The Walden House

The afghan made its way to South Carolina and into the hands of the Walden family!







You can read about the Walden Family's turn with the afghan in the post Package of Love, on their blog: Blessed Chaos

An Afghan For Jayna

Every afghan is special to me. Every child that receives one receives a piece of me. This afghan is extra special.

Jayna spent the first two and a half years of her life as my daughter. Now, she has found her forever home with an amazing family who has opened the door for us to have contact with Jayna.

Of course, she needed her own afghan. And she received it.

I hope she feels the warmth of a hug every time she wraps the afghan around her shoulders or covers up with it at bed time. This one, a tiny bit more than the others, was made with love.

The Mimmel Family

The afghan is visiting Patrick and his family in South Carolina!

As you can see, it's being well hosted!






Patrick is so darn cute and looks like he is having a blast with the afghan! And I LOVE how ALL the kids put it over their head and "hide"!

You can read the Mimmel family's post, The Afghan Is Here and visit their blog: The Mimmel Family!

*Note, blog is written in German

An Afghan For Logan

I was contacted about Logan's mom by Kristy Colvin of The International Mosaic Down Syndrome Association regarding Logan.

Logan was still born and his family is feeling the loss of their child. Kristy asked if I was willing to send them an afghan in Logan's memory and I couldn't wait to help ease this family's pain.

Here is Logan's mom with his afghan:



You can read more about Logan's family at It Only Hurts When I Breath.

Mini-Update

1.) We have fourty-five out of fifty United States! We are still missing Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming.

We can do this folks! Let's get all fifty!

2.) We have added some additional countries as well! Welcome Belgium, Mexico and South America!

3.) Here is the updated tentative schedule for the next few months!
May: South Carolina
June: North Carolina
July: Ohio and California
August: California
September: California, Alaska and Massachusetts

Again, this is only tentative!

I did have a family interested in taking the afghan on the Buddy Cruise in September, but I have not heard from them! If another family is going on the cruise and would like to take the afghan along, please email me at chandosjoy@gmail.com. It would be greatly appreciate!!

4.) If you are not a member of the T21 Traveling Afghan Project Group on Facebook, what are you waiting for?? We post all the pictures of the kids with the afghan there!

5.) Check out the Order an Afghan page if you would like to order an afghan for your child, a friend's child, etc.

Ok, I think that's it!

I'm sure Martin will get our Google map updated as soon as the afghan arrives at its next destination! Stay tuned!

An Afghan For Joaquin

The adorable Mr. Joaquin of Tris a Charm received his very own afghan!

He is such an adorable little boy!

His mom sent me a charm necklace from her shop Addy and Sam which I absolutely adore! There is one charm for each of my kids with their names on it! The perfect gift for any mom, grandmom or friend!

An Afghan For Benjamin

Mr. Benjamin's father, Martin keeps track of the afghan through a Google map which shows us all where the afghan has been as well as links to each child or family's blog.

He also keeps us all up to date on Mr. Ben on his blog Big Ben Benjamin!


He does an amazing job at keeping up with it and to say thank you, I sent Mr. Ben his own afghan! As you can see, he was excited to take a bite out of it and dug right in!

An Afghan For Rhett

Mr. Rhett is one of the reasons I started this project. He is in and out of the hospital and I thought the best thing I could do was send him an afghan. Then I wanted to send ALL the kids an afghan and from that, the Traveling Afghan Project was born!

So here's to Mr. Rhett with his very own afghan!




You can read more about him at The Flock Of Birds!

An Afghan For Avery

Jennifer Graf Groneberg of Pinwheels has an adorable son named Avery! Here is Avery with his very own afghan!!

Team Eian

The afghan has made its way to South Carolina into the hands of the adorable Mr. Eian! Eian and his family have been quite the host for our T21 afghan! Not only did they take it to a baseball game, but it also accompanied Team Eian at the Union County Torch run for Special Olympics!!

As you can see, the afghan is well loved!!












You can visit Eian's Mom, Dawn's, blog via the button below!



Click on the following links to see all Dawn's posts regarding the afghan:
T21 Traveling Afghan Is Here - Arrival
Baseball, Down syndrome and the Afghan, Oh My!
T21 Traveling Afghan Is Here: Torch Run

An Afghan For Mayson

Ms. Mayson is the daughter of a very good friend of mine, the one and only Amy of The Flege Farm.

Amy and Mayson's family were the first to receive the Traveling Afghan and Ms. Mayson got quite attached to it. Therefore, I offered to make her one of her own and An Afghan of Their Own was born!

Here's Mayson with her very own afghan!