Packers/Steelers knit/crochet for charity

Green Bay Packer fans everywhere are accepting the challenge to crochet/knit hats for charity. The challenge is to see which group can collect more hats by the end of February. Here is a note posted by Monterey Yarn in Green Bay.

Hi All,
I heard about this challenge yesterday from a customer at Monterey Yarn in Green Bay. Kathy, one of the owners, is a huge Packers fan. What fun this will be!

Count on Monterey Yarn to support this challenge!! We are happy and excited to say that we will be a collection site in Green Bay for this challenge. You can drop items at our store and we are happy to accept mailed donations; and get them distributed in the Green Bay area.

Here’s the store’s contact info:
Monterey Yarn
1541 Bellevue Street
Green Bay, WI 54311
(920) 884-5258

Charities in the Green Bay area that could benefit from this challenge are:

St. Vincent, St. Mary’s, Bellin and Aurora Hospitals all will accept chemo caps and baby hats (in any fiber).
Brown County Cancer Society also accepts chemo hats. Monterey Yarn is a year-round collection site for these groups.

The Green Bay Area Public School District will accept hats, mittens and scarves for school kids in need or at risk.
The homeless shelters in Green Bay will also accept these items.

Monterey Yarn is a collection site for 12X12 squares (in any fiber) which get sewn into blankets for the homeless.

We will find a home for all items that are received during this challenge.

HAPPY KNITTING AND GO! PACK! GO!
Kathy, Julie and Carrie
Monterey Yarn

Two other drop off points are

Iris Fine Yarns
132 E. Wisconsin Avenue
Appleton, WI 54911

Yarns By Design
123 W. Wisconsin
Neenah WI 54956

You can make in any color, any type of stitching, don’t let your head spin

Please take up the challenge and crochet/knit away for whichever team you are supporting. You have until Feb 28 to mail or drop them off! Thank you

GO PACK GO!!!

What is in store for the New Year?

Holidays are behind us, a year of new adventure is ahead. I don't really make New Year's resolutions as I have never been able to keep them. But I do have a few goals for the New Year....

1-Get back to my goal weight by going to meetings at Weight Watchers
2-Learn a new form of crochet...whether that be tunisian, entrelac, double ended hooking....whatever...just learn something new.
3-Make an attempt at teaching one new person to crochet.
4-Finish or frog projects that have been sitting in the "unfinished" box way too long!!

I know there are more, but that is all I can think of right now. The good thing about goals is you have a target. If you are not able to obtain the target you simply adjust the goal. No need to feel like a failure.....just try something new. Pay it forward if you have been shown a kindness. Set a goal to do some sort of self-improvement for the year.

Happy New Year, all......please comment if you are doing something special in the New Year!!