random cool

A few months ago I sent a package of crocheted Granny Squares to a woman in Texas who is heading a wonderful project called Share a Square. For the past year she has been collecting thousands of Granny Squares from around the world to put together beautiful afghans for children diagnosed with cancer who attend a special camp every summer. Many of the kids are undergoing treatment while at camp and are at different stages of the disease. People crochet squares and attach a little note to each with a safety pin with a message and where they are from. Packages of 48 random squares are then distributed out to volunteers who put them together to complete the afghans. Then they send them back to Texas. The link highlighted above shows some finished ones.

I woke up this morning to find an email from a flickr/blog buddy of mine. We became contacts because we’re both Crafty-Indie girls and like each other’s work. She and her mom are 2 of the volunteers putting afghans together. Out of thousands of squares, how awesome is this:

In her packet was one that I did! So random. I’m in Europe and (I’m pretty sure) she’s in the States. This really made my day in a wonderful but weird way. Small world!