04/29/2026
Handmade’s Mother’s Day shipping was spectacular. We shipped 2,740 comfort scarves, 62 shawls, 60 hats, and 190 amigurumi to 65 shelters for abused and homeless women. It was a whirlwind. Yesterday, Chris N, Sharon A and I packed up boxes for the smaller shelters; today Chris N, Ann and I finished up with the boxes for the bigger shelters. We had only 6 wrapped scarves left over. We did it!
Last Friday’s wrapping party made today’s shipping possible. We had a lot of scarves to wrap—a literal mountain, as you can see in the photos below—and we wrapped them all. Thank you so much.
We used the scarves we wrapped on Friday to fill the boxes yesterday. Today we emptied the shed of the scarves stowed away for future use. The future was today. And we’re not quite done. After we finished, Ann and I found a bag of hats I had set aside for a shelter that requested 100 scarves. But we didn’t have any more scarves, or so we thought. We did have a bin with unwrapped scarves that we apparently missed wrapping last Friday. Sharon A dropped in to help me wrap them. She also brought unwrapped scarves from boxes she had recently opened. Evelyn came by to pick up kits. She brought a bag filled with finished scarves. We’ll wrap them and include them in the box for this shelter. I turned in all the scarves I had finished that hadn’t been wrapped. Elizabeth will wrap scarves she had set aside for quality check. Voila. Almost 100 scarves. Amazing. We have so many dedicated participants. Thank you all so much. ( Tomorrow I will send the scarves and hats to the shelter we overlooked. Their numbers are not included in today’s shipping numbers. Wow!)
Now we need more scarves. Why do we need them? Didn’t we just make and ship a zillion (or at least 2,740)? Can’t we just sit back and relax for a while? We must be realistic. It took a lot of work on all our parts to make all the scarves we shipped today. We will need an equal or greater number for back to school and holiday. But our inventory is ZERO. We need to replenish so we’ll have scarves enough to send to the shelters for those occasions, always our biggest shipping. We have plenty of hats, so please concentrate on making scarves. It feels so good to provide every shelter with the number of scarves (and hats) they requested. We don’t want to let any of them down. KEEP YOUR NEEDLES CLICKING. Remember, every scarf counts, especially YOURS.
Thanks to all of you who made this great shipping possible.
Send your finished scarves (hats, blankets, shawls, $$$$, yarn) to: Handmade Especially for You c/o Leslye Borden
30065 Grandpoint Lane
Rancho Palos Verdes CA 90275
Handmade is a 501©3 non-profit charity. We send receipts for all donations. Thanks in advance.
Love,
Leslye
