Teresa (who is also our volunteer blog admin) is showing off Kathy's super mittens with the ribbing at the wrist and then longer arms for extra warmth (called gauntlets?) --
Louise in Orange, CA, sent us a rainbow of luxuriously ribbed baby hats --
Christy in the Pacific NW dropped off a box of multi-flavored Frango chocolates when she was in town. The chocolates are for the hard-working Basement volunteers, and the multi-flavored wool socks are for cold feet in Afghanistan. We promise not to mix up who gets what --
Laura, Antje, and Annette were also volunteering in the AFSC Basement yesterday. We did leave some Frangos for the next packing session.
Thank you to all who have sent in packages of wool socks, hats, and mittens for 7 years to adult and socks and hats for the Baby Shower. Everything we have received is first-class and will be deeply valued by the recipients in the winter.
As of yesterday, for the Baby Shower, we have about 100 pairs of wool baby socks and 40 wool baby hats. Based on our past experiences, we estimated that we could offer thousands of socks and items to the Malalai Women's Maternity hospital in Kabul. They deliver about 85 babies every day.
Please let your fiber friends -- online and off -- know about the need for wool socks and hats for babies so we can deliver!
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1 comment:
How important is it to wash and block baby hats and socks? I'm thinking that with the deadline so near, it might speed things up to send them as they come off the needles rather than wait 2 days for them to dry. I'm not a terribly experienced knitter, so I'd like to know what you think.
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