Donation to needy mothers and babies in Boise.

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This donation went out to needy mothers and babies in the Boise, Idaho area.  There are some happy snuggly warm babies and smiling mothers who are very relieved that they could get the items they need for their babies.  Thanks to all the volunteers and donors who made this donation of brand new items to needy families possible.

3    Gerber Sleep n Play
3    Bambolina body suits
1    Carter 3 piece outfit
1    zippered Nursery Rhyme outfit
1    2 pce outfit, Baby Essentials
1    Garanimals onesie/shirt
1    froggie applique onesie
1    elastic band blue jeans
1    3 piece First Impression Froggie out fit – bib/shirt/pants
1    jacket and shirt set – UFO
1    Protection System jacket
1    Fisher Price sleep and play outfit – newborn – yellow
4    receiving blankets – animal theme
1    Fisher Price sleep and play outfit – newborn – blue
2    Gerber baby gowns
2    First Impression blue baby gowns
1    Heirloom wooden rattle
2    baby ballet church shoes – newborn pink
1    pr baby sandals – pink
1    pr newborn pink baby shoes
4    pr baby socks
2    pacifiers

Have You Done Something Good In The World Today?

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Note from Relief Share President Carol Green:  This is a reposted blog my daughter, Phly Jambor, wrote.  It is so appropriate for the charity work we love to do.  I thought we would all enjoy it ;-)
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There is a song that I love that goes like this:

Have I done any good in the world today?
Have I helped anyone in need?
Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?
If not, I have failed indeed.


Has anyone’s burden been lighter today
Because I was willing to share?
Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way?
When they needed my help was I there?

I felt the need to reflect on my actions of the day. Had I helped someone? Had I helped to fill the needs of someone that could not help themselves? Had I made life better for those around me?

It does not need to be something huge, or some grand gesture to let the world know how good and wonderful you are, that defeats the purpose. Charity and honest affection for your fellow human beings is not about who can make the biggest splash and get noticed the most by doing good deeds. It is about the quiet moments of kindness and simple, unacknowledged goodness that make a life better because it was touched by them.

It’s about lifting those around you when they are too weary to take another step, be it physical or emotional. It’s about taking a moment to talk to that kid at the pool that drives everyone crazy by asking a million questions. . . . probably because he’s lonely. Or about smiling at the massive, scary, tattooed biker guy in the gas station aisle even though your knees turn to jelly. . . . because maybe he’s having a rough day and could use a friendly smile. (Yes, big, scary biker dudes have bad days too!) Or maybe it’s paying for the car behind you at the drive through at Arby’s, or dropping off some school supplies at a local charity.

It’s does not really matter what you do, so long as you just do it. And sorry, but this is not a “it’s the thought that counts” type of deal.

Actions speak volumes louder than words. What do your actions say about you?

Free pattern for knitted stars available! The sick and needy children love them!!

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What are you working on today? These are the stars I knitted last night – each side of the 2 stars is different. I used left over yarn for the blue one and variegated yarn for the pink one. 🙂 A wonderful donor sent our charity, ReliefShare.org all her yarn ends for stuffing to our home office Relief Share, 6078 Lundy Rd., Houston, MO 65483 and we managed to stuff 17 stars with them! 15 of them were donated out yesterday in our Relief Share, Inc all volunteer charity donations.

If you would like the link to the knitted star pattern, post below and I will send it to you. Its super quick and easy, and I can honestly say I have knitted a ton of them over the years, its addicting to knit and feel the accomplishment and fun to help others. It takes approx 1 hour to knit each side of the star, and its a good project to either use up your left over yarn (any kind, you don’t have to match yarn size or type), or use your favorite yarn.

If you are using different thickness of yarn, you can adjust the volume by navajo knitting (chain-plying) thinner yarn to match thicker yarn, or simply doubling the yarn. 🙂❤

If you have a fun project, message me at President Carol Green, info@ ReliefShare.org and I will be happy to post it here on our Relief Share blog to share with others. Its fun to help others and interact with those who are involved and doing the work to make the donations to bless the lives of the sick and needy possible.

