Dropoff Wednesday afternoon at Harlow Platts

Have you been busy knitting your bingo hats? Our next dropoff is Wednesday, February 10, from 2-3 at Harlow Platts park. Let's gather a great big pile of hats to give to Clinica. We have plenty of winter left in Colorado and lots of people to keep warm! Remember to snap a photo of your hats before you donate them.

When you complete a bingo, let me know by leaving a comment here or by sending an email to amysantamaria@gmail.com. I mentioned prizes, so here's what I have so far:

I will give anyone who gets a bingo a free copy of my worsted-weight socks e-book (5 patterns) and a scarf pattern I wrote last month. If anyone else has any prizes they'd like to donate (things knitters would like), please let me know. Possibilities: special yarn, knitting notions, knitting books or patterns. For any physical items, I will use a random number generator to select a winner. If it's electronic (a pdf of a pattern you wrote, for example), let me know if you'd like to offer a certain number of copies (I'll use the random number generator), or one to every winner. For physical items, I'll put donor and winner in touch with each other and you can decide if you want to mail or exchange in person.

This may be a mess, but I think it will work! Trying to inject a little fun since we can't meet in person. Just a few more months until we have some warm weather and can hopefully resume our outdoor meetings!

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