In The Loop in 2013

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP 2013 Information and Schedule  Projects in 2013 will be made and donated to 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations working on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts throughout New York City. Winter sessions (January, February, March) will focus on hats, cowls, and other cold weather accessories. The completed pieces will be distributed to Staten Island residents through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Learn more about the foundation’s work at www.tunneltotowers.org. 2013 sessions will continue to be on the third Friday of each month, from 12-2pm, at Brookfield Place, World Financial Center. January 18 February 15 March 15 April 19 May 17 June 21 July 19 August 16 September 20 October 18 November 15 December 13 (second Friday) Wishing you all a very joyous New Year, and see you in 2013!

Meeting Friday, December 14 - Last Session of the Year!

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, December 14, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks Announcements This Friday is the final WFC In The Loop session of 2012. Please bring back any outstanding projects! If you have completed a project and are not able to attend, please mail it to Ina at her studio:  Ina Braun Tante Sophie et Cie. 21 Broadway Denville, NJ 07834

At this meeting, we will announce the charity recipient for the handmade goods we will make in Winter 2013.
 

Patterns & Supplies

We will finish off the throw pillows we started in October. For those who did not start this project, we will have coaster kits to work on.

We are so proud of all of the items we were able to provide to the new homeowners of the St. John’s residences built by Habitat-NYC over this past year – from coasters to afghans.

 

Pillows:

·         Perfect Square Pillow: Size 11 / 8mm needles

·         Sweet Home Sweet Pillow: 4mm hook

Coasters:

·         Knit Coasters: 10.5 or 11mm needles, short bamboo or 24" circulars for working in rows

·         Granny Square Crochet Coasters: 3.5mm, 4mm or 4.5mm hook, size F

·         Crochet Coasters: 3.5mm, 4mm or 4.5mm hook, size F

 

Charity Recipient

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Sandy Relief Knitting Bee - November 27

Calling all knitters! Help knit patchwork squares to make blankets for Hurricane Sandy Victims on Tuesday, November 27.

See below or visit the Sandy Relief Knitting Bee Facebook page for more information.

Meeting Friday, November 16

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, November 16, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks Patterns & Supplies This Friday, we will continue working on the throw pillows we started in October. For those who were unable to join us last month, there are additional pillow and coaster kits to keep everyone busy! As we quickly come upon the end of the year, please bring back any outstanding projects so that we can get as many completed items to deserving families. If you have completed a project and are not able to attend, please mail it to Ina at her studio:

Ina Braun

Tante Sophie et Cie.

21 Broadway

Denville, NJ 07834

Charity Recipient

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Announcements
We know that Hurricane Sandy has posed huge challenges and difficulties for all of us in this area, and we hope that this post finds you and your loved ones safe and with power, heat, and hot water.

While the storm caused the annual Canstruction exhibition at the WFC to be postponed, Brookfield and Canstruction are collecting canned goods for City Harvest, which will be distributed to those affected by Sandy. The collection box is in the Winter Garden.

Meeting Friday, October 19

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, October 19, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks Patterns & Supplies Join us this Friday as we begin working on a new project that will take us through the end of 2012 - throw pillows. These pillows will be a sweet accent piece for the families moving into Habitat for Humanity's St. John's Residences. For those of you who joined us last week, don't forget to bring your completed coasters. See you this Friday with your needles or hooks in hand!  Perfect Square Pillow: Size 11 / 8mm needles Sweet Home Sweet Pillow: 4mm hook

Charity Recipient

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's
Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Announcement
There are some projects from earlier this year that have not been returned.
If you have an outstanding project, please bring it with you to the next meeting -
preferably complete but okay if not!

If you have completed a project and are not able to attend the next meeting,
please mail it to Ina at her studio:

Ina Braun
Tante Sophie et Cie.
21 Broadway
Denville, NJ 07834

Meeting Friday, September 21

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, September 21, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks Patterns & Supplies This month we will begin lovely projects for the living room. We have actually accumulated a fair amount of leftovers and will make those work for a fun mix of coasters for each household. Knit Coasters: 10.5 or 11mm needles, short bamboo or 24" circulars for working in rows Granny Square Crochet Coasters: 3.5mm, 4mm or 4.5mm hook, size F Crochet Coasters: 3.5mm, 4mm or 4.5mm hook, size F

Charity Recipient

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's
Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Announcement
Projects can no longer be dropped off at the Arts Brookfield office between
meetings. If you have completed a project and will not be able to attend the
next meeting, please mail it to Ina at her studio:

Ina Braun
Tante Sophie et Cie.
21 Broadway
Denville, NJ 07834

Meeting this Friday, August 17

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, August 17, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks Afghan Assembly This Week! Finish up those afghan panels - this week, we'll assemble them to make complete projects to include in the distribution kits for the families at the new St. John's Residences, which will be mailed to them in time for their move into their new homes in mid-September. Invitation from Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity - New York has invited all members of In The Loop to join them at the Dedication  Cerermony on September 15th in Oceans Hill - Brownsville!   All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in OceanHill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC. Announcement Projects can no longer be dropped off at the Arts Brookfield office between meetings. If you have completed a project and will not be able to attend the next meeting, please mail it to Ina at her studio: Ina Braun Tante Sophie et Cie. 21 Broadway Denville, NJ 07834

Meeting this Friday, July 20

Brookfield presents WFC IN THE LOOP Full-Year Charity Partnership with Habitat for Humanity - New York City Friday, July 20, 2012 12 - 2pm World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks

This month, we'll sew in labels to our completed projects and continue working on afghans for the living room. Please bring ALL completed projects this week so that we can begin to assemble the kits.

