Winter's Coming

Its time to get ready for our first winter delivery. It will be around mid December. We need warm items to bring the babies home in. Our focus will be Newborn Blankets, Sweater sets, Going home outfits and hats.  Please check the Guidelines for yarn types and the "What We Need" section for sizes. We also have some free patterns here and at my blog.

Thank you....

Thank you Jane Lubben of NY for your donation of hats and the sweater set.

Summer Things

I made a delivery to Southside Hospital last week.  There were over 200 items.  For our next delivery we will be in need of Preemie blankets and burial gowns. Of course we have a need for everything but we didn't have too many preemie blankets this past delivery so they will be a greater need for them. Also, I haven't received any burial garments in a while so they will be in need of those too.
Thanks!

June Donations

Check out some of the beautiful items I've received so far this month:
https://picasaweb.google.com/bellasbabies1228/June#

Gifts from Down Under

I received these beautiful baby clothes from Moira in Queensland, Australia. It is our first international donation. Thank you Moira!

Bunny Hats

I have been making bunny hats for Southside. If you would like to make some I could use a little help.  I used this pattern for the hat. I am using Pound of Love and a size
G-7 hook for the larger ones and Bernat Softee Baby and a size G-6 hook for the smaller ones.  To make the hat with a fold up bring work 11 rows of DC and 1 row sc crochet in the contrasting color.

To make the ears: ch 8, dc in 4th chain from hook and each chain across, ch 2 turn, work 8 DC rows. To decrease for the point of the ear: (row 9) DC in first 2 stitches then work a DC decrease in the next 2 sts, ch 2 turn. Row 10: DC decrease 2 stitches together and fasten off. 
Make 2 white ears and 2 pink or blue ears.  Lay the colored ear on the white ear and single crochet the ears together, I just work the 2 long sides, you don't need to crochet the bottoms of the ears together. Sew on.

Remember hats should be 11"-12" around.
Thanks!

Donation Totals

I packed up all of the donations for January and February to be delivered on Monday.
There were 308 items total.

Hats: 197
Newborn Blankets: 29
Preemie Blankets: 22
Sweater Sets: 35
Booties: 15

Thank you to all who helped!