I also posted about this on my blog, but thought I would share a picture here too. These are my additions to the stack.

Marcia

I posted this on my web site, but wanted to share it here also.

As those of us who choose to do this work know, when a child dies, there are no words or actions that will make the hurt stop or go away. However, there is balm in knowing that others care.

A friend of mine is close friends with a family in need of such balm.

On New Years Eve a family with 4 young boys were in a car accident. Aaron, age 2, died from injuries received in the accident.

Their friend, Jen, is putting together an afghan for this family with 7" squares from all over. Sadly, there are more needs out there than any of us can fill. I know many of you have your own causes. If, however, this project happens to be something you would like to help with, please read on for the details.

The requirements/needs are very simple:

Jen is requesting 7" squares, made from a soft acyrlic type yarn, in blues or greens.

Contact for mailing address: njbush at netins dot net

If you would like, you may send a postcard along with the square/squares showing the area the square comes from. This is not required.

Maybe you have some left over yarn in your stash to use up, or want to try out a new color pattern or technique. Simple solid colors are needed also.

A simple way to make a square without figuring out gauge is to knit a square on the diagonal. Working in garter stitch, simple cast on 2 stitches. Knitting each row, increase one stitch at the beginning of every row until a side measures 7". At this point, begin decreasing one stitch at the beginning of each row until you work down to one stitch. End off.

Each square adds to the stack.

Thank you!
Mama Bear

A big thank you to Pink Dandelion for updating Lucybug and getting us back up and running. We had some spam on lucybug and the updates are designed to greatly cut down on this. Next we will be adding addresses of places people can send donations.

WELCOME to those who have joined since I last welcomed new members in August! My apologies for being so late!

We hope members will feel free to post messages and/or photos! We realize that sometimes it's hard to know what to say in a first post, so feel free to just jump right in.

We look forward to seeing what is being worked on or completed as well as helping out if anyone has a question or needs help with a project. Seeing what others are working on is a great way to share encouragement and inspiration!

On an administration note: Each member has the option in their personal settings of receiving e-mail notification of comments posted to the posts you leave. This can be turned off if you prefer not to receive replies to comments you leave here on Lucybug in e-mail. For those who's comments received spam replies, and you received a copy of that spam, please rest assured that while Lucybug forwarded those comments to your e-mail since it's automated, the spammer did NOT get your e-mail address.

May your New Year be filled with hope and kindness,

Mama Bear

Yay! I'm so excited to have finally found a place on the personal level where knitters are doing the same kind of charity work that I am. I'm a fifteen year-old, and I've been knitting bereavement items ever since the daughter of someone I greatly admire went on to be an angel. I know that Lucybug no longer accepts donations, but I was wondering if anyone has a charity in the southeast that would accept my stuff, (I've currently got 3 hats, 3 preemie buntings, 2 full-term buntings, and one little boy's sweater/booties bereavement set and no place to send my stuff!) Thanks soooo much, and Happy Knitting!

*By the way, I'll soon have some of my original patterns ready to be posted on the site...Where should I send these??