Mary's Yarns

Please join us and invite your friends!

Bring your own projects as we discuss the three projects that the knitters and crocheters have agreed to focus on this year:

We continue to make scarves and provide them to the Dobbs Ferry Food Bank and Midnight Run. We also make lap blankets, participate in Project Linus, and operate the Operation Baby Shower for American Legion families.

• Initially, our project was for scarves for the "giving trees" on Cedar and Main Streets. We have changed where and how we will provide scarves to members of our community.    Each year, the committee discusses and agrees on how to allocate these scarves—deadline: November 12.

• The American Legion sponsors Operation Baby Shower. We will provide information about this worthy annual cause and provide the deadline, usually March 1. Drop off will be here at the Library, and we will get them over to the American Legion. www.operationshower.org

• Project Linus is also a local and national cause that makes and distributes blankets to area facilities. Before the pandemic, children's hospitals received many of the blankets. Now they are donated via food banks and other sources. For Linus, crocheted, knitted, sewn, and tied fleece blankets are all accepted. Blankets will be provided to children from infants to teenagers.

• We are proud to continue the tradition of making a quilt to be raffled off to benefit the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Library.

All of the above projects MUST be made of washable materials. Whether you sew, knit, crochet, or make fleece blanket borders, they all must be washable and smoke-free.

January 5 & 26
February 2 & 23
March 2 & 16
April 6 & 20
May 4 & 18
June 1 & 15
July 6 & 20
August 3 & 17
September 14 & 21
October 5 & 19
November 2 & 16
December 7 & 21