Our Wool-Aid community joined together to create some beautiful blankets for afghans for Afghans — Oddball Blankets, Odd-Block Oddball Blankets, and a few by individuals — 13 blankets in all! They were delivered to the afghans for Afghans HQ in February and went out in the February shipment. The campaign has been extended by afghans for Afghans into May 2011, so we continue our campaign, too. See the Wool-Aid a4A Blanket Campaign announcement for more information.

Thanks to all who made it possible to send such beautiful, warm woolen blankets to the children in Afghanistan!

Our Sock Blitz campaign began in early August, 2010, and ended 100 days later, on November 15, 2010. Our goal was to collect 100 pairs of warm handknit socks in 100 days. By October 26, we had collected 103 pairs of socks.  So we set a new goal of 120 pairs, and we reached that on November 3. Then we set a revised goal of 150 pairs, reaching that goal on November 13!

After 100 days, our final count was 182 pairs of wonderfully warm handknit socks to warm the feet of children who live in desperately cold conditions. It has been decided that these socks will become the first shipment to the children of Kyegu, as part of our Knit for Tibet campaign.

A warm thank-you to all who participated in the Sock Blitz, making it possible to send so many warm pairs of woolen socks to the children of Kyegu!

Mittens and hats from this campaign, which ended on September 30, 2010, are now on their way to Kazakhstan. This is the second of two shipments for this rolling-deadline campaign. This time we are sending 55 hats and 29 pairs of mittens for the children in orphanages in Akkol and Urupinka, Kazakhstan, where winter temperatures reach 40 below zero!

Thanks to all who made it possible to send such beautiful, warm woolen hats and mittens to the children in Kazakhstan!