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Thankful for the family of Terry W

We are starting the year off with a beautiful donation!

We now have a great selection of full skeins of various colors ready to be used by our volunteers throughout the year.

Earlier this month I received an email asking if we could make arrangements to receive a large donation of yarn. We’re so honored that Terry’s family found us and wanted her yarn to be turned into scarves that can provide comfort to many here in the OKC area.

I had no idea what to expect when they arrived to drop off the yarn, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of their gift. They sorted it ahead of time to make sure that we were receiving full skeins of acrylic yarn that we can use. Such a beautiful gift!

With the snowy weather we’ve had here in Edmond I’ve been able to make 2 scarves already from this yarn!

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January 2026 Meeting

Our 16th year is off to a great start!

We had a great time the first Sunday of the month. There were 7 ladies present, and we had scarves from a few others that weren’t able to meet with us in person. In addition to sharing new patterns and planning for next month, we packaged 23 beautiful scarves.

We spent some time talking about using our February meeting to offer a “learn to crochet” time for people new to the craft, as well as a space for people who already crochet to work together on a new pattern.

I’m pretty excited about our upcoming meeting and the learning opportunities, as well as the chance to share a bit about what we do with others who join us to learn. We’ll share more details about the day and how to register for the “classes” soon. The general idea is to offer the 2 learning groups as well as have space to work on and package any completed scarves for anyone who would like to participate.

We shared these photos on our facebook page during the meeting, and thought we’d add them here in case you’d like to see them.

As always, we’re thankful for each scarf we receive and each person who helps us package them. Please join us if you’re able.

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Planning for 2026

2025 has been a great year for Threads of Compassion OKC!

We’ve added some new volunteers to our group and we’ve enjoyed our monthly work days. We received some beautiful scarves from the fair, as well as from so many different crafters. We’re so grateful for each one.

It’s a bit hard to believe that it’s already time to look at 2026. But, it will be here before we know it. In fact. our first work day of 2026 is just 16 days away! I’m looking for a fun, new pattern to start the new year. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

You can see the dates of our meetings on this page. They’re basically the first Sunday each month, with a few exceptions.

The first exception is April -due to Easter we’re pushing our meeting back a week to April 12th. Then, we take July off. And, finally we’re going to skip December next year. We have a few volunteers whose schedules prevent them from coming in December, and this year our hostess was the only one present for the December meeting. We’re going to give it a pass next year and see how that goes since it’s such a busy time for so many people.

One new thing we’re thinking about is having a focused time to learn to crochet at our February meeting. We almost always have ladies available who are willing to help others learn, but we thought it could be nice to designate a meeting as a “learn to crochet’ time and see if that is helpful. Please feel free to spread the word if you know people who may want to learn.

The need for scarves continues to be great, and we appreciate each person who takes time to make one and get it to us for packaging and distribution.

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2025 State Fair

Wow! We received some beautiful scarves this year.

photo of 33 scarves arranged in a heart shape
We are SO grateful for these 33 beautiful scarves donated this year!

It’s always fun to see them displayed at the fair, and to try to find the ones submitted by people I know.

It’s encouraging to see so many from people I don’t know, who find out about us because we’re one of the options at the fair.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in this way this year. We appreciate your contribution to our work and hope you’ll join us again next year.

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Let’s Go to the 2025 State Fair!

Registration for the Oklahoma State Fair Creative Arts Competition is open!

It’s free to register to submit your scarves to the competition. They display all the donated scarves together and then we pick them up at the end of the fair.

Everyone who enters one receives a cool ribbon, and they even judge the scarves and award place ribbons to the ones they determine to be the top 10.

Even if you’re not concerned about winning a ribbon, this is a great way to spread the word about the work that we’re doing. It’s pretty encouraging to see them all displayed together at the fair.

Free registration is online now through August 15th. You can submit up to 3 crocheted scarves and up to 3 knitted scarves. The details are all on the State Fair’s website.

If you’d like to participate, we can deliver the scarf to the fair for you, we just need you to register and bring your receipt and scarves to the August meetings, or make other arrangments to hand off the scarf before August 20th.

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May 2025 Meeting

We had a great meeting this month! Five of us enjoyed visiting as we worked together packaging and creating scarves.

There were 14 scarves to package – including some mailed to us from Virginia!

Here are some of the beautiful scarves we packaged.

Another neat part of meeting together is sharing patterns. One of our volunteers was doing a new pattern that she found online that has been great to do while watching TV. It’s a nice, repetitive one. So, I gave it a try. She was right, it’s great!

You can make it too, it’s a free pattern called “Chain Link Scarf” available at the Crochet Crowd. Below is a picture of my work in progress. I plan to share the finished ones next month.

We hope you’ll consider joining us the first Sunday of next month. We’ll be there from 2:30-4:00. You’re welcome to come for the entire time, or just stop by, whatever is best for you.

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April 2025 Meeting

Six of us had a great time visiting and working together on April 6th. One of the great things about meeting together is getting to see what others are working on and sharing tips about different patterns. This month included lots of those conversations as we packaged 22 scarves.

We shared pictures of each one on our Facebook page. You can see them here.

I’m looking forward to our May meeting coming up soon! Please join us if you can. We can help you learn to crochet, and we can always use help packaging scarves – no knitting or crocheting skills required 🙂

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February 2025 Meeting

It was so good to get together this month!

Six of us enjoyed visiting, sharing patterns, and packaging scarves. One of the great things about being able to stop by our meeting is getting to see the scarves that others have made, and get ideas for new patterns to try.

It was especially nice to have 2 ladies join us that had given scarves in the past but hadn’t joined us at a meeting.

It was so fun to admire these 35 scarves as we packaged them this month.

We used a bit of an “assembly line” method of packaging this month. We dividing up the folding and putting into bags, adding the tags, and adding the tape. We even had one bag of scarves that had been prepared last year, but didn’t get taped as our tape supply ran out that month. Their packaging is now complete and they’re ready to be handed off.

Our next scheduled meeting is March 2nd. Please join us if you can!

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January 2025 meeting

It was great to get together this month!

Five of us met together on the cold afternoon to package scarves, crochet scarves, and visit. Though we cut it a bit short due to the incoming snow it was nice to see everyone and work together for a bit.

These 33 scarves were packaged and are ready for delivery to the YWCA!

There was at least one volunteer who didn’t make it due to the weather. I’m hopeful the roads will be clearer and it’ll be a bit warmer next month 🙂

Please join us February 2nd if you can!

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State Fair 2024

Registration for the OK State Fair Creative Arts Competition has begun!

It’s free to register to submit your scarf (or scarves) to the competition. They display all the donated scarves together and then we pick them up after the fair. Everyone who enters receives a cool ribbon, and they even judge the scarves and award place ribbons to the ones they determine to be the top 10.

If you’d like to do this, but don’t want to have to drop your scarf off at the fairgrounds at the designated time, that’s no problem! You can bring it to our work day in August or make other arrangements to get it to Jessica by August 23rd and she’ll drop it off for you you. You just need to register yourself, and get your scarf and copy of your registration receipt to us and we’ll handle the rest.

Free registration is online now through August 15th. You can submit up to 3 crocheted scarves and up to 3 knitted scarves. The details are all on page 18 in the Creative Arts Guide online. Please join us if you can!