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Pine Street Inn’s Knit-A-Thon Pledge Drive

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

This is posted on behalf of Farley Sullivan who is organizing the Pine Street Inn’s Knit-A-Thon Pledge Drive

Hello All,

The weather outside is starting to cool off and if that doesn’t make you want to start knitting maybe the upcoming Pine Street Inn Knit-A-Thon will! Time is going so quickly and the November 4th Knit-A-Thon is a little over a month away.

So please, don’t be a square…. KNIT ONE!!!!!

STEP 1: Ladies (and gentlemen) start your needles! Start knitting your 9 inch by 9 inch squares. They can be ANY COLOR, ANY MATERIAL, ANY GAUGE, ANY PATTERN… And, you can feel free to knit as many or as few as you are able!!!!
STEP 2: Go forth and multiply! If you can knit one, you can knit two…. And so on, and so on. Each blanket will take 35 squares. Even if you can only knit a few - they will help complete a blanket.
STEP 3: Please follow the easy, step by step instructions and make your very own webpage at www.firstgiving.com/pinestreetinn.
STEP 4: Estimate how many squares you can knit by November 4th. I estimated that I will make 50 - which is a lot… In fact, I am knitting while I type this email… really!
STEP 5: Ask your friends and family to support your knitting efforts by pledging on a per square basis on your webpage. For example: $1.00 per square x 50 squares = $50.00. Or they can make the dollar donation of their choice. The donations you collect on your secure First Giving webpage will go to the Pine Street Inn’s Supportive Housing Program.
STEP 6: Join us on Sunday, November 4th from 10:00am to 5:00pm at the Women’s Inn at Pine Street, 363 Albany Street, Boston (you can drop in any time during these hours). Bring your knitted 9 x 9 inch squares on November 4th and together we will assemble them into blankets. Check out http://www.pinestreetinn.org/knit-a-thon/ . If you cannot make the event, please knit anyway… Your squares can be collected by a fellow knitter or shipped to the event.

This is the perfect warm-up to get your knitting back in shape for those winter projects you have on your list! Please, join us and get your knit on! It will be fun and we will serve refreshments and food. There will be prizes too (cool ones… promise!). You will be doing what you love for a great cause. If you cannot participate I would ask that you consider making a donation at www.firstgiving.com/pinestreetinn - there are several knitters with pledge pages already.

Winter is coming. Let’s lend a hand, a blanket and some much needed financial support to the Pine Street Inn, New England’s largest resource for homeless men and women. Thank you so much for your consideration…. I look forward to seeing you November 4th!

mebeli

Very best regards,

Farley Sullivan

P.S.

The lovely ladies at A Good Yarn in Brookline Village (www.agoodyarn.biz) have donated yarn to the event and if you would like to pick some up please visit them and say you are knitting for the Pine Street Inn Knit-A-Thon. Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions about the event.

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