Crochet or Shop With Us at Casa

Hi, this is Nekhebet, I am thanking the Millis Senior Center because yesterday we worked with them on making bags. It was fun and was our second time at the senior center! Thank you!

Now today and tomorrow, we're at our grandparent's store in downtown Beverly to teach crochet and sell our bags and toys! Come down to 272 Cabot St, Beverly from 10-6 to pick some up or drop in for an hour or two and help create items with us! Uatchet posed for a photo of our little display!

Workshops, Booth Sales, and Theatre!

Mom here! The girls are very busy, but also very grateful! They've managed to teach 18 new people to crochet, reviewed crochet skills with 3 beginners and 2 who hadn't crocheted in over a decade... as well as working with 3 experienced crocheters! Along with ourselves, that's 29 people so far who have been working on their project! We have 3 more public workshop dates set up along with 7 opportunities for you to drop by and buy the finished products! Please RSVP and then come to our *public* workshops or contact us to arrange another time that works for you!:

• Wednesday 4/20, drop by the Millis Council on Aging's Senior Center on 4/20 from 9:30AM-Noon to join us with Crocheting or Knitting for charity!


• Thursday April 22 and Friday April 23 from 10AM-6PM we will have our bags and cat toys available at Casa de Moda (272 Cabot St, Beverly MA) to benefit Friends of Beverly Animals and Beverly Bootstraps! We will take breaks for meals, but are also offering crochet lessons and a spot to hang out and crochet or knit cat toys with us all day on both days!

We look forward to hosting more public workshops in both Millis and Beverly after the girls finish being in Millis Theatre's Footloose on April 1, 2, 8, and 9 at 7:30PM in the Millis Middle/High School Auditorium! Upcoming booth sales:

• Sunday April 17th from Noon-3:30PM we will be at Especially for Pets (67 Main St, Medway MA) to sell our cat toys! The Purr-Fect Cat Shelter will also be there with kitties looking for homes and ALL of the profit from our cat toys will be used to buy things that the shelter needs!


• Thursday April 22 and Friday April 23 from 9:30AM-6PM we will have our bags and cat toys available at Casa de Moda (272 Cabot St, Beverly MA) to benefit Friends of Beverly Animals and Beverly Bootstraps! We will take breaks for meals, but are also offering crochet lessons and a spot to hang out and crochet or knit cat toys with us all day on both days!


• Saturday April 30th, during the Pear Blossom Festival, from 10AM-2PM we will have a booth in the Beverly Commons (at the intersection of Dane St and Essex St, Beverly MA) to sell both cat toys to benefit Friends of Beverly Animals and produce bags to benefit Beverly Bootstraps!


• Sunday May 1st from 9AM-3PM we will be selling the Crochet Produce Bags at the Millis Roche Bros to benefit the Millis Ecumenical Food Pantry!


• Saturday May 8th from 9AM-3PM we will be selling the Crochet Produce Bags at the Millis Roche Bros to benefit the Millis Ecumenical Food Pantry!


• Saturday June 18th from 10AM-6PM we will have a booth outside of Casa de Moda (272 Cabot St, Beverly MA), selling our bags to benefit Friends of Beverly Animals and produce bags to benefit Beverly Bootstraps!

Booth Sale Dates and Workshops

Thank you so much to Especially for Pets for letting us set up a booth and sell our cat toys at the store! We had lots of lots of fun! And we met lots of that liked the cat toys and the shelter! And there were lots of dogs, plus one awesome cat!

We'd also like to thank Alyssa, Riley, Autumn, and their grownups for coming to our classes at the library this weekend! They were lots of fun and really good at it, too! We have another beginner class this Friday 3/25 from 2-4:30PM and a gathering for those who can already crochet or knit from patterns on Saturday 3/26 from 10:30-Noon at the Millis Public Library! Please let us know if you'll join us!

Thanks to Anthony and Noah for coming over today! You learned very quick and were very good at it! We hope to crochet with you again next weekend!

Weekend of Classes and Sales!

3/11 Workshop with Brownies Amelia and Kaya!
Mom, here... Will we see you this weekend? The girls are meeting me at the town library right after school for a Crochet Produce Bag Workshop until 4 and we'll be back on Saturday from 10:30-Noon to teach the bag to more folks, plus the following Saturday 2/26! If you already know how to crochet and want to help, come on down! For a $2.50 suggested donation you'll cover the cost of a bag and help create it so that we can sell them next month at Roche Bros to benefit The Millis Ecumenical Food Pantry! We've got 14 bag bases matched up with hooks along with 6 doll size bag bases, all ready for you to work on!

