I finally finished the blanket and presented it to the Habitat family on Saturday, July 21.  It was awsome!  I am trying to post a picture of the blanket and the family.  It is a women with 5 girls and the home is really nice.  It is in an older part of town that the city is doing some renovation in and the house has a great front porch and is only 2 blocks from the Brazos and a wonderful, very large park.  The home owner was very grateful for the gifts she received and proud of the skills they all learned while building the house.  Oh, it was built by Women!!! from Curves, who sponsored.

Thanks to the generosity of others we have 42 of our 49 squares!  I am so excited!  I want to thank S. in Memphis and my sister-in-law for all they have done.  It will be easy to finish the 7 squares left and put the blanket together in time for our dedication the end of June.  It has really been fun putting this together and I look forward to doing more.  I will post pictures on Sunday afternoon of the whole process!  I love knitting and it is so good to do something, no matter how small for others.  “Give and you shall receive” truly is the way!

I finally got a new digital camera Saturday!  Now I can post pics of our squares (I need to count them again).  Our first dedication will be toward the end of June or the first part of July, so we really need to get with it. 

I got my first comment, came to me via Firefly at I live on a farm.  I am so excited.  Sharon in Hawaii has offered to send squares for our Waco Gracious Parcels!  Maybe others will stop by and offer a square or two.  I know my blog is not the best or most interesting, but it does come from the heart.  Not only mine but some of the great people I work with and others that take the time to share their skill and caring to help us out.  A big THANKS to you all.

Sharing and caring about you community, whatever that may be is what life is about!  Life is an adventure and you never know who you will meet and who may join you along the way!!

Whitneyknitter

I finished 2 more squares for our Habitat for Humanity Memory Blanket last night.  I have lost count on how many we now have.  It is gratifying to finish a square and be that much closer to our goal, but sometimes it goes so slowly!  e-mail me if you want to help put our blanket into a families hands!

Well I finished another square Saturday while riding with DH to Grandbury.  Got another squre started too!  This is going so slow!  My classes have been posponed due to Dr. Appts., errands and other stuff for either myself or my “students”.  Hopefully we can get back on track soon.  The closing for our first family is this month, maybe next, and we don’t have enough squares for the blanket.  We do have a back-up plan though.  A friend, LD, has gathered the materials to do a “quick” blanket with fleece.  The fleece is really beautiful and soft so I hope we can get that done this week.  Please say a little prayer that we can pull this off for the well deserving family that is buying a Habitat for Humanity Home!

Hubby & I went to Abilene this past weekend and I got alot of knitting done on the road.  I got 4 squares finished and several “logs” on my log cabin blanket.  When we got back I sent off 4 square to “firefly” for her blanket.  Blankets go to families that are purchasing a “Habitat for Humanity Home” as home warming gifts.  e-mail me at whitneyknitter at hotmail dot com if you would like to send in some squares for the Waco, TX area Habitat or go to http://scrumptiousliving.wordpress.com/ and click on the Gracious Parcels button to get the info on Firefly’s great project. 

New blog!!!  I hope this one does what I want it to, easily!  I Love to knit!  Right now I am teaching friends at work to knit!  We are starting a Waco, Texas branch of Project Gracious Parcels, started by “Firefly” in western NY state.  Knitting squares to be made into a throw for a Habitat for Humanity family. Our first family has their home dedication in May so we have alot of squares to make.  Anyway, take a look at Firefly’s blog at http://scrumptiousliving.wordpress.com/. 

If you like what you see here and want to help, knit a few 7 inch squares and then e-mail me for an address.  Send a little note with you name, the material of the square and maybe a prayer or a warm wish for our Habitat friends!  Starrbelle!