Community Clickers

Community Clickers
USING NEEDLES, HOOKS, AND YARN
TO CREATE COMFORT AND WARMTH FOR OUR COMMUNITY

We need blocks!!
It takes 540 blocks, each 7x9 inches in size, to meet our commitment of 30 Hospice Shawls a year. We are currently working to build up a large collection of blocks (7x9) to use on the Day of Service. Help us meet our goals. Leave any completed blocks in the Clickers Box in the Commons. Come on March 4 and design shawls with us.

We are also making baby hats for the UNC Hospital. We turn those in batches as they are made and donated.

Continue to explore this webpage. There are links for patterns as well as pictures of our projects all shown below.

Regular Monthly Daytime Meeting: First Wednesday of each month (2:00 - 4:00 pm)
in the Gathering Room

Specifically announced Sunday afternoon meetings. Let us know if you would like a Sunday meeting scheduled.

Thank You from UNC Hospice, April 26, 2022

Good morning,

Thank you for your continued commitment to offer shawls to the patients and families of the UNC Hospice House. We receive many compliments and notes of thanks for your generosity. It serves as a tangible keep sake for them to remember their loved one and it is very much appreciated!

Best,
Ashley

Ashley Addison, BSN, RN, PCCN | Nurse Manager
SECU Jim & Betsy Bryan Hospice Home of UNC Health Care

Message from UNC about donated and requested baby hats, November 29, 2022

Hi Ivy,

I hope you are well! Believe it or not, we are getting low on hats. We have served about 500 families this year!! Would it be possible to replenish soon? If not, no problem I just thought I would reach out.

Rhonda K. Lanning, DNP, CNM, IBCLC, LCCE, RN
(she, her, hers)

Program Director for Birth Partners
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lerissa Heggen

(she, her, hers)
Program Associate

UNC Birth Partners
Volunteer Doula Program
https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/doulas/

What do we do at Community Clickers meetings???

We meet to collect completed blocks and baby hats. During our meetings we inventory the blocks we have and design our Hospice Shawls. This process involves arranging 18 blocks, by committee, in a pleasing way. Once the shawl is designed it needs to be sewn together. A pocket and edging are added to complete the project.
When the design work that can be done is complete, we sit and work on individual pieces, be they more blocks and hats or personal projects. We share projects ideas and try to solve the world's problems as best we can.
We are delighted to have folks that have needlework questions or those that may want to learn to knit/crochet come by. We would love to share our knowledge with anyone interested and are happy to get folks started either knitting or crocheting.

Fidgets--Sept 1, 2021

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!

https://www.c3huu.org/community-clickers---2022-projects.html

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

2023 Projects
2022 Projects
2021 Projects
2020 Projects
2019 Projects
2018 Projects
2017 Projects
2016 Projects

Meetings: Not required, but if you would like to click together, come to the Gathering Room from 2-4 pm on the first Wednesday. We are also trying to schedule periodic Sunday afternoon meetings especially for those interested in learning and those unavailable during the week.

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! From January 2019 to December 2021 a total of 90 more shawls were delivered to UNC Hospice. We have a 30 shawl goal for 2022.

Baby Hats: We knit baby hats for the newborns at UNC. These are collected monthly and delivered as batches are completed. There is no specific goal or target as to the number of hats we contribute.

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

7 Shawls ready to be sent to Hospice House (May 2017)

February 2018 - Note the two special shawls for veterans.

May 2018

Baby Hats delivered to UNC in October 2020

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