Help For Japan 2. Does anyone knit? "Handmade Scarves for Japan" Project

Hi, all! Ae you into both knitting and volunteering? One college group of Japan receives donations that are hand-knitted for the evacuees from the earthquake in March. The Japanese group started the project called "Handmade Scarves for Japan" and is going to give the donated items to the evacuees. Lots of people in the area where the earthquake hit still spend days in school gyms and don't even have own a room! In winter the areas have snow and cold breeze from the shores. It'll be a harder winter for them to spend this year. Then the group want your kind heart and some warm hand-knitted projects.

According to the website, it has to be HAND-knitted and wearable. Here are some samples;
1) scarves
2) mittens or gloves
3) shawls
4) hats or caps
5) neckwarmer
6) socks
etc...

No matter what you make, it must be hand- knitted. That's important.

Needless to say, the evacuees are in all the different ages and also the genders differ, so please make not only for women but for men, kids, adults, and different sizes!!

To join the project, you need to email them about what you plant to make, when to finish, and a number of items. They say it is just for checking what and the number of items. Click here.

For more details, please check out their website.

It's also on Ravelry and Facebook too.

New Tote Bag Debuts

This summer is a little different from the past. These last 2 weeks, it was mostly cloudy and the temperature stayed under 30 degrees! Comparing to last year, it's not that hot and humid, which is very nice for a pregnant woman. One thing I concern is vegetables grown in the farms because it'll be expensive!

Well, no matter the weather is hot or not, I neither give up sewing or knitting. This time I made a tote bag with cotton fabrics. Cotton is so much easier to sew than oil cloth, so it didn't bother me sewing at all. You can use this tote casually since it's cotton, so that carry it around everywhere you go!

The size is as follows;
width: 19cm
height: 19cm
depth: 12cm

I attached a flower motif at the bottom of the tote!

The base fabric is as same as the inner fabric, and the red part is crocheted. On the top is a pink button.

For the details, you can see here. You can purchase it online too! Please go to my etsy shop!