Plenty of hats? You bet. But there’s no cap on the goodwill between these groups.

Three days a week, a group of volunteers at the Shipley Center are hard at work making sure youths at Sequim’s Boys & Girls Club are warm and cared for.

Judy Lange and Dr. Monica Dixon help lead the gathering of more than a dozen knitters/crocheters who transform yarn into caps, scarves and teddy bears for their younger recipients.

The Shipley Center group has made about 100 hats, 50 scarves and 25 teddies since November, according to Michelle Rhodes, development and program director at the Shipley Center.

“They have those (bears) down at the club for those who are having a bad day,“ Rhodes says.

For a couple of hours per day on Mondays and Tuesdays and Fridays, the group takes various colors of donated yarn and turns it into clothing and toys.

Lange says the individual pieces vary in how long they take to finish.

“It depends — some people crochet faster, some slower,” Lange says. “It’s at least two hours for a hat. Scarves (take) a lot longer because it is longer.”

Bears, Lange says, can take five hours or longer each.

All the material is donated, Rhodes notes.

The knitting/crocheting group got started about 11 years ago thanks to Leslie Menia, now a 23-year member of the Shipley Center.

“Somebody asked me for knitting help,” Menia recalls, and that snowballed into an initial group of about eight people. That group included a homeschooled youth who went on to teach her own mother to knit.

A partnership then blossomed when Dixon started a care closet inside the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. She went online to seek donations and there she connected with Rhodes, who said the Shipley Center’s donated hats were going to Port Angeles. Now the donations stay in Sequim.

Occasionally the youths will come and visit the Shipley Center volunteers.

“The kids get a kick out of the ladies and the ladies get a kick out of the kids,” Rhodes says. “It’s a nice, intergenerational thing.”

Lange notes that the group always is looking for new members.

The center is accepting donations of yarn, Rhodes says, but she and Lange both point out they would rather have acrylic yarn and not wool, as wool may irritate some skin and is not good for keeping clean.

Yarn may be dropped off at the Shipley Center office, 921 E. Hammond St. The center is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays.

For more information, call 683-6806.