They are comfort toys for sick and needy children in hospital, crisis centers, medical centers, foster homes, and other situations that we donate through our charity. When I make them, I like to hum this song as I go – the stars let children know they are important and loved.

Relief Share Prayer Shawls

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These two beautiful crocheted prayer shawls were made by Jei Sundquist, and donated to Relief Share, Inc. Jei is amazing with knitting and crocheting! She inspired our volunteers to learn how to make shawls with mandala yarn and volunteers have made and donated more shawls this week to folks who are struggling and just need to know they are loved and prayed for, and that God is watching over them!
Thanks so much to Jei for her caring and sharing. ❤ Relief Share is so blessed to have her as a director on our Relief Share all-volunteer charity board.

This is the pattern Relief Share, Inc volunteers are using to make prayer shawls to donate to those who need a snuggle in tough times. It wraps them in love and lets them know they are not alone and they are loved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45acPwFbsY

Relief Share donation available in the Free Pantry! Open 24/7 – take what you need, share what you can!

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We just filled the Houston, MO Free Pantry Blessing Box with Relief Share donations of food, water, toys, hygiene supplies, and more. Take what you need and share what you can! Jesus said: “Love everyone, treat them kindly, too!” Our community does just that! ❤️ Thank you to everyone who has helped make our community a better place to live! 😊

Relief Share volunteer makes beautiful dishcloths for the sick and needy.

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We were so thrilled to get a wonderful donation from Sue B. She handmade these gorgeous cotton washcloths to donate to the sick and needy ReliefShare.org serves.

If you would like to make dishcloths (also used for baby washcloths) for the sick and needy, here is a pattern that we actually use a lot.

Grandmother’s Favorite Dishcloth
Rating: Easy
Materials: Sugar and Cream yarn; Size 6 or 7 needles (US)
Instructions:
Cast on 4 stitches
Row 1: Knit 4
Row 2: Knit 2, yarn over, knit across the row. Repeat Row 2 until you have 44 stitches on the needle.
Knit 1, Knit 2 together, yarn over, knit 2 together, knit to the end of the row.
Repeat Row 3 until you have 4 stitches on the needle. You can now either bind off or do a round of single crochet and make a little loop of chain stitches in one corner so you can hang the cloth to dry when you are finished using it.

A huge thank you to Sue, we sure appreciate you!

Charity quilt for child in hospital – this little boy loves the Cardinals!

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This quilt was certainly made with a lot of love. We used a Cardinals t-shirt purchased at Walmart as we couldn’t find any St Louis Cardinals fabric to use. Walmart also had the perfect red, blue and yellow fabric to go with the red shirting material with logo. We strip quilted the quilt and purchased stabilizer to iron on the back of the shirt that we had to carefully cut open on the seams to use for the quilt. Fortunately, there was a quilt shop having a sale of 40% off in town so we got the stabilizer there.

When the patchwork quilt was pieced, we added the patient’s name in applique on the top of the quilt. Everyone is so excited to see the quilt done and donated to this darling little boy. He has had many many operations in his short lifetime and is always cheery and fun to be around. What a good example to the rest of us, eh?!

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You can see the Cardinals tied polar fleece blanket and the cardinals quilt under that on top of our donations of quilts, etc going into the hospital.  There were a lot of happy children when the donations were given out!

Crochet Ideas – working on fundraisers and donations

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This is a super idea to handle all the leftover skeins and bits of yarn from leftover projects and also when you find bags of the nicest yarn remnants at garage sales or flea markets.  Children (and adults) love the scrappy afghans.

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Turning scraps into fun afghans.

The pattern is quick and easy.  Chain a row the size of the afghan you want to make.

  • Crib: 45 by 60 inches
  • Twin: 66 by 90 inches – the twin size quilts we are making are approx 70 to 75″ x  90″ – the extra inches allow for more cuddle room side to side for children in body casts.
  • Double: 80 by 90 inches
  • Queen: 90 by 90 to 100 inches
  • King: 108 by 90 to 100 inches

After you have chained your first row, insert hook into the third stitch from hook, under the two upper strands and make a dc.  Skip one stitch and make 2 double crochet stitches in the next stitch.  Do this until the end of the row.  In other words – instead of making a dc in each stitch, you are making 2 dc in a stitch, skipping the next stitch and then doing 2 dc in the next stitch.

