December 23, 2017
Hats for Sale
“Hats for Sale, all proceeds go 100% to the UWFA scholarship fund, all hats are handmade and all hats are unique, come try them on and we have mirrors to let you see how good you look in them!”
Tina Schiess and Dagmar Shannon trying to convince a potential buyer
That was the rallying cry to bring in the customers at the Hat Sale on November 12th at Metropolitan Market on 5250 40th Avenue NE. The store manager had graciously agreed to let us sell our hats right in front of the store entrance on a Sunday between the hours of 11:00 and 3:00, their busiest time. So Kay Gordon, Gay Hardy, Hady de Jong, Tina Schiess and I went to work selling.
Well, sell we did and we made just over $1000 with the hat sale that day.
Well, you may ask where do these hats come from? The hat sale was introduced to us by our member Kay Gordon. Kay is so wonderful and generous that she has been knitting hats for years and has such a great philanthropic reputation that people give her yarn for her hat projects. Well guess what, Kay, who makes many of the hats herself, and we have recruited some of the knitters from the stitchery group to donate their hats also to this sale, lets us keep 100% of the proceeds we make from selling the hats at “our” sales.
Hady de Jong donning one of the hats
And the following Monday Kay, Hady and Tina did another sale at the UW Hub and again sold almost $400 worth of hats to benefit our Scholarship program. Taken together that is a serious infusion of $ into our scholarship fund and all thanks to the power of one!
The one who had the idea, who made the most hats and who is present and sets up at every sale, Kay Gordon. Kay, we thank you and we salute you!
Of course we also give much thanks for the many knitters who contribute their hats to us like Barbara Archbold, Lynn Bradley, Hady de Jong and many others and to the ladies who volunteer to sell the hats.
Table of the UWFA with hats
Well done, everyone, I suppose it is now time to knit more hats so we can replenish our supplies and get ready for next year’s sale.
We are still looking for more knitters and Kay has yarn and patterns that she will gladly share with us. So will you join us and knit for scholarships!
Dagmar Shannon
Hat seller