Beginning on Juliet's

So now time to begin our Minnie Mouse colored afghan.... We decided to make these little flowers:

It actually only takes about three minutes to make one... So that is good... I will be sewing the all on to a big piece or red fleece. The recipient is a die-hard Minnie fan and loves the color red.... I am making the flowers red, yellow, white and black to fit into the Minnie theme.... We shall see how it turns out... Will post more later! 

Rhonda is complete!!!

I really love the way the ruffled border came out! Absolutely Awesome! I hope she really enjoys it! Thank you to all that helped make this comfortghan possible! 

What I'm working on

As I sit here at work and ponder plans for the day... I have green yarn in my hand adding to some green squares to make Rhonda's afghan... I also stayed up till about 10:30 last night working on flowers for Juliet's afghan! Still need a lot more red ones, but I have a big dent in yellow to go with our Minnie Mouse theme!

Jennie

A big giant shout out to IANNA for completing this mission for us! Jennie hasn't been doing well so it looks like this one will come right at the perfect time for her! Ianna put a beautiful new border on this one. So happy to have this angel as my friend!

Julie's COMPLETE

Final Results

Final Pictures of Diann's Afghan!!!

Neutrals are by far my least favorite colors, but I must say, it came out very nice! Added some color in the border..

Diann's Blanket is almost complete...

Missions update...

Sharon R - Breast Cancer - COMPLETE!!!!

Susan, Army - Brain Cancer - COMPLETE!!! 

Tony, Army Vet - Pancreatic Cancer - Mission COMPLETE!!!!

Sharon M - Lung Cancer - Mission COMPLETE!!!!

Rita R - Lung Cancer - Attempting 8 inch quilted squares. 

Suzanne T - Lymphoma, Circles, any size, any color

Sharon K -  Breast Cancer, 8 inch squares, shades of pink...

Rhonda D - Kidney Cancer - 8 inch, shades of green

Julie - Leukemia - Victorian Rose Strips

Mary M - Breast Cancer, 8 inch shades of Pink

Diann - Lung and Brain Cancer, 8 inch, Neutrals, Soft greens, tans, browns, creams, 

Ronnie - Spleen and Lymph Nodes, 8 inch, blues, greys, and blacks

Lonnie - Esophogus and Stomach - 8 inch, reds, whites, and blues.... 

Juliet (Age 4) - Leukemia - Flowers Afghan, she likes Minnie Mouse, so we are doing white, red, black and yellow flowers.. 

Xavier - (Age 2) - Neuroblastoma - 4 inch squares... waiting to find out what colors... 

Jennifer - Pancreatic Cancer - 8 inch rainbow squares

Camryn - Age 4 - Neuroblastoma - Flowers - pinks, purples, blues... she likes to accesorize, anything you want to include..

Jennie - Lung Cancer - Pastels 8 inch squares, we are sending these to Ianna to put together, so, if you would like to send some, I will get you her address. 

Jennifer - Grey Zone Lymphoma - 8 inch squares any color, DeAnna will be assembling this one... so I have her address on file as well if you would like. 

Jesse - Prostate Cancer - 8 inch blus squares

Jo - Leukemia - 12 Inch Squares - Only need 2!

Address to send squares:
Jill Robertson
c/o Wrapped In Strength
1811 Chantilly Ct
Lawrenceville, GA 30043

551.427.5437
if any questions

Thank you to all who help, will be posting pictures of Susan's soon. Its almost done!

Wattle Stitch

Update on Needs

We need :


-59 Pink Squares - Mary and Sharon K
-24 Red Squares - Lonnie
-36 Green Squares - Rhonda
-TONS of the small flowers - White, Black, Red and Yellow for Juliet - Pink, Purple, Blue for Camryn
-Victorian Rose strips - Julie


Thank you to all that help! It means so much to me!


I finished up Ronnie's Blue Squares last night... So that one is done along with Susan... just need to box in and border... Diann's last squares should be on the way to me with the ones I am making today.. 


Everyone's donations are so pretty and unique! I love how everyone seems to do it differently, and its neat to learn the different ways to tuck in the ends... 


