More Bags and Squares Received

 

 

We received 3 big squares from mbak Yenny - Bandung. And from 2 of her squares, we already join, add the bag strap and sew the zipper, and you can see the results here. Thank you mbak Yenny, the squares are very beautiful.

 

    And this is another bag that is joined from small squares. Mbak Fenny uses 4 small squares and added stripes motif to fill in the squares. Thank you mbak Fenny, you do a great job!.

 

So far, we only finisihed 4 bags, still many to go. We are waiting for your squares any size would be fine.

 

Few more weeks left, many bags need to make, let's work together.

Donations Received and Progress on School Bag Project

Here are a few updates on our urgent school bag project.

• Mbak Thata has made 1 bag from  modification of pattern 1, she also made some other big squares which she modified from patttern 1. 

• We received more squares from Arleen - Jakarta. She made 2 squares from pattern 2, and 2 big squares which she modified from pattern 1.

• We received some other donations such as 6 balls of yarns from Rika (Rp 60.000), and money to buy about 9 balls of yarns from Mas Gogon (Rp.90.000). Both Rika and Mas Gogon are Amanda's friend who wants to participate on our project but cannot do crochet or knitting. Right now Amanda also working on the 6 balls of yarn to make more squares. The rest of the yarn will be used for joining the squares. Recently our yarn coordinators using their own yarn to join the squares as their donations.
• We received 12 balls of yarn from Surabaya but the sender wants to be anonym.
• We received one roll of bag strap from Mbak Fenny. We need the bag strap to make sure the bag can carry more books and also to accelerate the finishing products . One pack of bag strap is around (Rp. 45.000)
• We received donations to buy 60 strap fasteners (Rp 60.000), we also bought 120 ring and also 60 zipper for the bag but right now we use the money from one of us. The zipper price is Rp 1.000 per piece and the for 120 ring (60 pairs) we spent Rp 60.000. If you want to donate money to pay our member's money back, we are very thankful to you.

Currently some of our members are working on more bigger squares (modification from pattern 1), but still, we are short of number. We are invite you to join us on making squares, joining the squares and make it as bag, or even make bags from the squares and we only need to add the straps. This project will be finish on the end of July 2008, so we only have a few more weeks left.

 

Thank you for Mbak Thata, Arleen, Rika, Mas Gogon, Amanda and Mbak Fenny with your support. Let's work together on this charity project. Let's do it with empathy not only sympathy.

Urgent Project

There is a new education system in our country. Now, we have some elementary schools (we called it Sekolah Dasar) where anyone can be a student for "free". Our government arrange this to make all of Indonesian children could have a basic knowledge.

In this school the teachers are social workers. They teach for free. They're great people who want to take a part with our education system. We really appreciate what they did.

We know one of this this school from one of our friend (Lenny) who has taught a "yubiami class". It's a success project. They really excited with this new craft. Easy to make but could make the children creative. They can make their toys for themselves.

Lenny has shared her story with us and it make us want to do something. We want to make "a surprise gift " for all students in this school. They're our next generation. We want to motivate them to reach their dreams, don't give up easily. Doesn't matter who you're if you have a dream you can reach it.

Right now, like many elementary students in general, they need a school bag, pencils, books, etc. We think with your support .. we could make an "express" project together... a little surprise for them... Make a shoulder bag for each of them.

We'll joint 8 squares together to make one bag. We need many people to make squares and join them too. This school has 65 students. So we need about 520 squares.

We have received some squares right now. We plan to make baby blankets in our next project. But with this extra ordinary case.. please be understand... we'll use your squares for this bag project first.

We still need many squares.. We really appreciate if you want to take a part in this project. Make some squares or joining them. We wait for all of you in our yahoo groups.

We'll post the report if we has given all the bags to them and take some pictures.

Frequently Asked Questions

There are many questions regarding how to join and what to do first to join this group and also how to take a part in this charity if they cannot do crochet. We try to make a post to answer the frequently asked questions.

 

1.	Q:	I can do crochet and knitting, how to take a part in this group?
	A:	You can join our mailing list
2.	Q:	I want to take a part but I cannot do crochet or knitting, do you receive other donations?
	A:	We are very appreciate any kind of donations, we need yarn to join all the squares, and sometimes we also need to buy accessories for the products from squares, for example for the school bags project, we need to buy the strap.
3.	Q:	If I want to donate money, where can I transfer the money?
	A:	If you are live in Indonesia you can transfer to Craft And Me BCA Account no 6070308311 on behalf of Rini cab, Bina Mulia Kuningan. If you are not from Indonesia, you can send through Paypal. Please contact us and we'll give you our Paypal number.
4.	Q:	I already join the group, where can I get the pattern?
	A:	First, please fill in the database contributors. Choose one pattern at a time. You can choose another pattern after you send 2 squares to us. Then, you can download the pattern from the files section in our yahoogroups, and wait until the password is sent to you.
5.	Q:	I already received the pattern and the password, when is the deadline to send the squares?
	A:	Unless we have urgent project, we don't have any deadline. But we will really appreciate if you send the squares as soon as possible after you received the password.
6.	Q:	Can I send more than 2 squares per pattern?
	A:	We are always welcome if you are willing to send more than 2 squares. If you want to send more than 1 times also okay.
7.	Q:	What kind of yarn/thread do I need to make the square?
	A:	It is  up to you. Cotton thread or baby yarn is okay. Because our main project is blanket, just make sure you do not use the type of yarn that make feels itchy when someone use the blanket :) .
8.	Q:	I already made the square, but the size is not the same as instructed in the pattern, is it okay to send them?
	A:	It's okay, we still can arrange the squares with different sizes. But if you can make the size as instructed in the pattern, it will make easier for us in the joining process.

 

 

We will update this F.A.Q when there are more questions need answers. We hope this could help to answers your questions too.

New Squares Received from Arleen

These are the squares that we received today. Arleen from Jakarta made these squares. She made 4 squares for pattern 1. The first one uses plain pink and plain green cotton thread. The second one uses plain white and mix purple cotton thread. The third one uses mix orange and mix purple cotton thread. The fourth one uses glitter pink and black synthetic thread. Every square looks "different" and "beautiful". Thank you for the squares Arleen. We hope you'll join us in our next pattern and also in our "urgent project".

New Squares Received

Today we received these 4 squares from Nur Indah Astuti. Thank you Nur, we really appreciate these squares. We hope you will join us in our school bags project also.