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We’re excited to share that The Christian Chronicle published a story about us!
You can check it out on their site. There’s even a video from one of our Work Days.
Thank you everyone who has helped make it possible for us to continue this good work. We really appreciate you and all you’ve done!
We appreciate Chellie Ison and the rest of the Christian Chronicle staff for their great work on our story.
As the end of the year approaches we’re planning for 2017. We’ve selected dates for the first half of the year and hope you’ll join us as often as you can.
The dates are listed below, we’ll be meeting from 2-5 PM. More info is available on our events page.
Hope to see you at our last one of 2016 on December 4th, and then at as many as possible in 2017.
Over the years we’ve been doing this Threads of Compassion project we’ve seen a lot of different scarves. Some seem very simple while others seem very complex. The beautiful thing about it is that they all serve the same purpose, offering a bit of comfort to someone at a terrible time.
So, we’re wondering: do you have a favorite pattern? You know, the go-to one that you use time and again, maybe with different colors, but the same pattern. This is the one that you’ve done so many times it doesn’t require much concentration once you get going. It’s familiar and comfortable to create.
Some of us may be feeling a bit stuck in a rut with doing our familiar one over and over again. And, though there are lots of resources available that have great patterns, hearing from other people about their favorites would be great.
So, if you have a favorite, or just one you enjoy making, please share in the comments, a link to the pattern would be great if you have it 🙂 Let’s all see if we can benefit from trying something new in the next few months.
To get us started I’ll share one: it’s called the corner to corner pattern and you can see instructions including a video at The Crochet Crowd. This is one that took me a bit to learn at first, but once I got the hang of it I found that I loved it. I even used it for a scarf that went to the fair this year and brought home a ribbon.
All right, I shared one, now you can too…
An idea shared by one volunteer turned into a great event!
One of our volunteers had participated in the Oklahoma State Fair Creative Arts Division competition last year, in addition to all the normal categories she really enjoyed giving to the charity division. In 2015 there was one charity: Infant Crisis Services, participants could donate lots of different baby items to the fair that were then given to the organization.
This Spring she asked what we thought about seeing if Threads of Compassion could be a category at the fair for people to enter. We loved the idea and were so glad to have her contact the fair officials and get the ball rolling. The people in charge were willing to add us and have 2 charity categories this year. In the end three of us worked together to get the proper information to the fair and it happened!
It was so exciting to see Threads of Compassion listed in the booklet for all to see!
We are thankful to have received 36 scarves (11 knitted and 25 crocheted) donated by volunteers both old and new to Threads.
In addition to seeing the great quality of work we also are glad to have so many people who are new to Threads participating with us.
Each scarf was awarded a specially made blue ribbon titled “Fair Compassion”. In addition to that the top 10 in each category was awarded a ribbon corresponding to it’s place as well.
We’re looking forward to next year already!
It was pretty cool to visit the Oklahoma State Fair last week and see the scarves to be donated to Threads of Compassion. As you can see from the photo we had a great turn out for this first year.
You can still swing by and see them until the fair closes on September 25th. The display is in the Creative Arts Building. There are lots of other cool things to look at in there, too.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this effort. We really appreciate it!
It’s just a few days until our September meeting and I’m really looking forward to it!
Our monthly work days are a highlight of the month for me. Even the months I’d rather get a Sunday nap I’m always glad I went. Some of the reasons include:
So, yes, some months I really wish I could just hang out at home and fall asleep on the couch for a bit. But, even those months, or especially those months, I come away from our time together glad I went and looking forward to the next one.
Hope to see you Sunday!
Whether or not you plan to make it out to the Oklahoma State Fair this September, we hope you’ll send a scarf. Yes, we want your scarf, whether or not you can come 🙂
For the first time, Threads of Compassion OKC has been included as a charity in the creative arts competition. It’s pretty cool: participants register, knit or crochet a scarf, deliver the scarf to be displayed, and then at the end of the fair all the scarves to go to Threads OKC. So cool, right?
It’s time to register to join us at the Oklahoma State Fair! The creative arts competition has opened online registration and they are ready for submissions. You have from now until August 15th to register.
It’s pretty simple, registration all happens online, there is no fee, and you drop off your scarf September 1oth or 11th. If dropping off is a problem, contact Jessica and she’ll help make arrangements to get the scarf dropped off for you.
You can see the instructions in the Needlecraft Guide, along with our listing on page 13.
For a bit more info, check out our post from last month: Let’s Go to the Fair!
This isn’t new news, but if you’re new to Threads of Compassion you may not know that we also have a Facebook page.
We use it to share about our work days, share a few pictures of things, and just get the word out.
So, if you haven’t liked us yet, now may be a good time 🙂
We’re excited about a new opportunity coming up this Fall!
The Oklahoma State Fair Creative Arts Competition is accepting donations of scarves for Threads of Compassion OKC. The scarves will displayed at the fair and then donated to us.
There’s not a fee to participate and you get a ribbon!
Exhibitor registration is available online July 1 – August 15th.
Items can be dropped off September 10th and 11th, and if you’d like we can help get them delivered for you.
You can see the instructions in the Needlecraft Guide, along with our listing on page 13.
It may seem a little early to be sharing this info since registration isn’t open yet, but we wanted you to have plenty of time to plan your entry 🙂
We’ve planned our work days for the rest of the year and hope you’ll join us!
These are Sunday afternoons from 2-4:45pm in Edmond.
Check out our Events page for more information.