Important - Bears!
Those of you who have been reading since the yarn burial incident this summer may remember me telling you about Jo-Anne in Ontario who makes teddy bears for kids in need. In my book, Jo-Anne is pretty great. She makes piles and piles of teddy bears (very cute!) and then donates them to charities both local and around the world. I think that's pretty cool.
Jo-Anne contacted me again this week and shared this picture of the current batch of bears, which went to a local Ontario shelter for Christmas. She sent FIFTY bears to the shelter. Fifty.
Okay, Jo-Anne has used up all the yarn I sent her over the summer and could use some more. I dug through my stash and found a pile:
That's going in the mail tomorrow. But Jo-Anne knits fast, and there are always kids out there who could use a bear. Here's what Jo-Anne said to me in her e-mail:
"I can use any weight, from sock yarn to the chunkier or sports yarn weight. I knit them from pure wool, wool blends, and acrylics as well. I wish my budget would allow all pure wool bears, but it doesn't. As for colours - anything, the brighter the better. If it stripes, or is variegated - that's good. Solids are good too, even the darker ones, for bear pants or the base of the sweater. If I find the wool too fine, I can easily double it up, or combine two wools. I'm pretty easy, and used to working with lots of different wools and weights (thanks to your help!).
I'd love to get lots of ends and small balls, left-over sock bits, etc. I think knitters often have small balls left that they hate to throw out, but have no use for them. I'm okay with sharing my address if people want to email me at fourgump@sympatico.ca"
If you have some extra yarn in your stash that you would like to send to Jo-Anne, why don't you e-mail her a note and she'll give you her mailing address. I don't have as many readers as Stephanie, but it sure would be nice if we could try burying another house in yarn, this time for a much better cause.
I'm off to do some more holiday card-writing and gift-knitting.
Jo-Anne contacted me again this week and shared this picture of the current batch of bears, which went to a local Ontario shelter for Christmas. She sent FIFTY bears to the shelter. Fifty.
Okay, Jo-Anne has used up all the yarn I sent her over the summer and could use some more. I dug through my stash and found a pile:
That's going in the mail tomorrow. But Jo-Anne knits fast, and there are always kids out there who could use a bear. Here's what Jo-Anne said to me in her e-mail:
"I can use any weight, from sock yarn to the chunkier or sports yarn weight. I knit them from pure wool, wool blends, and acrylics as well. I wish my budget would allow all pure wool bears, but it doesn't. As for colours - anything, the brighter the better. If it stripes, or is variegated - that's good. Solids are good too, even the darker ones, for bear pants or the base of the sweater. If I find the wool too fine, I can easily double it up, or combine two wools. I'm pretty easy, and used to working with lots of different wools and weights (thanks to your help!).
I'd love to get lots of ends and small balls, left-over sock bits, etc. I think knitters often have small balls left that they hate to throw out, but have no use for them. I'm okay with sharing my address if people want to email me at fourgump@sympatico.ca"
If you have some extra yarn in your stash that you would like to send to Jo-Anne, why don't you e-mail her a note and she'll give you her mailing address. I don't have as many readers as Stephanie, but it sure would be nice if we could try burying another house in yarn, this time for a much better cause.
I'm off to do some more holiday card-writing and gift-knitting.
posted by Shelly Kang at 8:01 PM
6 Comments:
Wow, she is fast, and the bears are cute. Let's pass the yarn burial around the internet!
What a cool idea. I'll probably email her to offer some odd scraps of my own.
You might want to re-consider the way you published her email address, though. The @ symbol is likely to attract lots of unwanted spam to her account. Try something like "fourgump [AT] sympatico [DOT] ca" instead. Just a suggestion.
Sorry, forgot to sign my name on that last comment!
-Susan from Madison
Lurker here -
I just sent her an e-mail.
Thanks for the post, that box has been sitting in my furnace room mocking me!
Thanks Shelly. Your reading public is awesome. And generous of spirit. I'll keep the pics of the bears coming, as long as camera and computer continue to talk to each other!
Thanks everyone who's written. You are helping to put smiles on the faces of some children who really need to feel loved.
That Anonymous was me, Jo-Anne. For some reason, the comment wasn't accepted the first time with my name. Anyone else having a problem?
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