The Common Thread Circle

Jennifer Barnes at the Harris County Hospital district writes in with a message of support:

I am so happy to hear that your group is being blessed by leaps and bounds. We are so grateful that you have chosen to donate your time and talents to us!

Our patients are blessed by your gift of generosity. Please let the ladies know how much we appreciate them. Liz and I will have to stop by Starbucks one of these days! Hope all is well.

Fondly,
Jennifer Barnes
Harris County Hospital District

The first month of our new year was a busy one in which the Circle has really grown.

We were on two local TV newscasts and you all looked wonderful.

We donated 1026 handcrafted fabricworks to: Ben Taub, Memorial Hermann, Children’s Memorial Hermann, M.D.Anderson, St. Luke’s, Triumph Memorial Hermann Hospitals, The Concierge Nursing Home, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church and our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We added three new hospitals. Memorial Hermann Southwest, TIRR and Spring Branch Medical Center.

Our website is receiving between 125-150 visits a day. Be sure to visit and post your comments at www.thecommonthreadcircle.org.

We need some of you to volunteer to cut out material and others of you to sew it at home. The designs would include bears and baby blankets.

We continue to meet on Mondays at Town and Country Starbucks and are very thankful to Charles Peirsol for his hospitality.

We will meet at my home on July 8 to knit and crochet, share patterns and ideas.

We will meet at MDUMC in Room D220 at 9:30a.m. on July 21.

Thank you for helping make our group such a success.

Thanks also to Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, its head minister Dr. Chuck Simmons, and minister Dr. Suzanne Cox Reedstrom for their help and support.

KIAH (Channel 39) visited us in the form of the amiable Leticia Juarez, who interviewed members of The Common Thread Circle about our handcrafts and donations.

You can read the full news story on Channel 39′s web site. Here’s one highlight:

Last year, the group said it donated more than 5,300 items to local hospitals. Memorial Hermann Hospital patients are some of their recipients. Volunteers help to distribute pillows, blankets, and several other items during their daily rounds at the hospital.

“They light up not matter how much pain they’re in. Its a present, its something,” said Donna Boyd a Volunteer Patient Advocate with Memorial Hermann Hospital.

We’re thankful to Channel 39 and Leticia Juarez for showing the world our best side.

Here’s the announcement from our helpers at Twisted Yarns:

We just wanted to remind you about our Charity Knitting Night next Thursday, June 18th, from 5 to 8:30. We’ll be knitting/crocheting bears for kids, and stocking caps for the troopsin Afghanistan.

The finished bears will go to children in local hospitals, and will be distributed through The Common Thread Circle. You can learn more about them here – www.thecommonthreadcircle.org. We have Encore that was donated by Plymouth Yarn for the bears, and Cascade 200 Superwash donated by Cascade for the stocking caps. We will provide the yarn and the patterns, you just bring some needles (size 7 or 8) and show up! You may use your own yarn as long as it is machine washable and soft.

Come visit this Thursday, June 18, from 5 PM – 8:30 PM to help us out.

Twisted Yarns
702 Spring Cypress Dr. Suite A
Spring, Texas 77373
281-528-8664

We have worked very hard during the past two weeks and my blue room is filled with our handcrafted fabricworks. They will be donated in the next few days.

This Wednesday, June 10 at 1:30 Knitters and Crocheters and those who want to be will be meeting at my home. Come meet the magnificent Simon and lovely Miss C, learn a new pattern, make some new friends and, yes, take in a few calories. Call me for directions.

Monday June 15 from 2-4 at OUR Starbucks. Come for our usual organized chaos and also meet Leticia Juarez from Channel 39. She wants to see how we work and then follow our fabricworks as they are given to hospital patients. Wait til she sees what a great and caring group we are!

Tuesday, June 16 at 9:30a.m. meet in Room D220 at MDUMC for more stuffing, sewing and fellowship. Please note the earlier hour. I promise to have some great Starbucks coffee waiting for you.