Crafting for Charity – *Happy Dance!* I’m done!
I’ve got just bunches of stuff to show y’all this week, but first, since it’s Charity Tuesday – My Share-A-Square Afghan is finished, complete, done, and over!! It’s on its way back to Shelly with a little cloth bag for the tags when the recipient removes them. Whee!
I’m extremely pleased to have taken part in this project, and so happy I found it. What a great experience! I have pleasant memories of receiving my box and connections made across the world. I know that with my limited time I wasn’t able to contribute as much as I might have otherwise, but at least I got off my butt and contributed 
At this point, Shelly has more squares than they need, and over 100 afghans are now complete. Two side projects have developed – one that’s making cloth bags to go with the afghans to store the tags.
The other project is actually collecting donations to send the kids with cancer (who are receiving the afghans) to Camp Sanguinity in July. Her last post indicates that they have enough to send 2 kids to camp at this point [update: 3!]. So if you feel inspired, the button for the PayPal donate thingie is there to the left.
I wish I could send a picture of the blanket to all the people who contributed, but I don’t really know who most of them are!
Without further ado, here’s my blanket. Here’s also the little cloth bag with drawstring that I made for the tags from the blanket. Such fun!
Below, bottom left, is the square I made for it. You can also see the border I made. I’m divided between calling it the bumblebee border and the taxi border. I thought yellow might be a nice, cheerful color for a kid.
And the polka-dot bag I made for the tags. I wanted tie ends, and so there are bells, too. My cat tried to attack them immediately. She’s a big bell fan. (That’s one huge pic of the bag. I believe that’s nearly actual size).
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feel free to leave a few words of your own...This Eclectic Life — Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 8:46 am (link)Miriam, you are such a doll! The afghan is gorgeous, and so is that bag! I appreciate you so darned much. I also appreciate the promo for the Camp Sanguinity Fund. I got a cash donation of $100 today and a promise of $50 more, so maybe we’ve got three kids covered. There are still 137 kids to go! If anybody want to give up a latte for a day, the five bucks will make a difference!
Thank you, girl!
Miriam — Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 10:13 am (link)Aww, thanks, guys.
And Shelly, I think you might have achieved sainthood with this project and all you’ve put into it. I’m beyond words with what you’ve done in the past year.
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