fannie & millie .: handcrafted goodness

Sometimes I wonder if I’m doing enough to help other people.  Although I know that giving is not a competition, a story like this one from The Oregonian makes me think it might be possible to step it up a bit. 

…For 47 years, Guy has been knitting caps for infants in hospitals, veterans in clinics, the down-and-out on the street, and refugees in foreign lands. Donna sews baby quilts, though not for quite as long. Only since 2001, when they married, have they kept an accurate tally of their gift giving.

At last count, Guy, who turns 91 next week, was turning out 3,000 caps a year on the knitting machine in his workshop. And Donna, 76, finished 483 quilts last year.

3,000?  A year???  That’s a lot of hats!