Volunteer Group Gives a Patient a Handcraft Every Hour

The Common Thread Circle, a alms that gives handcrafted fabricworks like blimp bears to hospital patients, has added assembly so that every hour of the day, a handcraft goes to a accommodating in the greater Houston Area.

"With the acceleration in our production, we are giving about 1000 items a month, or one for anniversary hour of anniversary day, to patients adverse abiding affliction for austere illness," said Lenore Alfredson, the group's associates coordinator. Alfredson added that the fabricworks appear in abounding forms, some of which are treatment-related like wheelchair across-the-board accoutrements and stoma covers, and others of which are "comfort items" for patients.

Starting in 2007, The Common Thread Circle -- a alms sponsored by United Methodist Women and Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, although it is non-denominational -- encouraged its associates to allot time to stitching, bed-making and knitting handcrafts for Houston-area patients.

"Over the endure two years, we accept broadcast from bringing a few items at a time to a brace hospitals to bringing truckloads of handcrafts to a dozen Houston hospitals," said Rima Blanc, agent of the group. "These handcrafts accommodate abundance for patients as they face difficult and generally aching procedures, and our blankets accumulate them balmy in the algid hospital air."

The Common Thread Circle, a alms that gives handcrafted abundance items to hospital patients, has broadcast assembly so that they are now giving a accommodating a handcrafted bolt plan for every hour of anniversary day.

The added action has affronted response. Two Houston account stations, Channel 39 KIAH and Fox Channel 26, accept featured the accumulation in nightly account stories. In addition, the Texas Medical Center News annual spotlighted the accumulation with a on the aboriginal page of their August issue.

About The Common Thread Circle
The Common Thread Circle is a accumulation of volunteers who actualize handcrafted bolt works to accord to patients in bounded hospitals. Every two hours, a accommodating receives a handcrafted plan from this group.