Ready to Go To Afghanistan by November 11th

Knitting for Vermonters

Hat with Note to Vermonters...

Three bags of Knitting from Sharon Barbara and the "Yarnover" Shop.

Kelly and her husband and pooch with car loaded taking donations to Vermont.

Current Afghans for Afghans knitting waiting to be posted

35 wool hats

Ninja Soren!

The knitted Ninja hood being put to good use!

END OF MARCH BOX TO AFGHANS FOR AFGHANS...

ONE very heavy, double knit, afghan of many colors, 9 hats, a vest and a sweater...

We are grateful for your beautiful, hand-made wool gifts for the girls and boys. Thank you for putting so much attention and love into 
blankets and garments that are absolutely first-class -- conveying our 
respect and message of friendship to the Afghan people during wartime.

Your blankets, sweaters, vests, socks, mittens, and hats (for ages 
7-16 years) are now all sorted, packed, and on their way. The 
experienced Mennonite Central Committee is taking care of the overseas 
transit for Help the Afghan Children. Our anonymous donor enabled us 
to send the cartons from San Francisco to the staging area on the US 
East Coast. After our gifts are distributed to the kids during the 
winter, Help the Afghan Children will report back to us, and we will 
share that information with you.

Our 43 cartons contain 2,130 hand-knit and crocheted wool items, as 
follows:

120 blankets
560 sweaters
200 vests
300 hats
400 pairs of mittens
550 pairs of socks

We can't say thanks enough for being so generous with your time, 
talent, and wool.

Afghans 4 Afghans Knitting Continues!

Box sent out today contained:

2 sweaters, 5 hats, 1 vest

FROM A4A:

Thank you for your beautifully made wool blankets and garments for the 

children in the schools run by Help the Afghan Children. This "part 1" 

campaign for youth has now been packed and shipped out -- starting the 

long journey to the girls and boys in Afghanistan.

Your action produced almost 5,000 hand-knit and crocheted practical 

gifts of friendship. This is a wonderful group accomplishment!

You and fellow knitters and crocheters across the U.S. and Canada have 

once again showed phenomenal effort -- with your own time, resources, 

and talent -- to tangibly reach out to the Afghan people. No easy feat 

-- Afghanistan is on the other side of the world. More than nine years 

since this war started. Thank you for remembering Afghan children with 

the work of your own hands and hearts.

These 76 boxes contain the following new, wool items for youth (ages 

7-16 years) next winter --

300 blankets

476 sweaters

440 vests

750 hats

1,000 pairs of mittens

2,000 pairs of socks

Total: 4,966

See our March 12 blog post with action photos of our dedicated 

Basement crew at our AFSC Collection Center that sorted and packed the 

cartons --

http://afghansforafghansknitalong.blogspot.com/

Soren's Sweater as ordered! and more Hatz

Rd Sweater, Black Sleeves!!!

More HATZ

CARE Hats February 5th

Afghans for Afghans current mailing...

FEBRUARY 1ST

From Afghans for Afghans....

The Embassy's thank you/New Year greeting to the knitters who participated in creating sweaters vests, hats, socks, mittens and more for the Afghan children...

Message from Afghans 4 afghans today...

We just got word that Church World Service is distributing 7,000+ of our wool blankets, sweaters, vests, socks, mittens, and hats to their children this week. Some were distributed on Wednesday and more on Sunday. These are cartons that we sent off in late 2009 and March 2010. The former batch had to transit overseas and then get through the customs process in both Pakistan and Afghanistan -- by then, the weather was warming and too late to give for the winter season. The second batch had the same long journey overseas and then had to clear customs twice. Getting containers released from government authorities is a difficult feat, even for humanitarian purposes. Church World Service had a tough year operating under more challenges than ever, and our hearts and admiration go out to them for their perseverance and for distributing our gifts with dignity and love to each child. The plastic bags serve as wrapping paper and help the kids to keep their new possessions clean.


http://www.afghansforafghans.org/phototreat2011.html

Knitting New Year's resolutions...

TO Try out OR Learn OR Have Fun With in 2011 LIST:
Intarsia
Entrelac
Yarnbomb our mailbox
Map of US afghan
Lopi jacket
Cashsoft Chunky Jacket
Learn to:
  do new cast ons
  join yarn better
  finishing techniques

Accomplished in 2010:
WOW what a knitting year!
Community Service Knitting
40+ vests, afghans, hats for AFGHANS FOR AFGHANS
30+ Preemie hats
4 Project Linus blankets
3 Project Mary Madeline blankets

Family and Friend Knitting:
Scarves and hats
Red Sweater with black sleeves for Soren
Ninja hats for 4 boys (balaclavas)
A wardrobe of stuffie clothing including ninja hats for hamster stuffie!!!

Yarnbomb Knitting and Crocheting:
20 states
10 countries
4 continents