myspace

Okay, the day that I should have written this post has come and gone, but here it is anyway:

We Polychromatic Purlers now have a myspace!! Amanda started it up but now we're all doing our part to keep the site up and running. So, if any of you have a myspace, check out our site! Our myspace URL is http://www.myspace.com/polychromatic_purlers . We've got some nice music and a cute background, but we want to have soooo much more. The goal of the site is to reach a wider number of people and get them into our cuase.

Hope to see you there!

~Danielle

ps-Don't worry; our Blogger will still be up and running.

blogger = a place to put all of our updates (more professional)
myspace = a place to keep in touch with all of the Polychromatic Purlers (more social)

The List of Ideas

Here it is, the list you've all been waiting for! Maybe....

These are the things that Celia, Ross, and I thought should be done differently next year around:

• brighter colors should be used on the garments (it makes them waaaay more noticable)
• we need to start making garments much earlier than December (we were thinking October would be a great time to start)
• we need to go to more places than just the Plaza (Independence Square, Downtown KC, Crown Center, and Westport were some ideas)
• contact should be made to news crews way in advance, so that they might do a story on it or something

~Danielle

ps-We'd love to make this list longer. If you guys think of anything that we should do differently please leave a comment. Thanks!!!!

Congratulations, everyone!!!!

The day has come and passed, and it was AMAZING, was it not? The small group that I went with hit the Country Club Plaza, and left a total of 14 items, plus a large number of CareStitch cards tied to poles and trees. If you'd like to see one of the items we left, look down, because we got a picture in the paper!!!

Yeah, that's right, that's a picture of the statue that wore one of Ross' (a great Polychromatic Purler) scarves. This was in the Local section of the KC Star's Wednesday paper. I'm not kidding you! We didn't get a story, but this is still something, people! The more news we get spreading about us, the more people we can round up to help us raise awareness on child abuse.

Slowly but surely, we will make a difference.

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I wanna thank all of you guys for taking time out of your busy schedules to knit something spectacular and display it in public, with one of our CareStitch cards. We can't do much of anything without your help, so thanks a million! I hope that all of you decide to stick around for a very long time; this season may be over, but now we've gotta start planning for next year!

Speaking of which: if any of you have suggestions for what we could do better the next time around, please tell us. I'll make a list of ideas that Celia, Ross, and myself thought up yesterday and I'll post them on the site tomorrow.

~Danielle,
founder of the Polychromatic Purlers

ps-the next couple of posts will include some stories from Polychromatic Purlers and their exploits that went on yesterday (some pictures included). If you have a story you'd like to share, email it to me at puppydls@hotmail.com and I'll be sure to put it on the blog soon. Happy knitting!