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RED ROCK NEWS, Sedona, Arizona Wednesday, November 3, 2010- 7A
The group crochets
afghans to donate
to the VV Sanctuary
By Lu Stitt
LARSON NEWSPAPERS
There's just something
comforting about a warm
blanket.
No matter what the reason,
once under that warmth and
softness cares seem to go away
-- at least for a while. With
the chill in the air, having a
blanket or afghan close by is
good idea.
Women and children who
find themselves seeking a
place to live for a while at the
Verde Valley Sanctuary are
greeted with an afghan of their
own, made by loving hands in
Sedona.
Members of the Comfort
Afghan Group meet the
second and fourth Thursday
of the month at the Sedona
S'hadows clubhouse at
9:30 a.m. to socialize and
crochet together to make
7-inch by 7-inch squares that
will become an afghan for the
sanctuary's shelter.
"Our group has been going
since 1991 and crocheted
or 'knitted more than 700
afghans -- all of
them went to the
shelter," leader
of the group Ann
Tedrick said. She
has crocheted with
the group for 10
years. "Everybody
who comes into
the shelter gets
one."
Like some of
the others in the
group, Tedrick has
crocheted since
she was a little
girl. Her grand- "
mother taught her.
As she single and
double crocheted
with variegated
blue yarn according to the
pattern for the day, Jill Suydam
said making the afghans gives
her satisfaction because she
' knows she is helping someone
feel a little better.
"I love to crochet and knit.
I like all fiber arts. Besides
helping all the gals at the
shelter, the squares are a fun
little project to take along. I
take them with me wherever I
go," Suydam said and grinned.
"Besides, it keeps US crocheting
now that all of our relatives
already have one."
Some of the women learned
to crochet once they joined the
group, like Dorothy McKenna.
She moved to Sedona about
five or six years ago and joined
right away because of the
group's goal.
"I think the shelter is a
wonderful thing to contribute
to. They do a lot of good things.
there," McKenna said. "Some
of the women and kids come
with just the clothes on their
"It's great to
learn a craft
and turn it into
a donation for a
good cause."
Jean Goodnough
Comfort Afghan
Group Member
back. They get to keep the
afghans."
Keeping the afghans ensures
the Comfort Afghan Group has
a reason to keep crocheting A
stack of squares in ivory, pink
and burgundy sat on the table
ready to assemble. "This was
a way to learn something new
and I like the socialization of
the people who like to do this
sort of thing," McKenna said.
For Eleanor Woodbeck,
joining in to make the afghans
completed lessons she learned
from her mother years ago.
"My mother taught me to
chain stitch, and that's'all she
taught me. I learned the rest
here," Woodbeck said. "Now, I
could do this all day."
The women complete an
afghan about every two weeks,
and make all different sizes
from infant to queen. Once thee-
learn the new pattern, they take
it home and complete squares
there They take turns putting
the squares together They
change the pattern so all of the
afghans don't look alike Some
people do not belong to the
group or have jobs and cannot
meet. with the others who make
squares and give them to one
of the members.
"The size depends on how
much coordinating yarn we
have," Jean Goodnough said,
who never did crochet until
Tedrick and the
others taught
her. "It's great
to learn a craft
and turn it into
a donation for a
good cause."
About 99
percent of the
yarn the group
uses is donated,
but each member
also puts a $1
in the jar to buy
yarn to fill in, if
necessary. The
yarn must also
be 100 percent
washable.
When Meg
Freir rck moved
to Sedona, she fouhd Suydam
and-asked if there was a knit-
ting or crochet group.
"She told me about this. I
love it, and I love why we do
it," Freimarck said.
,Nell Watts has crocheted practi-
cally all of her adult life, and likes
the idea of doing something good
for someone else -- someone she
will never meet.
"The people at the sanctuary
need something they can call
their own, and I enjoy having
a part in providing that," Watts
said. "When we get a few
afghans made, we send them to
Jane [Hausner]."
Hausner is the executive
director for the Verde Valley
Sanctuary, and said the women
in the Comfort Afghan Group
are wonderful. To have these
afghans tO give to the women
and children who come to the
shelter is very meaningful,
particularly that they were
handmade with love, she said.
"They are a wonderful gift
PhOtos by Tom Hood/Larson Newspapers
JILL SUYDAM and a group of women get together twice a month to
crochet blankets and shawls for the Verde Valley Sanctuary.
JILL SUYDAM stitches an afghan at the Sedona Shadows clubhouse
Thursday, Oct. 28.
on so many levels It's great for
them to have something brand
new to keep," Hausner said.
Sometimes a woman will
come to the shelter and give
birth while there Hausner
said they are elated to be able
to bring their new baby back
Wrapped in a brand new afghan.
Children will wear theirs as a
cape and run around the shelter
pretending to be a superhero.
"I'm so gla.d there are people
like this around. The afghans
are really loved and appre-
ciated, and blankets are so
symbolic," Hausner said.
For more information about
the crochet group, call Watts at
282-2325
Lu Stir can be reached at
282-7795, ext. 122, or e-mail
lu @larsonnewspapers.com
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