Suzy Q Homemaker

There’s a special place in my heart for this challenge.  Words just can’t describe how deeply important it is for me to do this.  Dewey’s Knit-A-Long is Mini-Challenge #2 in Dewey’s Books Challenge.  Haha, that’s a lot of linking in one sentence.  Don’t mean to be irreverent (which is nearly impossible when Dewey’s involved–she was not the type to get all offended, oh queen of dark and sarcastic humor that she was).

I already had plans to do some knitting for charity in her honor, and this just gives me greater cause to do so.  One of the charity I have in mind is the Snuggles Project.

The Snuggles Project was founded by our president and founder, Rae French, in 1996 because of her heartfelt need to do something for the innocent victims who find themselves in animal shelters without a bit of comfort to call their own. Picturing them in their hard cold cells made her heart ache to do something to help. So she got the idea of security blankets for shelter animals. The security blankets are called “Snuggles.” Each animal would get a Snuggle to cuddle up with to feel warmth and comfort. Most shelter animals are kept in areas with stainless steel braces and hard plastic flooring or even bare concrete floors. The Snuggles would allow them to have a little reprieve from the coldness of the pen they are kept in.

One thing that Dewey and I both loved to share were our cat stories.  She was always worried that she talked about her cats too much, but I was always telling her that I loved to hear about Minette and her newest girl Minerva.  I sometimes showed her pictures that I took of my cats and she came up with some pretty funny captions for them on ICHC.  In honor of Dewey, her friends were encouraged to “rent a cat or something.”  Since I can’t realistically do that with three cats in the house already, I’ll knit for cats instead.

Tags: book challenges, cats, crafts, Dewey's Books, Dewey's KAL

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