Some new spring caps

Here are some new caps that were sent to Joyce.

New places, faces, and caps

Our project is going very well. We have a couple of new places to bring caps, Richardson Regional Medical Center, Parkland Hospital in Dallas and Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Tomorrow caps will be delivered to Baylor Hospital where they showed an interest in our caps. Two new ladies came into the center today. One of them has a friend who is the sister to Robin Roberts. Robin's sister is in New Orleans where she is also a TV broadcaster. We were pretty excited about that. She's going to tell her about our project.
While we were at the center, a cancer survivor called to thank us for the caps that she received. She just loves them and wanted us to know. I got a thank you note from one of the ladies that I sent caps to in MI. She, too, was really excited about her caps and she wanted us to know that the cancerous tumor is shrinking. That was good to hear too.
We're making spring/summer caps and I think that we're going to have to make more. Oh, we also will be going to a nursing home to find knitters and crocheters!

Our Story Was on line in the Lion Brand website

Here is the story as it was originally entered into the Lion Brand Website.
Vivian and I were having tea with Joyce, our friend who had gone through chemotherapy, her hair growing back nicely. We were sitting at the Allen Senior Recreation Center in Allen TX. Vivian and I were knitting. Joyce told us that when she was undergoing chemo, she had a cap to wear to bed after she lost her hair. She said that the seams were kind of painful when she slept in it. She said that the caps helped because the skin is so tender after the hair loss. Vivian went home and looked up chemo caps on the internet. She found a website with patterns for knitting and crocheting. A few days later, she brought the patterns in. We were so excited to see that we could do something to help those that would need the caps. So we started to knit and crochet. We knew that we needed really soft yarn and we found the Lion Brand yard at the Hobby Lobby store. Others at the center asked what we were doing. They wanted to join our little group. Two weeks later we had 30 hats. We brought them to the McKinney Cancer Center in McKinney TX. They were thrilled to see the different colors and patterns of the caps. There wasn't anyone in the reception area when four of us brought the caps there. Two women came in and had their caps on. When we showed them the caps we brought, they were really excited about them and each picked a cap out. They replaced their caps with the new ones. It was so nice to see the smiles on their faces. One of the ladies had the same situation with her cancer that Joyce did and Joyce was able to share how well she has done since then. The pictures we took showed the smiles on, we who could give and those that benefited from our caps. We are going to continue to make the caps and bring them to the cancer center. We were so humbled by the experience and found something that we can do for others to make their day a little brighter. One never knows when she may be in the same situation.

Spring Caps

Now that spring and summer are approaching, our knitters and crocheters are making light, soft (as usual) and springy caps. And we're even making flowers to put on the caps. Hmmm, maybe Mary can make butterflies too! Do you remember when all the ladies wore fashionable hats? Now our 'cappers' can wear beautiful caps for Easter or for just strutting their stuff in their spring caps. Here is a picture of a few of our completed spring caps.

Joyce

Joyce is feeling pretty perky lately. We tease her and tell her that she's getting bossy. We love it though because it shows that she's able to take a more active part in our project. She's going to be our PR person for sending out cards, printing and mailings. Oh, and she's trying to learn how to crochet!! Now that's really an accomplishement!!

Another interview

We were interviewed by Nancy Pacheco yesterday. She is the editor of some of the communitie newspapers in and around Allen. It was a good interview and we should expect to see articles in the April editions. We think that this will generate an interest by knitters and crocheters, expecially some of the elderly ladies living in senior communities that know how to knit but don't really have much to knit. The caps don't take long and they should enjoy completing something that can be used by chemo patients, giving of themselves even in their late years.

Letter from the Office of Robin Roberts of WFAA

We sent some caps to Robin Roberts, the news commentator on WFAA who was diagnosed with cancer and has been undergoing chemotherapy. Following is a letter of thanks that we received from her office:

Hello!Robin wishes that she was able to thank everyone personally. Robin has received the wonderful chemo caps along the letter that you sent and they have truly lifted her spirits. She would like to thank you for thinking of her during this time and wants you to know that you too are in her thoughts and prayers. Robin appreciates you support, encouragement and thoughtfulness.Thank you very much.Sincerely, Sonny Mullen