Charity Crochet

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll tell you again. Our KS My Stitch Crochet Guild has always done some kind of charity project as long as I can remember. Since one of the jobs as President is overseeing the charity projects, I arrange a time every month after our monthly meeting so that we can work on charity.

This year Susie volunteered to help me out and organized the charity workshops until a medical issue kept her from continuing. When Susie became ill, Kaye volunteered to help until Susie feels better. (Wouldn’t it be cool if they could work together and switch off?) 🙂  I appreciate both of these ladies so much with all that they do for others.

This week Kaye scheduled her first charity workshop and Lucy and I joined her at her home to make scarves for the mothers of children who are being helped by Tree House. Kaye started making a chevron scarf with orange and when she ran out of the peachy orange yarn, she switched to brown. Oh my gosh it is so pretty. Lucy decided to make a white scarf with double crochets and I can’t wait to see how it turns out too.

I decided to use a cream colored I Love This Yarn from Hobby Lobby for a second charity scarf. I also decided to use double crochets and I love how the double crochet stitches worked up really fast and then I had to Tamarafy it with some fun yarn that I refuse to crochet with. I like the way the fringe looks out of the yarn though and I think it just sets off the simple stitches and the plain color too.

Remember how I told you that I would show you the stem and leaves from my other charity scarf? So here you go. I added some fabric for the stem and made two leaves from some really soft fuzzy, olivey green yarn. I really like how it turned out too.

I really want to thank Kaye and Lucy for taking time out of their evening to join me in making scarves for the Tree House. I can’t wait to see  the other guild members’ scarves and will be sure and show you after our next guild meeting. I know that the mothers who are being helped at the Tree House will be very grateful for such lovely scarves we all make for them. Please tell me if any of you work on charity projects, and if you do, what do you make? I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday.