Cancer survivor gifts KC over 300 handmade hats and scarves

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KSHB) — Her roots whitethorn beryllium successful Hays, Kansas, but Teresa Boos is gifting Kansas City with handmade cold-weather gear.

"It conscionable was benignant of accelerated and furious, and we conscionable wanted to bash thing affirmative successful the mediate of truthful overmuch heartache and heartbreak going on," Boos said.

While the COVID-19 pandemic kept radical astatine home, Boos and her friends stayed tied unneurotic done yarn. The 5 of them person been crocheting hats and scarves for radical successful need.

"We tin springiness hats and scarves of galore kinds, but erstwhile thing is handmade, I deliberation it conscionable sends specified a deeper connection and truthful that's my hope," Boos said.

The radical has created implicit 300 items.

On Dec. 4, the hats and scarves were hung connected the chain-link obstruction extracurricular Operation Breakthrough's Ignition Lab, created by Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce.

"When it came to deciding wherever to bent the hats and scarves, determination was nary uncertainty it was going to beryllium Kansas City," Boos said.

Married to a life-long Chiefs fan, and connected the hunt for a obstruction to bent the items, Boos said the Ignition Lab determination was the cleanable space.

Tied to the hats and scarves were a enactment from Boos and her friends, reminding radical that they matter.

"I deliberation it was a beauteous chill thing. After we got each the hats and scarves hung, a man rode by connected his motorcycle and was looking astatine each of them and helium conscionable paused and I said, 'Do you request a hat? Do you request a scarf? Please instrumentality one,'" Boos said. "He got disconnected his bike, and helium took a hat, and helium asked if helium could instrumentality 1 for 1 of his friends, and I said, 'absolutely.'"

Boos said that giving backmost to the Kansas City assemblage that saved her beingness gave her a lukewarm feeling.

"In 2006, I had a stem compartment transplant successful Kansas City due to the fact that I had leukemia, and truthful we had to unrecorded determination for astir 100 days which was beauteous tough," Boos said.

Boos hopes to spot much radical articulation successful and marque the effort a yearly tradition.

"Wherever we live, wherever we are, there's ever a mode we tin effort to marque a quality and that's what I anticipation happens," Boos said.

Boos besides delivered implicit 100 items to the bony marrow transplant portion astatine the University of Kansas Health Systems.

This communicative was primitively reported by McKenzie Nelson connected kshb.com.