Knit4Charities

Christmas is almost upon us again and I dont know about you but I feel as though I am still getting over the last one!!  Must be getting old because the days, weeks and months are literally flying past me --- I dont know how I keep up.  Well I do know actually ----- I dont keep up!!!

Knit4charities has had another fantastic year.  Our Yahoo group members have been so generous with their donations.  Every charity we have supported has received a sizeable ...

........ I posted an update!!

Our Fathers Day Beanie project was a roaring success.  I collected 297 beanies and distributed them between 5 Aged Care facilities.  Every man in aged care received a beanie and the excess I gave to Meals on Wheels to be given to whoever they thought might not otherwise receive a Fathers Day gift.

They were all packaged seperately with a little greeting card and I made sure that each nursing home received all differ...

My last blog posting was in March -- I cant believe it's been that long......... well, no, I tell a lie....... I've said many times before I am the world's worst blogger...... it's not really a surprise so much time has passed since my last entry!

Obviously a lot has happened in those months both personally and to knit4charities.

Personally - we spent 5 weeks away from home, house-sitting for my niece and having a holiday with our grandchildren.  Ano...

This week I spent quite some time with a new friend who has battled breast and other forms of cancer for 21 years.  It was amazing the information I gained from her regarding headwear and prosthesis.

If you've read my blog you will know that knit4charities has recently been knitting titbits (breast prosthesis) for mastectomy survivors.  Until this week I had never seen an actual proper prosthetic!  Now I have seen one I have realised that our knitted or croche...

Hope you are all enjoying this weekend.

It is a special one for me this year because I was nominated for Australian of the Year!!!   I am still in shock but it must be true because I have a certificate that says so....

http://knit4charities.webs.com/Australian of the Year nomination cer...

and I am going on holidays tomorrow  YAY!!!

Well, I tell a lie because I still take my work with me   If I left it for 3 weeks it would take me 6 months to catch up so much easier to do a little each day -- keep on top of things.

We will be spending Christmas with DH's cousins in Bendigo.  So looking forward to seeing them again and also catching up with some of our knit4charities group members while I am there.

I am just so organised!!!  Normally...

Well that's my excuse!!

Since I last posted an entry my DH has been in hospital having his hip replaced.  An amazing operation that seems to remove the pain along with the damaged joint.  This is what is taking up all my time -- assisting him with the things he cant do because he's not allowed to bend his hip joint more than 90 degrees.  And, of course making sure he does all his physio exercises, going to appointments etc etc.

I did get some knitting done while...

8 rugs finish and still more squares to put together   They are all packed up ready to send off to various charities. 

I played around with one of them adding a band that extends beyond the width of the rug, put in some button holes and buttons -- voila -- a wheelchair lapghan.  It secures around the waist to stop it from falling off.  This one is going to a nursing home!

34 Beanies -- My challenge to myself -- all done!!!

Finished last night at 8pm -- just made it.

Can you tell I am happy!!

These will be sent off to the Hutt St Centre in Adelaide in the next few days.

What will I do now??  

Sew up squares perhaps -- I only have 240 waiting to ...

Well I have been on holidays!!  Not that I am making excuses  but I must admit I am not the worlds best blogger --- more likely the worlds worst!

Holidays were wonderful, we had the best of weeks with our grandchildren at the Gold Coast.  Beautiful warm sunny days, then the day we left the unit it started to rain and got very cold.  Someone up there was watching over us for that week!!