HAVE A GREAT DAY! 


Jill 

Current Missions

Susan - Brain Cancer - 8 inch squares, rainbow colors - should have enough to start boxing in, making a couple more today

Rita R - Lung Cancer - Attempting 8 inch quilted squares, have about 12 quilted and non quilted blocks

Suzanne T - Lymphoma, Circles, any size, any color, have enough circles collected, working on sewing onto fleece

Sharon K -  Breast Cancer, 8 inch squares, shades of pink... NEED

Rhonda D - Kidney Cancer - 8 inch, greens, NEED

Julie - Leukemia - Victorian Rose Strips NEED 

Mary M - Breast Cancer, 8 inch shades of Pink NEED 

Diann - Lung and Brain Cancer, 8 inch, Neutrals, Soft greens, tans, browns, creams, Almost there but NEED

Ronnie - Spleen and Lymph Nodes, 8 inch, blues, greys, and blacks, NEED

Lonnie - Esophogus and Stomach - 8 inch, reds, whites, and blues.... NEED

Juliet (Age 4) - Leukemia - Flowers Afghan, she likes Minnie Mouse, so we are doing white, red, black and yellow flowers.. NEED

Xavier - (Age 2) - Neuroblastoma - 4 inch squares... waiting to find out what colors... NEED

Jennifer - Pancreatic Cancer - 8 inch rainbow squares NEED

Camryn - Age 4 - Neuroblastoma - Light pink and purple - 5 inch squares - Princess anything to go with it... NEED

We just received two more requests, Jennifer and Camryn. Both are hearthbreaking stories. Lets get them an afghan of love. 

Feel free to donate anyway or to whichever Mission you can!

It truely warms my heart to have such great friends to help! Thank you all! 

Got some 2 for $5 yarn at JoAnn's....

Out of commission

So I have been out of commission for a couple days... Only a cold, not to worry... I am back ready to work... So a couple weeks ago I stumbled across a pattern, and I had to try it! Still working but here is the beginning.... I thought for Xavier's package, I would include one of these and a copy of the movie. Its one of the Minions from Despicable Me the movie..

(this is the example by the creator)

http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.com/2010/07/despicable-minion.html is the pattern if anyone is interested!

Working on the circles....

I think they look better overlapped, so there is a preview of the blues... It took me about 30 minutes to sew six of them on, so this will take awhile... That is what I will be working out on at nights when I'm home... During the day I will just square on, and since I get to be driven everywhere I go by the hubby, I work in the car... Love it!!

Keep up the great work ladies! It means so much!

For the Non-Quilters.. Non-Crocheters that want to donate...

Circles... Mrs. Sharon (Mission #4)... Flowers

Yesterday was a great day!!!

Circles -

Ok so I laid out all the circles that we have... 

Sorry Its blurry, had to hold the camera over my head and guess

Need more purples and reds... 

also more greens... have tons of blues...

Mrs. Sharon -
Mission #4 is complete and received... here are some pictures... Windy, her daughter that requested it for her said that she was overwhelmed and teared up when she read all of her letters!! I'm so glad that she enjoyed receiving some love from us!!

Flowers - I finished quite a few yesterday... Here's what they looked like laid out... pretty cool looking... If you decide to donate some, please use an H hook, and worsted weight yarn, so that they all fit together just right... I should have measured them, will do that in a bit...  

I hope everyone has a wonderful day! Thank you all so much for helping with these wonderful projects!

Flower Afghan Again... This pattern is much easier...

These are very simple: well this is how I made it... There was no pattern listed...

*Chain 4. 17 DC's in original loop... ss to join...
*chain 1, SC *chain 3 , skip 3 DC, SC* all the way around, join in original SC
*1SC, 1 HDC, 3DC, 1 HDC, 1SC in each loop around, SS to join, finish off

Extremely easy and quick, another way to use up scraps...

Look at this example of what they did with them using wool... I might want to make one of these... The link is: https://sarahlondon.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/field-of-crocheted-flowers/

Took me about ten minutes to make 4 of them: