Community Clickers
USING NEEDLES, HOOKS, AND YARN
TO CREATE COMFORT AND WARMTH FOR OUR COMMUNITY
We surpassed our 2024 Hospice shawl goal!! We completed and donated 36 shawls this year. The 2024 projects folder has been updated to picture all that we completed. I would like to thank Dirk Van Der Plas for physically delivering our shawls to UNC Hospice in Pittsboro.
Now we are generating blocks to be used during the 2025 Day of Service. We will continue to make, collect, and use 7x9 inch knitted or crocheted blocks for the Hospice Shawls. We only have one monthly meeting before the Day of Service. If you are interested in creating blocks you are welcome to leave completed blocks with 18 inch tails in the Clicker box in the Commons. If you need yarn to make blocks there is a supply in the same box.
On the Day of Service we will invite others to join us designing shawls. In small groups we will arrange 18 blocks in a pleasing configuration, pin them, and then sew the blocks together.
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.
Now we are generating blocks to be used during the 2025 Day of Service. We will continue to make, collect, and use 7x9 inch knitted or crocheted blocks for the Hospice Shawls. We only have one monthly meeting before the Day of Service. If you are interested in creating blocks you are welcome to leave completed blocks with 18 inch tails in the Clicker box in the Commons. If you need yarn to make blocks there is a supply in the same box.
On the Day of Service we will invite others to join us designing shawls. In small groups we will arrange 18 blocks in a pleasing configuration, pin them, and then sew the blocks together.
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.
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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!
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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 Hospice in 2018, bringing our 3-year total to 60! From January 2019 to December 2023 a total of 150 more shawls were delivered to UNC Hospice. We completed and donated 36 shawls in 2024. Baby Hats: We knit baby hats for the newborns at UNC. These are collected 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
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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? [email protected]