How Knitting Can/Cannot Help the Japanese...

"For knitters, helping folks in need is as automatic

as stashing yarn. We don't think about it,

we just do it. And we take pride in doing it well."

http://blog.oregonlive.com/knitting/2011/03/helping_japan_how_your_knittin.html

WCLO Stitcher Blog

Rose Stricker has posted 2 new stitching blogs on the WCLO website. Let her know you enjoy them and follow her progress!

http://wclo.com/weblogs/rose-stricker/2009/mar/05/baskets-of-yarn/

http://wclo.com/weblogs/rose-stricker/2009/mar/02/feeding-my-yarn-addiction/

Stitchers in the News

Listen http://wclo.com/podcasts/wclo-news-features/2009/feb/19/more-blankets-needed/#comments
and read about the local chapter of Project Linus and the opportunties available for local stitchers at http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/feb/19/project-linus-asks-help-increased-demand-blankets/

7th Annual Project Linus Make A Blanket Day

MABD '08

Saturday, February 16

9 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

Rock County Job Center

1900 Center

 (Intersection of Hwy. 51/Kellogg St.)

Janesville, WI

All ages welcome • No experience required

Attend all or part of the day

You're encouraged to bring your own blanket making supplies, tools, 

portable sewing machines and blankets to complete 

OR

You may use materials and tools that will be available including

a variety of sewing machines available on a first-come basis

Hourly Door Prizes • Brunch & Lunch Provided

Vendors • Displays • Entertainment

If you're unable to join us, your handmade 

blanket donations are always accepted

at the following locations:

Janesville: 23 S. Atwood Ave. (top of Courthouse Hill)

Beloit: Walmart SuperCenter Pharmacy, 2785 Milwaukee Road

Jefferson: Tea and Textiles, 107 S. Main St.

Fort Atkinson: Fort Sew 'n Vac, 1109 Whitewater Avenue

Volunteers and Donations-in-Kind are encouraged!

Please contact Judith at 608-752-9248

to be part of the planning and organizing to make

this MABD the best yet :-)

505 BLANKETS!

Volunteers of all ages came together to lovingly knit, crochet and quilt blankets which will be given to children in need to provide a sense of security, warmth, and comfort at facilities and agencies throughout the Rock, Jefferson, Green and Walworth Co. area.
Co-sponsors and contributors this year included Rock County Job Center, Mocha Moment, Tea & Textiles, Fort Sew ‘n Vac, Marshall Middle School VIP Club, Thrivent, Stitch ‘n Bitch, Material Girls on Main, Dunkin Donuts, Subway, Prime Time Pizza, Ben Franklin, Party Lites, Avon, Frito Lay, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Badger Chordhawks Chorus, HospiceCare, House of Mercy, the Matthew Thomassen Charitable Fund through the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., Johnson Bank, and many others.
Door prize and contest winners included: Penny Harris, Marily Oertel, Arlene Katcher, Hannah Schiro, Doris Kolff, Gloria Steurer, Frances Schwengels, and Sandra Vogel of Janesville, as well as Rosalia Ballinger (Whitewater) and Doris Montgomery (Beloit).
Those still wishing to donate blankets now or throughout the year may donate materials or a new, handmade blanket at any of the three donation sites: Project Linus at 23 S. Atwood, Janesville; Walmart SuperCenter Pharmacy, 2785 Milwaukee St., Beloit or at Tea & Textiles, 107 S. Main, Jefferson.
Since the Janesville chapter began in March 2000, over 4,300 blankets have been distributed though a variety of area agencies, facilities, to individual children and blanket requests are always welcome.
Begun in 1995, Project Linus is a 100% volunteer, national organization with nearly 400 chapters and nearly 2 million blankets have been donated throughout the country.
Anyone aware of a child who needs a blanket, would like to donate your own new, handmade blanket, or supplies, contact Project Linus at (608) 752-9248 , e-mail proartist@aol.com, or at http://www.projectlinus.org