ELK Studio – From the Heart Spring/2016 Charity Event!

April 18, 2016 by Kathy Lashley Leave a Comment

Hi everyone! It’s time to kick off our ELK Studio – From the Heart Spring/2016 Crochet Charity Event! Our winter event was a huge success, and I know this event will be a smash hit too. The ELK Studio Crocheter’s Group is an amazing group of people who come together and give back. I’m always honored by their giving hearts but we all know crocheters are giving people anyway don’t we?

Tracy is our organizer for the event once again. When we delivered the hats to the Emory Winship Cancer center in Atlanta, Georgia for the winter event, we had lunch afterwards and talked about the group and how everyone came together to give back. Getting to see the facilities where people could come in and get their hats was amazing too. Tracy and I thought it would be just as great if we could give to the Pediatric side of the Emory Winship Cancer center this time. I hope you’ll jump on board and join us!

I’m asking for you to only make ONE item so it won’t be too hard on you to get it done…… but think about it for a second, if a lot of us were to make just one hat, scarf or blanket….it would certainly add up!

Charity Details!

Here is what they need:

hats (Child-Adult Size)
lap blankets

Here are some guidelines for you:

Please remember to use acrylic or cotton yarn.
NO WOOL ITEMS.
Place your items in a zip lock bag. (A note with encouraging words would be wonderful)!
Please keep your furry buddies (cats or dogs) away from the item you will be donating.

If you need some inspiration for hats, I have a collection of hats my fellow designers thought would be good for chemo patients too.

Click HERE to take a look!

Mail your items to the following address no later than May 30, 2016 :

Tracy Waller
518 Lincoln Street
LaGrange, Georgia 30240

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: elkstudiocrochet@gmail.com or hit the CONTACT button on the home page. I’m so excited to see what we can do together!

Kathy

Traveling with Tracy to Emory Winship Hospital!

April 4, 2016 by Kathy Lashley Leave a Comment

I wanted to give everyone an update on the ELK Studio – From the Heart Winter event! I had a fabulous time with Tracy delivering our beautiful hats to Emory Winship Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. I asked Tracy if she would be interested in telling her story of what it meant to her to join the event. (Pictured from Left to Right) Kathy, DaVida and Tracy

“Back in Jan I turned 50, having spent the previous few months feeling down and overwhelmed I decided to treat myself to some ME TIME. That translated into making a trip to Yarnhouse in Opelika, Alabama to meet Kathy Lashley and other members of the ELK Studio group for an afternoon of crochet and chatting.

This was a fun-filled afternoon that was refreshing and energizing. During the course of the afternoon I shared with the group that my mother and my best friend were both battling cancer, and I was working to make hats for both infusion centers. Kathy offered to let me host the upcoming From the Heart event. I accepted. This turned out to be the best thing that I have done for myself in a long time.

Kathy posted the event and the hats began to show up at my house. After long days at work I would come home exhausted and defeated. I would check the mail and find packages from members of the group. My depression and anxiety melted away as I discovered gorgeous hand-made hats from members who were giving their time and talent to comfort people they would never meet. It renewed me and renewed my faith in people.

On Wed March 16, Kathy and I rode to Atlanta and delivered half of the 150 hats, scarfs and headwraps to Emory Winship where my mother is currently receiveing a stem cell transplant. We arrived unannounced and were received with a huge smile from DaVida Lee-Williams, the director of Guest and Volunteer Services. DaVida’s warm smile and caring spirit lifted my spirits and confirmed that I had made the right decision by accepting Kathy’s offer to allow me to host this event.

I want to thank everyone that made this possible. Your help with making hats for these two infusion centers helped me to achieve a goal that I would not have been able to accomplish alone.

I will be shipping the balance of the items to Wake Forest Baptist Hospital where Donna Browning Mitchell is receiving treatment. Donna and I have been best friends for 21 years, she is currently battling Ewings Sarcoma.”

I want to thank Tracy for helping me make this event so successful! I hope you’ll join us for our next upcoming event. Stay tuned for details soon!

Kathy

ELK Studio – From the Heart July/2014 Charity Event

August 13, 2014 by Kathy Lashley 10 Comments

ELK Studio - From the Heart

I’m not sure how to express how incredible the ELK Studio Crocheters are for making the ELK Studio – From the Heart charity event for the month of July such a success!

Our group decided to donate hats and blankets to Project Sweet Peas. It is a wonderful organization that sends our projects to NICU units for those sweet precious babies. Our group made a total of 128 hats and 33 blankets! I want to give a special thank you to Maria from Pattern Paradise. She volunteered to be the organizer for the event and will make sure all the projects make it safely to Project Sweet Peas!

Would you like to know more about the charity? You can click on the Main Page or the Calendar of Events to see what’s coming up. The details for the events are located in our events tab in the ELK Studio Crocheters Group.

Here are some photos of our project!

ELK Studio - From the Heart July/2014 Charity Event

Have a great day! Be blessed.

Kathy

Charity Details!

Click HERE to take a look!

Mail your items to the following address no later than May 30, 2016 :

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