Community Clickers
USING NEEDLES, HOOKS, AND YARN
TO CREATE COMFORT AND WARMTH FOR OUR COMMUNITY
Currently:
We are currently working to build up our collection of blocks to use for our Hospice Shawls. We still need to create a number of shawls to meet our 30 shawl commitment for 2021. We welcome any color knitted or crocheted blocks (7x9) with the greatest need for lighter or neutral colors to incorporate with some of the "orphan" or single blocks left in our current collection. See more below.
In addition, we are again making hats (newborn sizes) for the UNC hospitals.
First Wednesday of each month (2:00 - 4:00 pm)
in the Commons
Third Monday of each month (7:00 - 8:30 pm)
Completed during September, collected in October
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What do we do at Community Clickers meetings??? We met on Wednesday October 4. Susan Blanchard, Susie Hafer, Mary Collins, Carole Bruhn, Barbara Seufert, and Barbara Bibb attended. Once we collected all the completed donations for the month we had 16 hats, 52 blocks, and 3 completed shawls. Mary donated a stash of yarn. The box in the Commons now has plenty of bulky yarn (for scarves). Pick some up if you need yarn to create a scarf for Project Homestart. We designed 3 more shawls and then solved the world's problems as we knit on our individual projects. We will meet again next month. Hope you can join us then. Should you need project ideas to work on, we still need blocks and baby hats. In addition we will be donating scarves to the Project Homestart Christmas bags. Happy knitting and/or crocheting. We met in the commons on September 1. Susan Blanchard, Susie Hafer, Barbara Bibb, Rita White and Mary Collins attended. We welcomed Mary as a new member of Community Clickers although she is know to the Community Church. Rita brought back three shawls. She stitched them together. Barbara now has them to do the edgings. We designed a couple of shawls that Rita again has to stitch together. One baby had was turned in. We collected finished blocks from several members and found some that Mary LeMay left in our boxes. We have a stash of yarn that can be used for baby hats. blocks, or scarves. If you need yarn for these projects stop by the box to pick some up. In addition, to our usual projects Barbara created some fidgets (crocheted) to be used by members of the Caring Committee as they visit members in need of distraction or comfort. The fidgets used small left over balls of yarn. Directions will be written up and posted soon (for those that would like to try this project). |
Fidgets--Sept 1
Community Cllickers
Can't knit or crochet? We will teach you!
Have leftover yarn or needles/hooks you no longer use? We will take them!
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Block: 7" x 9" (18 to make a shawl) - Be sure to leave 18" yarn tails at opposite corners so that we can sew blocks together to make shawls. Yarn: Washable, acrylic, worsted weight (#4). No wool or animal fibers. Knitting Patterns (click here) Gauge: 5 stitches = 1 inch Crocheting Patterns (click here) Gauge: 9 stitches = 2 inches 2021 Projects 2020 Projects 2019 Projects 2018 Projects 2017 Projects 2016 Projects |
Meetings: All in-person meetings at Community Church are suspended until further notice. We will resume this schedule when possible. Not required, but if you would like to click together, come to the Commons Area from 2-4 pm on the first Wednesday and/or the Straley Room from 7-9 pm on the third Monday of each month.
Tabling: Check the Weekly Announcements to find out when we will have a table in the Community Room during coffee hour. Shawls: We deliver shawls to UNC Hospice Home in Pittsboro, NC. We delivered 10 in 2016 (after starting to meet in May) and 20 (plus one to Duke Hospice and one to Charles House) in 2017. We met our goal of delivering 30 shawls to UNC Hopsice in 2018, bringing our 3-year total to 60! We met the goal and delivered 30 new shawls to UNC Hospice Home in 2019. Unfortunaletly, due to miss counting we were one shawl short of the 2020 goal of 30 shawls. We plan a 30 shawl goal for 2021 and will will add in the extra missed 2020 shawl, by delivering at least 31. |
Block Donations: You can make blocks (7" x9" with two 18" yarn tails) at home and share them when you are ready!
They can be dropped off when we table or in the Clickers Box in the Commons Area.
examples of Our Donations to Hospice House
October 2017 delivery, which brought our 2017 total to 20 and overall total to 30!
See the annual project folders for a complete photographic record
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7 Shawls ready to be sent to Hospice House (May 2017)
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February 2018 - Note the two special shawls for veterans.
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May 2018
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Baby Hats delivered to UNC in October 2020
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The Spiritual Practice of Knitting and Crocheting
(Borrowed from ERUUF's Clicking for a Cause Page) A spiritual practice is a regular activity that you use to come closer to life's mystery and to touch the "heart spaces" within you. While their hands are busy, some Clickers think about the people to whom their project will be presented. Others use the time to focus their minds and hands on the rhythm and motion, simply settling into the process of creation. Others say silent prayers. Some Clickers, especially knitters, like to use patterns in mutiples of three stitches—three being a sacred number in many faith traditions. "Clicking" is an opportunity to grow in spirit while creating gifts of comfort and love. |
Resources:
More information can be found at http://www.eruuf.org/Caring/clickers.html For more patterns and information about block ministries, visit the Warm Up America website at: http://www.warmupamerica.org/. |
Questions? clickers@c3huu.org