2016. Our wool gifts were successfully transported and distributed by NGO Trust in Education.
Please check our website or join our email list for announcements and updates.
Update August 2017:
Unfortunately, we do not have plans for a new campaign at this time because of hurdles with logistics. We'll do our best to solve, but nothing promising yet. Thank you for participating while we had the opportunity!
THE BASICS
afghans for Afghans is a people-to-people project that knits and crochets wool garments as a practical gesture of friendship and respect for the people of Afghanistan. In partnership with the San Francisco office of the American Friends Service Committee, our project started in late 2001 in response to the war that unfolded after 9/11. This follows a long-time tradition of knitting for others at times of war and crisis. Afghan families still need to know that we care. Join us here for camaraderie, inspiration, and mutual support with projects.
Want to join the discussion?
Send an email to sfmammamia at g mail dot com for permission to post. If you don't get a note back, check your spam folder. The more, the merrier!
Long-time community knitter Elizabeth Durand is our moderator. Be sure to introduce yourself!
Please avoid commercial messages about yarn stores.
Long-time community knitter Elizabeth Durand is our moderator. Be sure to introduce yourself!
LINKS AND LEARN MORE
Contributors
- Afghan Ann
- Ann
- Beth
- Betsey Bee
- Bloo
- Cathy
- Cecilia
- Christine from Maryland
- Christine from Missouri
- Cindy
- Debb
- DeeCee
- Diane H
- Elizabeth D
- EmptyKnits
- Foxy Knitter
- Gwyneth
- Heather
- Isabel
- Jane
- Jean
- Jersey Shore Deb
- Joan
- Joan
- Judy
- Karen B
- Kate A
- Kathy
- Keiko
- Laura
- LeeVC
- Linda S.
- Lisa B.
- LyniHop
- Marcie
- MargoLynn
- Mary T
- Marylib
- MinnesotaMom
- MissCue
- NCVirginia
- Nancy
- Nancy
- Pat
- Reed
- Renee
- Sally
- Sherry Swezey
- Shirley
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Unknown
- andrea
- annie
- carolknits
- cti
- darlene
- gkb
- holly
- inge
- just beth
- knitwitch45
- pldrake
- psknit
- ritikitib
- sabrina
- sfmammamia
- sheila
- sherri
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7 comments:
Oh, Sue...thank goodness someone else is having some problems, too. I thought it was just me. These new fangled technologies!! I've lost several comments to cyberspace. I'm hoping that I catch on pretty soon to either what I'm doing & shouldn't be or what I should be doing and am not because it can be frustrating.
FYI...it's not just here. At work yesterday we tried faxing info to another department 3 times. They ended up just walking down 3 flights to pick it up. Not quite what the IT department had in mind, but the information was needed pronto & cyberspace wasn't cooperating.
Hi Sue,
Yes. It does seem to be more awkward. Ahh...progress.
Reed
Seems that you must select a profile (below) first.
Hi Ann. Yep, I selected my google account. It comes back 'not accepted', so I click 'post comment' again. It comes back 'redirecting' & then a box pops up with my comment asking me to check & approve...which I do. Then the 'comment as' box changes from 'google' to 'Cathy(google) and finally it works. Should I try to put 'Cathy(google)' in the 'comment as' box from the beginning? You're working with a techno-deficient person here, so please bear with me.
It may be a difference in the settings between the old blog and the new one...we tried a setting intended to discourage anonymous commenting, but that may be causing more problems than its worth...I will look into it.
~Teresa
Theresa, I can appreciate discouraging anonymous comments. Some of those I've read on other blogs are so nasty. People can lose their civility when they get to hide behind that 'anonymous' lable.
We'll get the bugs worked out of this issue.
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