[Nfb-krafters-korner] Military Helmet Liners

[Blindhands at aol.com]

For the folks here that are new to the list, I would like to tell you what  
we are doing.  We are doing a service project and making helmet liners to  
send to our military overseas.
 
I would like all of you to know why we use wool.  People have asked  isn't 
it warm there?  We use wool so our troops  are warm this winter. In 
addition, wool wicks away moisture and is  non-flammable. The temperatures they 
endure are below zero in  Iraq, Afghanistan, S.  Korea and Kosovo. 
 
We will have a telephone conference class on how  to make these hats that 
have a neck band and an opening for the face starting  this Friday.  It will 
run for 4 weeks.  You will have homework to  continue on each week so you 
will be  ready for the next step.  You  will have a finished hat at the end of 
the last class.  I will also discuss  at the last class some variations 
that can be done.  I will have the  pattern in Braille, but I will not have it 
in time for Friday's  class.
 
This is a knit hat and I do have a crochet  version of the hat, but we do 
not have a class planned on the crocheted version  as of yet.
 
Now you think I don't knit and I don't crochet,  well you can still be part 
of this.  You can help purchase the wool yarn  that we are using or help by 
donating something toward the postage  cost.   
 
The yarn is Cascade 100% wool worstered weight  yarn which we can use only 
certain colors as requested by the  military.
 
So please do plan on taking part in this.   We will be making hats during 
the summer and in the Fall sending them  out.
 
We have a resource that a few of us have joined  that will give us 
information on where  our hats are needed
 
Joyce .