Yesterday was the first Remembrance Run locally, hosted by the Coast Guard.
It was an incredible tribute to fallen Coasties
and a terrific fundraiser for those spouses and children.
My family and many friends were happy to join them and look forward to next year!
One of my daughter's friends, who remembers my late husband, even flew in from Chicago for the weekend to join us in this event.
Knowing we like to craft she mentioned wanting to learn to crochet using plastic bags to make mats to donate to the homeless to go under their bedding.
Makes great sense to form a moisture barrier and the materials are free.
Well, I had heard of this and even filed away some directions and patterns for bags so today before her flight left I went over to my daughter's house and taught her how to crochet.
Here are the plastic bags being cut into strips...
Here you can see where the strips, which of course are actually loops now
are knotted together to form plastic yarn or plarn.
The plarn has then been wound into a ball and the lesson began.
She is a very quick study!
Meg got a great start to her first mat and we sent her off to security assuring her they would allow a large ball of plarn and a plastic crochet hook!
(I sure hope we were right)
What fun!
I got to 'hook' a new crocheter, try out a 'new' material, and who knows how many homeless will benefit all from one fun filled couple of hours!
So what did you do for Armed Forces Day/weekend?