This is the pattern for the entire afghan.  Use a large hook and keep your stitches uniform and loose.  When changing color, either make a square knot or tie both ends together by making a loop, passing the ends through the loop, and pulling it tight to make a knot. Leave an inch of ends when you change colors to make the afghan even scrappier – see the picture.

This type of afghan crochets up very quickly and is a lot of fun to do.  When you are done, put your afghan (or afghans) in a box and send them to:

Relief Share
6078 Lundy Rd
Houston, MO 665483-2225

Please include a note in the box with your name and address so we can send you a thank you letter/tax deductible receipt.

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Snuggle blanket from scrap yarn.

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Happy colors make for happy kids.

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Look what a difference a bit of eyelash yarn can make.

If you don’t have time to make the afghans – please send your yarn skeins and scraps to us and our volunteers will be happy to crochet them up into bundles of love.

Hugs,
Carol Green
President/Relief Share

Relief Share volunteers are working on quilts for Shriner’s Childrens Hospital – “how-to”

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1Relief Share volunteers are enjoying making the twin size quilts for the hospital and thought we would share with everyone on how we are making the ones we are doing.

We purchased fabric that was already patchworked with flannel and chenille and added fabric strips along the sixes to make it 70″ x 90″.

Relief Share donated lots of items made with love to the hospital, church, school and more

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Relief Share volunteers have been very active in taking care of the sick and needy this August.  There were city wide garage sales to go to for supplies and new items like coloring books, crayons, toys, and clothing.  Many hands make light work and beautiful donations arrived at Relief Share home office to be taken to where they were needed the most.

One of the really fun donations arriving lately were the tiny baby outfits and sleepers with beautifully handmade matching hats!  Thanks to Minerva, for her loving kindness for the little babies we love and serve, she makes gorgeous baby items out of the prettiest colors.

Relief Share volunteers managed to find a business closing out and bought scads of onesies and newborn baby outfits for the hospital maternity unit.  A donated wooden cradle was given to a church nursery for their toddlers. A box of school supplies full pencil crayons, masking tape, stapler, pencils, rulers and coloring crayons went to a local elementary teacher for her class.

Another way that folks help Relief Share get the supplies need is to shop on our Ebay auctions where 100% of the auctions go to Relief Share to help the sick and needy.

http://stores.ebay.com/dec2057

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Volunteers spend long hours writing auctions, packing auctions and dealing with ebay customers to make sure it is a win/win for everyone involved.

Relief Share has three flea market booths donated for our use.  It takes a lot of work  to fill the booths and keep them tidy and clean.  You will find unusual items in the booths, much of it donated from the founder’s home and their extended family loves to donate items for the booths as well.  Recently a purge of the linen closet yielded up lots of unused sheets that were no longer needed since the kids have grown up and moved away, so they were tagged at $2 a piece and sold at the flea market so folks who needed them in the community could get them for a low price for their families. Not everyone needs a donation, but they can use a little help stretching their budget, so our flea market booth helps with that.

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Where does it all go?  Who needs our donations?  This week donations were taken to Texas County Memorial Hospital to the maternity wing (baby clothing, bedding, and essentials), emergency department (comfort toys, coloring books, crayons, toy cars, etc), a teacher at the Houston Elementary School (school supplies), a local church nursery (a donated wooden cradle for the toddlers), and some individual donations of baby clothing and household goods.

You can help!  Clean out your closets for a good cause and send the boxes and packages to Relief Share, 6078 Lundy Rd, Houston, MO 65483-2225.  We are a 501 (c) 3 non-profit registered with the IRS and donations are tax deductible. Please include your name and mailing address in the donations so we can send you a thank you letter/tax receipt along with our gratitude and love.

We enjoy serving Gods tiniest children and their families and love to have you join our Relief Share family!

God bless the hands and hearts who put their love in action.

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