Afghans for Angels
Please don't try and figure out how I go from sex quizes to this kind of stuff without missing a beat... I really am a strange girl...
I saw this on our Columbia Tribune
Q: I would like to know whether anyone has heard anything about what they call making "afghans for angels." I saw something about it on television, but I don’t have any more information.
A: Afghans for Angels is a volunteer organization that makes baby blankets and delivers them to hospitals to give to parents who have suffered the losses of their infants through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death. The blankets are wrapped around babies when their parents hold them for the last time and act as mementos of the children for grieving parents.
According to the Afghans for Angels Web site, www.angelfire.com/ia2/AforApage2/, the organization, with headquarters in Britt, Iowa, was founded in 1996 and has chapters in 15 states. The site does not list a Missouri chapter.
Afghans for Angels encourages anyone who can "knit, crochet, quilt or creatively decorate purchased blankets" to help with its efforts. The organization has not yet applied for not-for-profit status, so it asks that donors contribute materials, postage stamps, office supplies or finished blankets instead of cash.
Blankets can range in size from 12-inch squares for premature babies to full-size baby blankets.
posted by FantasticAlice @ 1:17 PM
9 Comments:
Awwwww! My best friends baby was a premie, and she is doing well-tall even-grew like a weed!
She had a LOT of time to make up.
Good to hear it!
And now you have your damned bicycle as a icon....
oh wow. what an incredible gesture to give parents one last memory to hold on to.
aw! I want to knit a blanket! Do they take blankets from beginners?
I got sick of looking at myself Alice!
That's very sad. Don't really know what to say. :(
I guess the gesture though is wonderful.
Wow, that is a wonderful thing they do.
I think it's a heartwarming gesture, and a profound one. Parents who lose a their child must go through so much, and this blanket could provide some solace in that grieving process.
"Please don't try and figure out how I go from sex quizes to this kind of stuff without missing a beat... I really am a strange girl..."
haha. idk, i get it. and i love it.
that is sweet of you to post this site. good work.
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