June 23, 2009

The first month of our new year was a busy one in which the Circle has really grown.

We were on two local TV newscasts and you all looked wonderful.

We donated 1026 handcrafted fabricworks to: Ben Taub, Memorial Hermann, Children’s Memorial Hermann, M.D.Anderson, St. Luke’s, Triumph Memorial Hermann Hospitals, The Concierge Nursing Home, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church and our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We added three new hospitals. Memorial Hermann Southwest, TIRR and Spring Branch Medical Center.

Our website is receiving between 125-150 visits a day. Be sure to visit and post your comments at www.thecommonthreadcircle.org.

We need some of you to volunteer to cut out material and others of you to sew it at home. The designs would include bears and baby blankets.

We continue to meet on Mondays at Town and Country Starbucks and are very thankful to Charles Peirsol for his hospitality.

We will meet at my home on July 8 to knit and crochet, share patterns and ideas.

We will meet at MDUMC in Room D220 at 9:30a.m. on July 21.

Thank you for helping make our group such a success.

Thanks also to Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, its head minister Dr. Chuck Simmons, and minister Dr. Suzanne Cox Reedstrom for their help and support.