"My mother had a hand in it, I'm sure of it...
I felt a peace with my mother's death
that I hadn't been able to find before." (Project Recipient)

1. “We loved her to the moon and back.”

"It’s hard to put into words how special my mom (Kathy) was. She was kind and darling and took care of everyone, even during her 9-year battle with cancer. She championed through chemo and multiple surgeries to continue creating. Her final days were spent coloring and watching her favorite shows and movies (Jane Austin romances).

2. Why Our Donors Give:

1. "I have way too much yarn and almost bought more. Instead, I donated."

2. "I wanted someone else to have this feeling, too."

3. "The look on her face when I returned her mother's quilt was priceless."

4. "I know I'll leave unfinished projects someday. I want Loose Ends to be there for my family."

5. “In memory of my mom.”

Every donation you make helps us match more volunteers with unfinished handwork left behind by loved ones.

If you've been meaning to give, now's the time.

3. Loose Ends, a video game: Try it out!

Alanna Okun (b. Boston, MA 1990) is a writer, textile artist, and game designer. Her work concerns the connections between craft, creativity, and computation. Her most recent projects center on electronics, textiles and interactive storytelling (often at the same time). She creates small, personal video games exploring what it means to be a person in the world, and uses handmaking practices — particularly knitting — to understand and interrogate code, circuitry, and digital technology. She is the author of two books: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting (Macmillan 2018) and Knit a Hat: A Beginner’s Guide to Knitting (Abrams 2020).

4. Applications are open for three seats on Loose Ends’ Board of Directors

5. Become a Loose Ends Ambassador

Do you love the mission of Loose Ends and have a few hours to give each month?

We're looking for volunteer ambassadors to introduce more people to Loose Ends and our work.

Extroverts: we'll provide everything you need to give short, engaging presentations at libraries, senior centers, guilds, and community events. We'll also send you postcards to mail, organizations to email, and other simple outreach projects you can do from home.

Every new volunteer, project owner, and donor starts with someone hearing about Loose Ends for the very first time. You can help make that happen. Learn more about becoming a Loose Ends ambassador here.

6. Some of the projects submitted so far this month:

6. In Memory, In Honor & In Lieu of Flowers

The following people had donations made in their honor or memory since our last newsletter: Aunt Judy, Phyllis Statham, Jonathan Roussos, Yannis Alimonos, Edna Ford, Kathleen Hultquist, Sherrill Werling, Helen Stalions and Joanna Parks, Gerda Morda, Krissy Lanni, Carla Reagin Ousby, Shirley Kuhlman, my mother, Albina Montione, Barbara Futej, Aunt Grace, Deborah Hardy, Barb and Rosella, Pat Binnette, Vicki Schwam, Grandma Root, Emily Doyon, in memory of Dorothy Pyle Cochran Stauffer, who inspired me to love others through food and yarn, Grandma, whose knitting supplies went to the local library, Gramma Derry, Sue Brandenburg, Mary Alice Love, Jayne Barry, Lorelei Davis, Jean Grey and Betty Sanders, my models and encouragers, Carmela, Betty Gibbs, Providence Hoffer (my mom), Esther Cassel Shearer, Amy Donley, Nannie Seamans, Jeanette Robinson, Patricia Hooper, Beth Davis, Sandy, Mary Thomas, Dolores Balke, Edna Mae Pennington Hampton, Sharon Farnsworth, Katie Behe, Vera Sullivan, my incredibly creative mom, Sandra K. Hohman, Susan Landsman, Nana, Ruth Provance.