Pink Project

	A little while ago Elaine, a friend from the Knitters Guild in Sydney, sent me a few lovely pink ‘scrumbles’ that she had made for a project that didn’t go ahead. She was wondering what else could be done with them, and so now we have decided to use them to start off a fundraiser for breast cancer research. First round of the Auction NOW ON Bidding closes March 9 See the auction page for details.
Remembering how much fun I had when I was piecing together all the patches and motifs contributed for the 'coat of many Scrumbles' project (using hundreds of freeform patches contributed by members of the International Freeform Crochet Guild), I am again volunteering to join everything together for another group project - this time to create a range of things like handbags, scarves, cushions or whatever, which we will eventually auction off (on-line, later this year) to raise money for cancer research.
	So please join us and contribute a scrumble or two of your own to the ‘pink project' Now you can laugh if you want, and say…‘hmmm, so that is how Prudence manages to create so many things - she gets other people to do the knitting and crochet’ ;-) and yes, that is exactly what will happen this time, but hopefully we will be able to put together a good range of interesting pieces, and the funds raised will go to a good cause. 100% of the money raised will be donated to breast cancer research.
If you are an experienced freeformer I hope that you will be able to manage a small scrumble or two; if you have never freeformed before, it will be a good excuse for you to have a go, without feeling the need to plan a complete project yourself. Your pieces can be made using knitting or crochet or a combination of both crafts together, or you might even like to incorporate other crafts like felting, beading, embroidery etc as well. There are no ‘rules', apart from the fact that, if you are overseas, then you shouldn’t use any feathers or seeds or the like (as the Australian quarantine people won’t let your pieces into the country when you mail to me)…and there is no rush to create your pieces; none of the stitching up will begin until after mid-year (2008) Once you have completed your pieces, mail them off to me: Prudence Mapstone P O Box 5242 Daisy Hill, Qld., 4127 Australia The following people have already contributed to the Pink Project: Elaine Dewey (Australia) Myra Wood (USA) Margaret Hubert (USA) Ingerlise Lebech (Denmark) Pirkko Vega (Canada) Pam Shore (USA) Jorel Thomson (USA) Cindy Adams (USA) Perry Lowell Bent (USA) Christine Jones (Australia) Nancilyn Kroushl (USA) Carlyn McCabe (USA) Bonnie Prokopowicz (USA) Leslie Nelle-Urinyi (USA) Ingrid Brundin (Sweden) Carol Durdin (USA) Lisa Randolph (USA) Gloria Chukman (USA) Jan Eaton (UK) Alia Smith (USA) Tina Jorgensen (Denmark) Barbara Weller (Australia) Katherine Jackson (UK) Lindsay Waldon (USA) Anne Higham (UK) Barbara Wunder Hynes (USA) Jean C (Australia) Ute Mader (France) Renate Kirkpatrick (Australia) Mary Harney (USA) Pauline Fitzpatrick (UK) Helen Jordan (UK) Ildi Szabo (UK) Geraldine McGovern (Australia) Pearl Gill (USA) Ann Bergman (USA) Nic (Nickerjac) (UK) Sue (WyeSue) (UK) Jocelyne Bouilliot (France) Anne Raisis (USA) Karen Managh (New Zealand) Pam Birchley (Australia) Suzanne Barr (UK) Dinie Gaemers (Australia) Deb Ellis (USA) Kathleen Bushman (USA) Jane Flower (Australia) Anita Gian (USA) Kathleen Lyons (USA) Kate Torode (UK) 'Pamella' (USA) K. Shelberg (Australia) Meg Firman (Australia) Bonnie Pierce (USA) Catherine Davies ('Labcat') (USA) Beth Mattern (USA) Peggy Baxter (USA) 'Knitlich' (USA) Diane Halpern (USA) Marie Christine Gosse (France) Mel Gill (USA) Lena Thiel (Sweden) Denise de Montreuil (Canada) Members of the Leeds/Bradford branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild (UK) Anne Lalor (Australia) Sue Going (Australia) Pauline Tonkin (Australia) Joan Springer (USA) Marlene Miller (Australia) Margaret Dorn + 13 members of the Hunter Breast Cancer Support Group 32 (Australia) Hilary Metcalf (Australia) Sheryl Kingsley (Australia) Baiba Pilane + members of the ‘Musturklubs’ knitting group (Latvia) Gwen Lawrence (Australia) Betty Cornish (Australia) Nancy Karas (Australia) Judy Falkner (Australia) Eleanor Goldfinch (Australia) Carolyn Murtagh (Australia) Gail Sammons (USA) Mimi (USA) Carmen (Melonhead Knitwear) (Canada) Karen Van Niejenhuis (Canada) The girls from the Beehive Yarn Store, Victoria, BC (Canada) Hélöise Gosse (France) Kay Arrowsmith (Australia) Nerida Kennedy (Australia) Norma Bonham (Australia) Joyce Mansur (Australia) Mavis Duncan (Australia) Jan Kirk (Australia) Anne Moore (Australia) Barbara Moulds (Australia) Dorothy Pickard (Australia) Smila Smithers (Australia) Katherine Ireland (Australia) Susan Bennett (aka ColorDiva), USA Louise Garwood, Australia Janine Collins, Australia Avryl Kavic, Australia Lee Harper, Australia Elizabeth Ireland, Australia Members of the Reading Branch of the Knitting & Crochet Guild, UK Rosie Sykes (aka caughtknitting), UK Ellie McDonale (aka ellbell), Australia Ronda Bergin, Australia Jane Steele, Australia Maggie Wingett, Australia Lynn Hall, Australia Phyllis Sandford, USA Sue Mainwaring, UK Marie-Christine Lemaitre, France Annabel Logan, Australia Alex Logan, Australia Sandra Barnier-Jimenez, France Valda Hooghiemster, Australia A. Tomlinson, Australia Margaret McBirney, New Zealand Lou Bor, Australia Linde Merrick, UK Valerie Elliott & members of the Handknitters Guild Inc (Vic), Australia Colleen Edgar (aka knit2togtbl), UK Megan Jack, Australia Barb Beukema & members & friends of the Victoria Knitters’ Guild BC (Canada) Paulette Jones, USA Antonina Kuznetsova, Ukraine Paula Isfeld, USA Stephanie Donoghue (aka queenofdreamsz), USA Stacey Westling, USA Jacqui Simmons, Australia Jane Whitten, Australia First round of the Auction NOW ON – Bidding closes March 9 See the auction page for details.