Remember, each afghan piece (1 piece per kit; 4 kits per finished blanket) will be due Friday, August 17th. At that meeting, we'll combine all the sections together to make complete projects to include in the distribution kits for the families at the new St. John's Residences, which we'll give out at our September meeting!

Patterns & Materials

There are no new projects this month, but this is the time for completing any incomplete projects and finishing complete projects with customized labels!

Ina will bring all the items we need - labels, needles, thread, as well as some expert advice for how to secure the labels to the projects so that they are not in the way and do not fall off!

Recipient Charity

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

July and August Activities

The dog days of summer are upon us, so we will be taking advantage of the cool interior of the World Financial Center to do our upcoming on-site projects.

Join us in July to sew in labels to all of the incredible projects we have created thus far in 2012 - almost TWO HUNDRED different projects to donate to the deserving families who have moved into their new homes in Ocean Hill - Brownsville, Brooklyn!

You should also continue to work on your afghan projects. The knitting project kits have all been taken, but we have a number of crocheting kits remaining for those of you who are speedy crocheters and still want to take something home to work on before our August 17th meeting.

As a reminder, ALL afghan kits are DUE at the beginning of our August 17th meeting, when we will sew up the pieces into complete blankets as part of our presentation to the Habitat for Humanity families.

Remember: if you are stuck, please contact Ina at 201.910.0027 or via e-mail. The only successful project is a completed project!

Friday, June 15: Afghans, continued

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow as we continue working on our afghans. Come with finished panels and/or questions. Final projects will be due no later than August 17th, when we will patch them all together to create finished blankets for the Habitat families!

Project Sign-Out Reminder

To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients, all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and phone number.

 
Patterns & Materials

Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Crochet Afghan: Size "N" Crochet Hook
Knit Afghan: Size 10 Needles (straight or circular)

Recipient Charity

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Join us Friday, May 18 for Afghans!

Knit "Simple Throw" by Lion Brand Yarn

This month, we'll collect your finished washroom products to deliver to the Habitat families, and we'll start on two new Living Room projects: Afghans! Each kit will contain a portion of one afghan. Each portion will be due Friday, August 17th. At that meeting, we'll combine all the sections together to make complete projects!

Project Sign-Out Reminder

To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients, all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and phone number.

 
Patterns & Materials

Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Crochet Afghan: Size "N" Crochet Hook
Knit Afghan: Size 10 Needles (straight or circular)

Recipient Charity

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

In The Loop Meeting This Friday. New Projects!

We're excited to see you this Friday to continue working on washroom projects and have a few new kits with patterns to create bath mats!

Friday, April 20, 2012
12 - 2pm
World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks



Notes from Ina

• There are still a number of kits from January through March that need to be made and returned. We hope to have your continued enthusiastic support to finish those up so we can confidently move on to the new projects on the list. Ashley will be calling those unreturned projects to collect all outstanding projects. Please bring yours this Friday!
• It is already April and we are moving along to new projects.
• We have a granny square crochet bath mat and a knitted doily bath mat. Lovely oversized pattern and altogether a quick project each!
• The crochet bath mat uses three skeins of the Lion Brand Cotton Ease with nary any leftovers. We will double up the yarn.
• You need a size J (6.0 mm crochet hook). I will check closely that we get the desired gauge and feel. I will have a finished sample on hand.
• The knitted doily bath mat is worked with a triple strand and a size 15 (10.0 mm) needle. You can use a 24” circular needle but we will work in rows! There will be a finished sample on hand.
• The yarn amount for the knitted bath mat is leaving us quite a bit of leftovers. We will use those for the next round of projects, so please bring your leftover yarn in May.
• I will work closely with you to make sure things “look” and turn out right.
• You know that I can be reached via email if questions arise: tantesophie@me.com or on my mobile # 1.201.910.0027

Project Sign-Out Reminder
To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients,
all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and
phone number.

Patterns & Materials
Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Crochet Square Basket
(Size "E" Crochet Hook)

Knit Bauhaus Washcloth
(Size 9 Needles)

Crochet Granny Square Bath Mat
(Size "J" Crochet Hook)

Knit Doily Bath Mat
(Size 15 Needles)

Recipient Charity
All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's
Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.
For more information, visit http://www.habitatnyc.org/

Friday, March 16: Kitchen Projects Due, Washroom Projects Start!

Please join us this Friday, March 16, to return your completed kitchen projects! We are so excited to see your potholders, oven mitts, place mats and grocery bags, and prepare them for delivery to Habitat for Humanity.

