Saturday, March 12, 2011

Basement Family Album:
Packing for Help the Afghan Children

Recognize our faces by now? This is the great gang that sorted and packed the recent collection for Help the Afghan Children. A few of our basement friends were camera shy -- that's OK -- and are not pictured here.
Say hello to ... Emily ...

Kate, Edie (visiting from Massachusetts!), and Jill ...

Annette and Ann B (with her crocheted afghan) ...

Amy in action ... from the SF Opera costume department!

Daisy ...

Annette with her crocheted blanket ...

Chris ...

Jo, connecting pairs of mittens and socks (please remember to tie together next time) ...

Annette (bless you!) brought her son, Ryan, to help us tape the boxes and move the whole collection from the Basement to the street level for pick up. And, Ryan wanted to make sure his mother was hanging with a decent crowd ...

Ryan getting props from Steve, the AFSC building manager ...

Pam and Ann (me) sending off our wool gifts ... our message to the people of Afghanistan loud and clear ...

One more look at the expertly packed boxes before they start their long journey to the other side of the world ...

Thank you, knitters and crocheters for Afghanistan, for taking action when we have the opportunity. You are very generous. I will post numbers to our email list soon.

4 comments:

carolknits said...

Great job!

MargoLynn said...

I know that safety pins are very helpful items, so I use those to pin together mitten and sock pairs instead of just using a piece of yarn. Sometimes I buy big ones to use and other times I use some of the ones that always turn up around here. Just another suggestion. Impressive wall of boxes - as usual!

Kathy said...

I hope someday to come to SF and help out!

Who makes the signs? Do these go in every box?

Afghan Ann said...

Yours truly.

If you are referring to the "Knit With Love" banner and pink paper heart -- this is for the photo that I emailed to Help the Afghan Children.

We'll roll out the red carpet for you, Kathy.

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