Yarn Alive is designing postcards and we want your help! Vote on your favorite postcard design by pressing “Like” on our Facebook Page: Postcard Competition. The 100th person to "like" a design will receive the postcard with the most popular design ヤーンアライヴではポストカードをデザインしています。このアルバムのデザインから一番お気に入りのデザインに"いいね"して投票してください！１００人目の投票者には一番人気のあったデザインのポストカードを差し上げます！
[slideshow]
Meet Yarn Alive’s much loved oldest member
Name: Inazuma, Sakuyo
Age: 91 one years old
Lives: In the Temporary Housing in Shichigahama since May 2011
First starting coming to Yarn Alive: August 2011
Favorite Project: Sweaters and cardigans (currently wearing one of her designs in the above photo)
Favorite color: Orange
Favorite thing about Yarn Alive: Being with everyone and talking with one another.
Thank you to all the dedicated students at ICU!
[slideshow]
People in Japan - lots of festivals with Yarn Alive items for sale coming up in Tokyo and Nagoya this month. Pass the word on:東京と名古屋の祭りでYAのアイテムを販売予定！
November 3rd, 2012 – Saturday
Jikei University at Chofushi, Kokuryo Campus Mogiten from 9:30 AM to 4:00PM
http://www.jikei.ac.jp/univ/access_2.html
More Info: Get Involved
Students from Seikei University modelling Yarn Alive products which will be on sale: [slideshow]
Just when we were starting to wonder if we would have enough yarn to last us until the end of the year, 15 boxes of donated yarn and books from the US arrived! Thank you Carri Hammett and all our generous supporters for the past 20 months that have enabled us to continue to give to these ladies and see lives transformed!
Lots of swapping around, sharing of advice and trying on one another's new creations:
[gallery]
There is a story behind this blanket.
This blanket represents healing and restored hope.
A therapy blanket.
This blanket was created by a lady who suffered greatly after the tsunami. Her house and restaurant were on a small hill that overlooked an entire neighborhood next to the beach.
On March 11, people from her neighborbood fled to the evacuation point right next to her house. However she realized that even her house was not going to be safe from the tsunami. She urged people to flee to even higher ground. However, people just stood there in disbelief, watching their houses below being swept away from the tsunami. She ran to even higher ground, still urging people to follow suit. Tragically, this evacuation point was not high enough to save these people. She watched in horror as people were swept away. Her own house was filled with about a meter of water – measuring the wave to have reached about 15 meters.
Traumatized by this event, this lady needed time - time to think through everything. As part of her recovery, she started to crochet and knit with supplies that were given to her from Yarn Alive. Incredible pieces were created.
Through the months, this brave lady regained her strength and hope and re-opened her restaurant on the anniversary of 3/11.
Many of you have been asking if there is a way to donate other than mailing yarn and supplies. Well now there is! Visit our "Get Involved" page and click Donate! Any funds donated will go towards continuing the operations of Yarn Alive (supplies and upcoming events - like Christmas!) Thanks so much!
