Amy's speech, video-style

At the December 2014 meet-up, 54 hats and a lap blanket were donated. A good chunk of them came from teenager Lexi. Wow! You're inspiring!! You all inspire me every single month.

That brings our 2014 total to 808, about 20 more than our first year. And as everyone becomes more experienced, every item we donate becomes better and better. Learn more about our year during our second annual celebration meet-up on Jan. 18, 2015. See you from 1-3! (Special program at 1:30pm.)

Lexi and her mom Kelly

Yep, this teenager made all that hats filling that bag!

Little crochet hearts decorate these knit hats made by Brenda

We love it when new people attend our meetings! Hope you come back, Kathy!

There's plenty for the kiddos to do while the moms chat and crochet.

A stack by Linda

The basket Linda's hats come in each month.

31 hats, a shawl, a blanket and a pair of socks -- Those were the donations gathered at the August 2014 meet-up. Wow! We're impressed! It's summer time and you all are still crafting amazing handmade items!

There was an impressive array of hand-crafted items at our April 2014 meeting (held one week later because Easter fell on the 3rd Sunday). You are all amazing!! Thank you!!

We collected 50 items in April.

One of our youngest contributors: Lexi!

This month's project at Silverwood was to create a nature journal book, complete with pocket for tucking naturalist items into!

715.

That's the number of hats we have made in 10 short months. Wow.

This month, we had only about 5 hats prior to the October meet-up, and we were starting to panic. We shouldn't have. All you lovely ladies showed up with over 80 hats.

Susie learned how to crochet in just August, and arrived with 16 beautiful items. She's a pro already. That's been such a fun part of Team Yarn for me... Watching the skill of folks go from nada to amazing.

We value each and every one of the 40+ folks who have donated to Team Yarn in the past 10 months.

This month, items will be heading to the Harbor Room in Cambridge, a place we donated to first back in January.