Operation Caregiver seeks to provide comfort and hygiene to American troops deployed overseas through donations of knitted caps [...]
Project Linus
Posted on December 17, 2009 Leave a Comment
With over 300 chapters in the United States, this organization supplies hand knitted blankets to children in need who are seriously ill or traumatized in some way—in other words, “children in need of a big hug” [...]
Use Your Knitting Skills to Make Chemo Caps
Posted on November 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
Cancer patients need attractive caps to boost self-esteem after hair loss. ChemoCaps.com is a group of knitters who donate their time by making hand-knit caps for cancer patients in hospital oncology units and hospice. They encourage you to knit one or two or a few chemo caps and donate them to a cancer treatment center in the area where you live [...]
Donating Knitted Items to Hospitals
Posted on September 22, 2009 Leave a Comment
Thousands of premature babies are born every month and spend their first few weeks in hospital nurseries across the country. The National Association of Children’s Hospital and Related Institutions (NACHRI) offers a directory of facilities in different parts of the country which would donations of knitted “preemie” blankets, caps and gowns [...]
Knit to Donate to Care Wear for Infants and Children
Posted on September 18, 2009 Leave a Comment
Care Wear is a nationwide group of volunteer stitchers who knit, crochet, and sew handmade baby items to donate to hospitals around the country. Care Wear items are given FREE to infants, children, and their parents [...]
Join the Binky Patrol and Knit to Show You Care
Posted on September 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Binky Patrol, an all volunteer, national non-profit organization makes and distributes homemade blankets or “binkies” to children (age 0-18 yearn) born HIV+, drug-addicted, infected with AIDS or other chronic & terminal illnesses as well as those who are abused, in foster care or experiencing trauma of any kind [...]
Join the Get Well Gang and Knit Caps for Cancer Patients
Posted on July 22, 2009 2 Comments
Would you like to start a local chapter of the Get Well Gang in your neighborhood, community or church? This small but caring and sensitive organization seeks to donate comfortable and beautiful knitted hats to cancer patients who are experiencing hair loss. Its mission is to “warm both the heads and the hearts of patients undergoing cancer treatment.” What began with just six hats delivered to a cancer center has expanded to well over 12,000 hats donated throughout Canada and the United States [...]
Prayer Shawl Knitting
Posted on July 14, 2009 Leave a Comment
About 3 years ago, I started a prayer shawl ministry to knit to donate to charity. As part of that one-woman effort, I knitted almost 30 prayer and comfort shawls for the senior citizens in my church and several friends and family members. While most of the patterns I used came from free resources on the web, I did purchase a few of these books to knit a unique prayer shawl for each recipient [...]
Care To Knit
Posted on July 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
Looking for a project to knit to donate to charity? The Care To Knit non-profit organization is a great resource. Its mission is to provide hand knit and crocheted items such as scarves, lap shawls, hats and other related accessories to those in shelters, hospitals, nursing homes and hospices [...]
