Hooking & Punching

here's my work in progress on the Catnip rug

(adapted from A Little Porch Time)

Melrose had to check it out too...

still need to dye the background wool

hope to achieve an oatmeal type color...

notice the helper still around in the lower right corner?

this photo was from before I decided to change

the cat from black to ginger...

punching on black weavers is wonderful for dark background

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chemo hat update

I gave 10 hats to Paula yesterday and she was delighted!

she can wear them to surgery too

while she still has her hair...

Thanks to:

~ Mimi and Cheri for some wonderful fabric!

~ Bren for four great hats!

~ Doris for 4 more hats!

You're wonderful!!!

Chemo Hats Update

Thank You

so very much for the wonderful

response to my chemo caps

fabric and cap request

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Caps arrived this week from Doris

fabric from Cyndi and Mimi

big hugs my dear friends

there are some ladies who requested

my address but are

no reply bloggers

so I have no way to get in touch with

~~~

my email address is along the right side

of the blog where it says

"contact me"

please email me there

so I can get right back to you

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I'll be sharing photos soon of caps and fabric

knowing Paula

there will be

photos of her wearing her caps!

Chemo Caps

I can use some help here...

One of my coworkers is getting ready for chemo

again...

She's already lost both breasts to cancer

then recently had a second primary cancer

ovarian...

some girls have all the luck

Yesterday she was saying

it was harder to lose her hair

than her breasts...
no one can see what's going on

under your shirt

but your head...no one can miss it...

The help I need is with bright fabrics

blues for work

any other colors/prints for home

or if you'd like to make a cap I'd love that too!

My budget isn't allowing for anything

extra right now but I'd dearly love to

make her six or more caps...

the pattern calls for 2/3 yard fabric...

http://www.craftandfabriclinks.com/bonnet/chemo_hat_pattern2010.pdf

Please email me for my address

if you have any bright fabric to share

or can make a cap...

I'll share any extra caps

with the Oncology Department at work

A little bit about my coworker...

once she had a patient with cancer and they were

talking about losing their hair

the patient said how tight money was

and that she was going to have

to keep wearing the same few caps

for months...

well

these are the same caps we wear to surgery

my coworker went to her mailbox

pulled out all her caps

then gave them to the patient

who left in tears with a big smile on her face...

my coworker looked at all of us

and said

"don't say a word or I'll cry too...I hate crying"