ANGEL HUGS April 2019 Newsletter Issue 202

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 2 - Hoodies 8 - Small Toys Hello Angels, 20 - Afghans Thank you for all your dedication, time 1 - Hat and Bootie Set and hard work to knit and crochet 2 - Hats items for children, teens and adults 1 - Bootie facing life threatening illness, trauma and abuse. All the hugs you put into your handmade Open Door items makes the greatest difference in someone 25 - Adult hats else’s life in need. 26 - Child hats Thank you for being an Angel Hugs Volunteer. You 3 - headbands are truly a living Angel. 1 - Shawl “Your hands are GOLDEN. Thank you for all that 27 - Hats and scarfs you do!” 1 - Hat and mitts With Heartfelt Thanks, Florence 1 - Mitts 11 – Scarfs 10 - Child/Toddler sweaters MARCH DONATIONS 3 - Toys Barb B. Ian Anderson 3 - blankets Credit Valley NICU 3 - lapghans 1 – Preemie hat 3 - Blankets POP TAB COLLECTION Credit Valley Cancer We are continuing to collect tabs off 2 - Chemo hats cans. There are SEVERAL wheelchairs and walkers, available for FREE to anyone who Renal needs them. 4 – blankets

Credit Valley Birthing Unit Contact Sheldon McLean 647-207-3084 16 - Pea Pods Let’s keep on collecting!

Interim Place DATES TO REMEMBER 2 - Shawls 2 - Hat & scarf set Angel Hugs Meetings 2018 - 2019 4 - Hat & mitts set 1 - Hat, cowl & mitts set May 5, 2019 June 2, 2019 7 - Scarves 9 - Blankets 1 – Home basket 4 - Toys 14 – Dish cloths 2 - Hats Cathy T. - April 7 Marianne W. - 1999 Edith B. - April 7 Katherine P. - 2006 Bridgeway Marg B. - April 7 Lesley H. - 2012 6 - Afghan, Sweater, Hat and Bootie sets Suzanne V. - April 13 Margaret M. - 2016 24 - Sweater and Hat sets Pina S. - April 16 Pina S. - 2016 24 - Small Toys Margaret M. - April 23 32 - Afghans Bonnie G. - April 24

Birthright CEREAL BAG COLLECTION 1- Cape Don't forget to bring in your donations of cereal 13 - Sweater and Hat Sets bags. They will be sent to Terracycle to be recycled. 4 - Sweaters There is a minimum 200 bag shipment and Angel 2 - Poncho and Hat sets Hugs will receive 2 cents per bag. ANGEL HUGS April 2019 Newsletter Issue 202

LUCKY DUCKY DRAW instances when they are stopped, bombers say, the police are more likely to laugh at them than The Lucky Ducky Draw is a successful issue a summons. fundraiser for our Yarn Account and we Ms. Prain once tried to yarn bomb a sign post in plan to hold one every month. If you Washington, in front of F.B.I. headquarters. A have something at home that you think security guard wearing a bulletproof vest might be a good Draw prize and would approached her, she said, and demanded that she like to donate it to the table, please connect with stop immediately. “Ma’am,” she recalled him saying, Susan by email to discuss it further. Items for the “step away with the .” table should be in mint condition. Yarn related items Still, seems to be having its moment would be ideal, but we would be happy to consider in pop culture. Fortune 500 companies have paid anything that would "sell". Susan's email address is Ms. Sayeg as much as $20,000 to wrap their wares [email protected]. Please use Angel Hugs, in yarn. Toyota hired her to knit a Prius a Christmas or Lucky Ducky draw in the subject line. sweater last year for a promotional video. The makers of the Smart car flew her to to wrap a car in what looked like 1970s-inspired throw blankets, and Mini Cooper recently commissioned a ANGEL CORNER similar ad. Ms. Sayeg has so much work that she closed her shop in 2009, moved to Austin and turned her hobby Magda Sayeg, a 37-year-old Texan is considered by into a full-time job. Clients have included the many to be the mother of yarn bombing. By her Montague Street Business Improvement District in recollection, it started on a slow day in 2005 at Raye, Brooklyn, which paid Ms. Sayeg to knit covers for 69 her quirky boutique in . On a lark, she parking meters, and Insight, an Australian company knitted a blue-and-pink cozy for the shop’s door that sells surfing clothing, which has an ad featuring handle, a piece she now calls “alpha.” a scantly clad woman riding a yarn-covered scooter. Passers-by loved it, stopping to admire her Last month, Ms. Sayeg wrapped all the heating handiwork. “People got out of their cars just to ducts at the Brooklyn offices of Etsy.com. come look at it,” she said. Companies seem to be attracted to the retro Next, she knitted what looked like a leg warmer for a handcrafted cheeriness of yarn. Toyota chose Ms. stop sign down the street; from there she slowly Sayeg for the Prius sweater project because her infiltrated Houston with her stitchery. Within a few work is “optimistic and community oriented,” Sona years, she had tagged dozens of lampposts and Iliffe-Moon, a marketing executive for Toyota, wrote stop signs and assembled a crew of fellow yarn in an e-mail. bombers she called Knitta Please. Ms. Sayeg now has five assistants to help her knit, Soon, Ms. Sayeg was commissioned to do larger which she now does primarily on looms rather than projects. Photographs of her pieces spread online, needles to meet the demand.“In the early years I inciting other knitters to take up the budding art identified with underground artists,” she form. said. “Now the very people I feared I would get in Yarn bombing grows out of the larger D.I.Y. trouble with are the ones inviting me to do this work movement, which seeks to resurrect traditional for them.” handicrafts “more typically associated with Condensed from grandmothers, like knitting, canning, gardening and https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/fashion/creatin even raising chickens,” said Annette DiMeo g-graffiti-with-yarn.html Carlozzi, a curator at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Tex. In March it commissioned Ms. Sayeg to CONTACT US cover the trunks of 99 trees in front of the museum. Have a question, suggestions for our website or You see the resurgence of handicrafts in art, too,” wish to put something in the newsletter contact: Ms. Carlozzi said. “It is part of the appeal of yarn President – Flo P. 647-928-8133 bombing: the surprising juxtaposition of something [email protected] that is clearly personal, labor-intensive and Donations/Website – Barb B. 416-821-0132 handmade in an urban, industrial environment.” Member’s area password – Yarn1998 Whether yarn bombing is the work of artists or [email protected] glorified knitters, the view of law enforcement is Membership – Filomena S. 647-551-4596 clear: it is considered or littering. Still, [email protected] the police seem to tolerate it. Yarn bombers say Newsletter – Debbie B. 905-858-9331 they rarely have run-ins with the law. And in the few [email protected]