Then come visit us on Sunday from Noon until 3:30 at Medway's Especially for Pets! Pick up an adorable amigurumi catnip toy (and some herb-free jingle bell toys will be available) with your $5 donation and we'll use all of the profits to buy goods for the Millis Purr-Fect Cat Shelter!

We can't wait to see you!

Come Buy Our Cat Toys on Sunday!

We will be at Especially for Pets (67 Main St, Medway MA) on Sunday from Noon-3:30 on this coming Sunday, to sell our Cat Toys! And again, next month, on Sunday April 17th at the same time! The Purr-Fect Cat Shelter will also be there with kitties looking for homes and ALL of the profit from our cat toys will be used to buy things that the shelter needs!

Hi, it's Uatchet! :) Today me and my sister went to the Senior Center! We made wonderful cat toys there were sardines, rainbow and many more fish, small ones, even long ones! The other cat toys we have been making include more fishes, bunnies and birds! One bunny looks like Totoro (from a japanese cartoon movie)! :D

The fish in the photo to the right uses Lion Brand's Undersea Mobile 80797AD Pattern, isn't he adorable? He's one of Nekhebet's favorites!

Huge thanks to the ladies at the senior center (and Stephanie R.), who helped us make cat toys and produce bags! Mary, Jo, Lisa, Rose, and Lillian... you were awesome! And thank you for letting us play bingo with you after!

Thanks for tuning in! See you on Sunday!

Crocheting and Knitting at the Millis Council on Aging!

Hi this is Uatchet saying that we are doing a crochet gathering at the senior center! :D
I'm so Excited till then! We'll be making cat toys like catnip toys! Well we will post all about it after then! So keep in contact! You'll all get feed back if you comment! :D

We have so many cute cat toys and have started over 30 Crochet Produce Bags for beginners to work on at our other workshops! :D

(The goldfish in this photo was made using a slightly modified version of Goldfish Cat Toy 80204AD from Lion Brand)

Wednesday 3/16 9:30AM-Noon at the Millis Council on Aging

Crochet or Knit Amigurumi Cat Toys

Bring your own hooks/needles, also cotton or furry yarn if you have any! We've got all of the stuffing, catnip, and jingle bells that we'll need!

Together we'll create catnip and jingle bell cat toys that will be sold in Medway to benefit the Millis Purr-Fect Cat Shelter and later in Beverly to raise money for their cat rescue organization! Here's a link to a bunch of great knitting patterns for cat toys, and another link to crochet patterns!

Public Workshops at the Millis Public Library

Nekhebet and Uatchet, here! All Aboard! Come to the Millis Library where we will now also be teaching crochet lessons and having a gathering for those who know how to crochet! Email us now for the chance be a part of our project!

RSVP and then come to the Millis Public Library for our first *public* workshops:

• Friday 3/18 2:30-4PM Beginner Crochet Lesson *$2.50 suggested donation
  
• Saturday 3/19 10:30AM-Noon Beginner Crochet Lesson *$2.50 suggested donation
  
• Friday 3/25 2:30-4PM Beginner Crochet Lesson *$2.50 suggested donation
  
• Saturday 3/26 10:30AM-Noon Amigurumi Cat Toy Crochet/Knit Gathering *bring your own supplies, or use ours for a $1 suggested donation

Great First Workshop!

We just had our first beginner crochet workshop at our house and it was a great success! (I'm waiting on permissions to see if we're able to post more photos, so one from the workshop and an older shot of Uatchet in a bag will have to do!) We had 2 girls brand new to crochet and one that had started to learn a year ago, plus a mom who hadn't crocheted in about 20 years! And everyone did so great that they were able to watch an episode of Good Luck Charlie while crocheting! (It was so cute to look over at the couch and see them all concentrating with quickly moving hands, and all that while the tv was on!)

Thank you, guys!

(The bag in the photo is the Eco Warrior Bag, by the same artist who designed the pattern for the Crochet Produce Bag that we're working on... this one is made with stretchy Ticker Tape Yarn though, so Uatchet was able to fit inside AND be lifted!)