1. Grandma Ro’s Rainbow Cloud Blanket was finished by a Guinness World Record holder!

2. The effort that went into these puzzles… We hope you enjoy them! Download our birthday puzzle pages here! The answer key is here as well. :)

3. Birthday Gifts

Loose Ends is in an active campaign to raise $12,000 to launch a special video outreach project. Turns out, professional storytelling at this level is expensive, but we believe this short film will become one of the most powerful tools we have ever created. If Loose Ends has touched your life, we hope you’ll help us bring this project to life with a donation. Your support will make it possible for us to reach thousands more people who need our services.

As a way of saying thank you, now through the end of June, we’ll be sending small supporter gifts at select donation levels. These are not merchandise sales, but heartfelt thank-you gifts to recognize the generosity that sustains our mission.

*Apologies, at this time, we are only able to mail gifts to donors in the US and Canada

Donate $50

Donate $50 or more, and we'll send you an iron-on decal (black) as a small token of thanks. Just include your mailing address and choose your favorite design from the two options below. Decal dimensions are approximately 7" × 5”. Iron onto a shirt or fabric you love (not provided).

5. Birthday Party Goodie bag!
Click to download two fun patterns, free for two weeks only (suggested-but-not-required donation to Loose Ends at checkout).
Use Coupon Code: LOOSEENDS

Left: Grampa Socks by Alicia Plummer (for knitters). Right: Robot-Me-Not Lotus by Lisa Ha, @gettohookingcrochet (for crocheters).

6. Wicked fun time: Come watch A League of Their Own with the lights dimmed, eat popcorn, and get a free ball of yarn from Swansons Fabrics!

$5 from every ticket will be donated to Loose Ends.

7. The Legacy Quilt made her debut at H+H Americas

8. Thank you notes…

Special awe and thanks to Emily Davidson Design for building a nifty app that allows our Boston Loops to do outreach in bite-sized, manageable doses. This is going to revolutionize our outreach efforts! We are so grateful for your creative and thoughtful support!!

Special thanks to the Greater Boston Knitting Guild for your partnership as we focus on outreach in the Boston area, through Boston Loops. We love being in your orbit!!

Thank you, Purl Soho, for all of the ways you support Loose Ends: posting, donating, popping us atop your webpages and inviting our materials to your station at a Woolen Affair!

Thank you to Olde School Craft for incorporating a Loose Ends fundraiser into their textile exhibition and raising $500 for our organization!

Thank you, Knits & Pieces Annapolis, for including Loose Ends in your Knits and Spritz event!

Thank you, Christine B., LEP BFF, for joining us as Board Treasurer, modernizing our financial reporting, keeping us on task and up to date with every state and federal form, building out our new donor management platform, and patiently and generously showing up to teach, fix, and improve.

9. The following people had donations made in their honor or memory since our last newsletter.

Frank De Luca, Beth Davis, Sandy, Tammy Roach, Mary Thomas, Dolores Balke, Nana, Ruth Provance, Jonathan Roussos, Betty Root, Yannis Alimonos, Kathleen Hultquist, Pam Tomlin aka Nana, Sherrill Werling, Wendy Smith, Gerda Morda, Carla Reagin Ousby, my mother Albina Montione, Aunt Grace, Deborah Hardy, Vicki Schwam, Naomi Paget, Grandma Root, 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, Patti Carter, Lorelei Davis, Jean Grey & Betty Sanders, my models and encouragers, Carmela, Betty Gibbs, Amy Donley, Nannie Seamans, Jeanette Robinson, and Marvelous Marilyn my mom.