Newsies At long last my digital camera reappeared. My apology to those of you who sent items and donations while my camera was misplaced. All donations are appreciated and needed. Baby Threads is run 100% by volunteers and funded 100% by donation. We couldn’t do it without you.   Baby Threads again helped out with the Junior float for Berlin High School’s Home Coming Parade. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to get a picture of the float. It featured the Munsters. Baby Threads helped provide some costumes and material for the float skirting.   Blanche and Barbara from Ohio have been very busy. Three large boxes, loaded with afghans, baby clothing, and toddler sweaters recently arrived at Baby Threads. Below are just a few samples of their beautiful work.   Can you spare a can? Donations are needed for Thanksgiving food boxes. For those living out of the area who would like to help, cash donations and gift cards may be mailed to: Baby Threads of NH PO Box 713 Belmont, NH 03220 We hope to be able to lots of food boxes for the needy and homeless. Thank you.   Here are some of the Interlake Seniors showing off donations for Baby Threads. Kathy, (one of our volunteers), would appreciate prayers for her husband Michael. He is currently in ICU. We hope Michael will be able to have a speedy recovery.   Thank you to Lisa and Karen for coming up with suggestions on how to package up our Christmas stockings and gift baskets. We hope the gift baskets and Christmas stockings will bring joy to many people in NH. There will be stockings/gifts for babies, children, teens, seniors in nursing homes or homebound, and special packages for the homeless.   Barbara has been sending baby and toddler hats every month. Here are some of her latest hats. Thank you Barbara. Ida has gone home for the winter. Here are some of the sweater sets she crocheted while spending her summer in Meredith. Thank you to all who have donated winter clothing. Today, while I was volunteering at the Laconia shop, several homeless folks came in looking for warm clothing. One of the men found the perfect coat. It was thick and warm. He left the shop very happy. If anyone has snow pants they no longer need we would appreciate them. There are many folks in need of them. Winter boots, mittens/gloves, and coats are also needed.   Here are a few of the hats donated at the Chichester shop. We want to make sure as many folks as possible have warm hats to wear this winter. Ellen brought these afghans into the Chichester shop while I was volunteering there. She told me she loves making the baby afghans. She said they are very easy to make. (Maybe that is after you have practiced for many years!) Jokie has reached a new milestone. As of this writing she has completed 165 afghans since Jan. 2008. I asked if I could get a photo of her with the 165th afghan. She said maybe tomorrow. She had to catch the bus in a few minutes. Guess where she was going? To purchase 1 more skein of yarn for an afghan.   Speaking of afghans, a friend from Altrusa came in to let us know that her son was in ICU. We asked if we could send him a comfort blanket. She replied “only if it is yellow”. I took her back to see if the bright and beautiful afghan Jokie had just completed would work. It was later reported to us that when the young man saw the afghan he said “that’s my yellow.” It really helped to brighten up his spirits and his hospital room.   The 635 Christmas stockings for the military have begun their journey. 235 were sent to Oregon, 100 to Indiana, 50 to Michigan, and 250 were sent to San Diego, CA. The stockings will be filled by volunteers and sent on to the troops. Thank you Meredith Village Savings Bank volunteers, Fran, and Olive. We hope they will lets the troops know that we are thinking about them.