Pauline Swanberg has been crocheting since her mother taught her when she was 6 or 7.
She?ll be 84 in August. But, with the help of her friends and neighbors at Buckner Villas, she?s keeping up with her craft for a good cause.
Swanberg and the other ladies in the group are working on holiday gifts for soldiers overseas. The crocheting project is part of Operation Gratitude.
Over the past two years, they've made close to 1,000 scarves that went to Afghanistan and Iraq.
They plan to do 500 more by September. All the work is done by hand.
"I can't do a lot of things for them, and you want to do something for them because they're giving their lives for us," Julia Treadway, who is part of the group, said.
Many of the ladies have family who served in the armed forces. That motivates them to keep stitching.
"If I stayed with it I could do it in 3 hours," Swanberg said.
While they work, they the chat.
"We're just like one big family here,? Treadway said. ?Everybody's friendly, everybody looks out for everybody else."
But in the back of their minds, they're thinking about where these scarves will end up.
"Just wondering who will be wearing this and hope? it'll make them warm and comfortable," Swanberg said.
And, hopefully they?ll know there's a group of crafters thinking of them.
"It shows them that we care and we do," Treadway said.
Operation Gratitude is a nonprofit group that sends care packages to service men and women around the globe.
The scarves will be shipped out later this year.
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