Southwest US Oddball Baby Blankets

[Shandeh]

Hello friendly charity knitters and crocheters!

We work together to make Oddball Baby Blankets for charity. Our blankets will be made according to the requests of our local hospital(s), so keep watching this thread to see our guidelines.

Secksiebrat will be the leader for the Southwest Region Oddball Baby Blankets.

The Southwest Region includes: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

If you would like to volunteer to help make our blankets, please send Secksiebrat a private message, and she'll help you get started!

Our project will begin in August, so let's start our plans!

[Secksiebrat]

Hiya! I just wanted to say I'm here and I'm in

Can't wait for August to start!

~danielle~

[Robinknits]

I love this region idea! I think it will be a lot more manageable. Count me in here!

[KnittinMitchie]

count me in I also pm'd ya jjminarcik

[jjminarcik]

Hey y'all I received PM's from the 3 of you, so I have you on my list!

I am really excited about starting these up again and I look forward to working with all of you!

I will be out of town for good part of the next few weeks, so I may not be posting very often. But I assure everything will be organized and ready to go. I will keep you all in the loop so we can plan accordingly.

[cdjack]

Oh, yea! Count me in as well. I'll pm you.

[Secksiebrat]

I think we might need to start "dragging in" more knitters! LOL. Maybe others just haven't posted yet, but we need more of us! We must just be all lost in the HEAT!!

~danielle~

[KnittinMitchie]

I'm all knitting on the blankets and i do borders too aren't I talented.

Secksiebrat giving the blankets to HAIN sound like a great idea. I was going to call the 2 hospitals here in town and see if they take blankets or any other items.

does HAIN do just blankets? or can it be other items?

[jjminarcik]

Hey y'all! I'm finally back in town after one of my many upcoming trips! It sure is nice to be HOME!

I love the idea of giving the blankets to HAIN - wonderful idea!
Danielle - Can you send me the info that you have?

I agree that we need more knitters - otherwise we may not be able to make as many blankets as I would like. I am trying to recruit one of my knitting friends here in my area. She is out of town and will probably join us later. We do have one other knitter that is a very close friend of mine from college. She lives in Atlanta, so she's out of our region, but wanted to be in my group. I figured we could use the extra knitting hands!

Okay, off to organize this project more so. Thank you so much for volunteering - I'm so excited!!

[cdjack]

I live in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. I know that both the Dallas Children's Hospital and the Scottish Rite Hospital both take donated items.

I'll ask the ladies in my lys knit group if they would be interested in helping us with our blankets.

I'll let y'all know.