Tell About KAS - Become Part of the Chain Reaction Afghan Project

Hi all - Interweave Press is doing a crochet-along afghan squares project, posted here back in March, below. I've included the URL and some of the details from the Crochet Me site. They are publishing patterns for 12" squares in their magazine starting with Summer 2010, then folks are invited to post pictures of the squares they make at their Gallery, and also share about their favorite charities -- "Throughout the project, you can share your stories of making community afghans in the Forum. We're hoping to ignite a Chain Reaction of crocheting afghans for community giving. To get you started, we've listed some charities that accept blankets in our Craftivism column in the Spring issue. Please share your own favorite charities in the Forum."

Here's a great opportunity for us to share the news about KAS to other charity crocheters in their Forum (knitters are welcome to share too!). It's not fully loaded yet, it sounds like they will have the forum up this week some time. I'll come back and post updates as I find them.

And subscribers to the magazine can take the 12" patterns and modify them to be 8" in size for our KAS squares. :-)


http://www.crochetme.com/blogs/crochet_me/archive/2010/03/22/become...


Become Part of the Chain Reaction Afghan Project

"It's more than an afghan — it's a Chain Reaction!

What does that mean? Well, recently, I went to our local blanket-making day for Project Linus, which donates handmade blankets to kids in need, in hospitals, safe houses and traumatic situations. There, I met a woman who has been without a job for 18 months—it's the very first thing she told me about herself, so clearly it weighs on her. During that time, she has made about a dozen blankets and given about half of them away. (There's one she can't ever part with, she says. She's fallen in love with it —that happens). She crochets to save her sanity, she said. And she gives her crocheted blankets away because she can. Because it makes her feel better to help someone in worse need than she is just by doing the thing she loves.
That's the energy behind our Chain Reaction Afghan Project. In this yearlong project, we're bringing together—in a single afghan—squares designed by your favorite crochet designers and squares designed by you. When the final afghan is put together, we'll auction it for charity.

In each of the Summer and Fall issues, we'll publish patterns for five squares by your favorite crochet designers. Each square reflects the designer's unique take on crochet, and you're sure to learn a new technique or two as you crochet the squares. (After you make the squares, you can post pictures of your version in the Gallery)

And, here's where your own creative force comes into play: At the same time, we're inviting you to post pictures of your own original designs in the Submission Gallery. In August, we'll select a batch of squares to consider for publication. CrochetMe members will vote on the top ten squares, and we'll publish the patterns for those ten squares in the Winter 2010 and Spring 2011 issues. The completed afghan will be published in the Summer 2011 issue.

Throughout the project, you can share your stories of making community afghans in the Forum. We're hoping to ignite a Chain Reaction of crocheting afghans for community giving. To get you started, we've listed some charities that accept blankets in our Craftivism column in the Spring issue. Please share your own favorite charities in the Forum. "