This week, we'll begin on our Washroom projects. There is one knit pattern and one crochet pattern. Both are made with machine washable (and dry-able!) Lion Cotton.

Square Crochet Basket: Size "E" (3.5mm) crochet hook



Bauhaus Washcloth: Size 6 knitting needles (straight or circular)



As last time, we will ask you to sign out your projects so that we can keep good track and ensure we deliver enough gifts to the new Habitat homeowners!

Pattern Note for Crocheted Market Bag

Hello to all!

The week has flown by and I promised Ashley some notes for you to make the final outcome of our projects a success.

• We had a number of finished projects returned last week and ran into a common problem on the crochet market tote! Not enough yarn!
• What will we do? Wiggle the pattern a bit and make it work with what we have! Please use good judgement to see how far the first skein gets you. You might have to shorten the number of rounds before the handles or even rework the handles. I'd say get through about a third of the second skein and plan on working the handles. How to know that amount ... a little kitchen scale can help ... there was actually a nice lesson on that matter on the knitter's review this week ... www.knittersreview.com! Always packed with good information worth reading up on.
• We want to be able to make the tote with the amount of yarn we have. If in doubt feel free to bring it in for review next time.
• The felted mitten potholders are worked with a single strand! We will felt all those pieces together at the end if you would rather not attempt that yourself. It is fun though and you will see that felting covers a multitude of little irregularities and is most forgiving!
• And yes, for the crochet potholders you are NOT supposed to have a gazillion little ends to put away ... work with the tails from both ends of the skein.
• If I forgot anything ... please feel free to contact me via email (tantesophie@me.com) or call me 201.910.0027 ... I will gladly help from afar.
• In the meantime ... be well ... do good work ... and keep in touch.

Kindest regards, Ina

Meeting this Friday; Kitchen Projects Continue

Reminder: Meeting this week!

Friday, January 20, 2012
12 - 2pm
World Financial Center Courtyard, next to Starbucks

This month, we'll continue our kitchen products in order to finish up by March 16 in time to deliver to the Habitat families!

Project Sign-Out Reminder
To ensure we are able to donate enough projects to our charitable recipients, all projects that are taken will need to be signed out with your name and phone number.

Patterns & Materials
Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Knit Mini Market Tote: 24" Size 9 Circular Needle
Crochet Tote: Size "I" Crochet Hook
Crochet Felted Potholders: Size "K" Crochet Hook
Knit Felted Oven Mitt: Size 11 Circular and Double-Pointed Needles
Knit Placemats & Crochet Napkin Rings: Size 8 Needles and/or Size 8 "H" Crochet Hook

Recipient Charity
All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.

Follow-Up from the Doe Fund
The Doe Fund received our projects from the end of 2011, which totalled 52 hats, both knit and crocheted, and 16 fingerless mitts! Thank you to all our volunteers who created such wonderful and warm accessories for the beneficiaries of this special program. See below from the Doe Fund's Director of Development:

A Note from Ina

It's already been a week that we saw you dig into the project piles and get the new round of projects off to a fast and furious start. We have plenty to go around and are hoping to have them all accounted for at the end of this round (March 17). Do not hesitate to contact me via email or phone if you run into trouble ... if you have finished projects that you want to exchange for a new one, please reach out to Ashley (212 417 7143) ...and til we meet again ... be well ... do good work ... and keep in touch!

2012 Charitable Partner and Projects

Brookfield presents
WFC IN THE LOOP 2012
Full-Year Charity Partnership with
Habitat for Humanity - New York City

Meeting:
Friday, January 20, 2012
12 - 2pm
World Financial Center Courtyard, adjacent to Starbucks

CHARITY ANNOUNCEMENT
We're thrilled to announce that WFC In The Loop will be partnering with Habitat - NYC to donate ALL of this year's projects to twelve deserving families who will become first-time homeowners in 2012. We're beginning with kitchen accessories, and will continue to work our way through the rooms of a home as 2012 unravels.



PROJECT SIGN-OUT
We have committed to providing a certain number of projects to the Habitat - NYC families in 2012. To ensure we are able to fulfill our commitments, all projects will need to be signed out with your name and phone number.

PATTERNS & MATERIALS
Please bring your own needles; we will provide the yarn & instruction!

Knit Mini Market Tote
24" Size 9 Circular Needle

Crochet Tote
Size "I" Crochet Hook

Crochet Felted Potholders
Size "K" Crochet Hook

Knit Felted Oven Mitt
Size 11 Circular and Double-Pointed Needles

Knit Placemats
Size 8 Needles and/or Size 8 "H" Crochet Hook

ABOUT HABITAT - NYC
Habitat for Humanity - New York City transforms lives and our city by building quality homes for families in need and by uniting all New Yorkers around the cause of affordable housing. With the help of thousands of volunteers every year, Habitat-NYC has built more than 260 affordable homes in the five boroughs of New York City. Learn more at www.habitatnyc.org.

All projects in 2012 will be donated to new homeowners of the St. John's
Residences to be built in Ocean Hill-Brownsville by Habitat - NYC.