Join us for our monthly work day, where we’ll visit, make scarves, and package completed scarves for delivery.
Sharing softness at a hard time
We are so excited to be partnering with LuLa Roe Kari Littlejohn this month! In honor of sexual assault awareness month, this business is working to provide leggings to victims of sexual assault.
The way it works is that you can purchase a pair of leggings and then donate a pair as well. There’s a $10 discount on the 2nd pair that will be donated, so for $40 you can have a cool, comfy pair for you and provide one to be donated!
If you haven’t tried LuLa Roe leggings before, you may be surprised by how soft and comfy they are. I’ve heard so many people say “they’re like butter”. They really are the softest, most comfy item in my wardrobe.
The donated pairs will be delivered to the YWCA in order to be distributed by their staff. A selection of both sizes of leggings will be delivered in order to try to serve as many as possible.
You can shop online for your leggings, or you can contact Kari to make arrangements to shop in person in Edmond. If you don’t live close by, no problem, you can select your leggings online and take advantage of discounted shipping for this project.
To learn a bit more about LuLa Roe Kari Littlejohn and see her announcement of this project, check out her Facebook Live video from April 4th.
Special Guests at our Work Day
We’re excited to announce 2 special guests who are planning to visit our Work Day this coming Sunday, April 2nd.
Kim Moyer, State Director of Marsy’s Law for Oklahoma will be sharing with us a bit about Marsy’s Law and it’s current state here in Oklahoma.
Kari Littlejohn of LuLaRoe Kari Littlejohn will be sharing with us about a cool opportunity to bless some of the ladies that the YWCA serves here in Oklahoma City.
Our event lasts from 2-4:45 PM, both guests are planning to arrive at 3 PM, we hope you’ll be able to come meet them and hear about the work they’re doing.
Can you join us?
In just about a month we have the opportunity to join the YWCA for their annual 2 Minute 5 K. We’ve had a team and a booth at this event for several years now and it’s always a good experience.
There are a couple of ways you can join us again this year by registering for the event:
- If you’re a runner or walker, sign up for the 5K.
- If you have a kiddo, sign them up for the Kiddie K.
- If you don’t want to have to join the crowd and move around, sign up for Snooze for SAAM.
There really is a place for everyone!
Here are some more details:
Location: Stars and Stripes Park
Lakeshore and N. Portland Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Length of race: 5K Race / Kiddie K (1K)
Date: Saturday April 22nd, 2017
Time: Registration opens at 7:00 a.m.
Kiddie K starts at 8:00 a.m. / 5K starts at 8:30 a.m.
Registration:
Kiddie K – $15 Standard registration, $20 day of race
5K – $25 standard registration, $35 day of race
Snooze for SAAM registration – $20
A new pattern and chance to win!
Are you looking for a new pattern to try? It can be easy to keep doing the same one or same couple over and over again. So, I was pretty excited to see that The Crochet Crowd is hosting a Valentine Heart Scarf Challenge this month.
They’ve shared a new scarf pattern, and we can create the scarf, follow their guidelines, and send them a photo to enter for a chance to win a bag of yarn.
This seems like a great opportunity to try something new and create a cool scarf to donate as well as possibly win a prize. Lots of possible good from one scarf! When the challenge is over they’ll draw 5 random winners, who knows, one of us could win.
If you decide to give it a try we’d love to see pictures of your finished project. You can post them on our Facebook page, or bring them to our March Work Day.
Run, Walk, or Snooze with us
Registration has begun for the YWCA’s 2 Minute 5K!
Whether you want to walk, run, or snooze there is a way for you to join us this year.
Please join our team by registering online and help us share the word about this great event.
If you’re not in the OKC area or walking/running a 5K isn’t your thing, you can sign up to Snooze for SAAM. This lets you still be part of our team and support the event without having to get out there early in the morning.
The event will be April 22, 2017 at Stars and Stripes Park in OKC. There’s a Kiddie K at 8:00 AM and the 5K begins at 8:30 AM.
A great story about us!
We’re excited to share that The Christian Chronicle published a story about us!
You can check it out on their site. There’s even a video from one of our Work Days.
Thank you everyone who has helped make it possible for us to continue this good work. We really appreciate you and all you’ve done!
We appreciate Chellie Ison and the rest of the Christian Chronicle staff for their great work on our story.
Planning for 2017
As the end of the year approaches we’re planning for 2017. We’ve selected dates for the first half of the year and hope you’ll join us as often as you can.
The dates are listed below, we’ll be meeting from 2-5 PM. More info is available on our events page.
Hope to see you at our last one of 2016 on December 4th, and then at as many as possible in 2017.
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January 8, 2017
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February 5, 2017
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March 5, 2017
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April 2, 2017
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May 7, 2017
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June 4, 2017
- July – no meeting
- August – December dates to be determined.
Do you have a favorite pattern?
Over the years we’ve been doing this Threads of Compassion project we’ve seen a lot of different scarves. Some seem very simple while others seem very complex. The beautiful thing about it is that they all serve the same purpose, offering a bit of comfort to someone at a terrible time.
So, we’re wondering: do you have a favorite pattern? You know, the go-to one that you use time and again, maybe with different colors, but the same pattern. This is the one that you’ve done so many times it doesn’t require much concentration once you get going. It’s familiar and comfortable to create.
Some of us may be feeling a bit stuck in a rut with doing our familiar one over and over again. And, though there are lots of resources available that have great patterns, hearing from other people about their favorites would be great.
So, if you have a favorite, or just one you enjoy making, please share in the comments, a link to the pattern would be great if you have it 🙂 Let’s all see if we can benefit from trying something new in the next few months.
To get us started I’ll share one: it’s called the corner to corner pattern and you can see instructions including a video at The Crochet Crowd. This is one that took me a bit to learn at first, but once I got the hang of it I found that I loved it. I even used it for a scarf that went to the fair this year and brought home a ribbon.
All right, I shared one, now you can too…
Success at the State Fair
An idea shared by one volunteer turned into a great event!
One of our volunteers had participated in the Oklahoma State Fair Creative Arts Division competition last year, in addition to all the normal categories she really enjoyed giving to the charity division. In 2015 there was one charity: Infant Crisis Services, participants could donate lots of different baby items to the fair that were then given to the organization.
This Spring she asked what we thought about seeing if Threads of Compassion could be a category at the fair for people to enter. We loved the idea and were so glad to have her contact the fair officials and get the ball rolling. The people in charge were willing to add us and have 2 charity categories this year. In the end three of us worked together to get the proper information to the fair and it happened!
It was so exciting to see Threads of Compassion listed in the booklet for all to see!
We are thankful to have received 36 scarves (11 knitted and 25 crocheted) donated by volunteers both old and new to Threads.
In addition to seeing the great quality of work we also are glad to have so many people who are new to Threads participating with us.
Each scarf was awarded a specially made blue ribbon titled “Fair Compassion”. In addition to that the top 10 in each category was awarded a ribbon corresponding to it’s place as well.
We’re looking forward to next year already!