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Knit to Donate to Charity
Written by Knitting Stitches on April 10th, 2009
Ever heard of Caps for Kids or Warm Up America? They are just two of the programs you can participate in to knit to donate to charity. Caps for Kids provides children in need with cozy hats to keep them warm. Over one million caps along with other accessories for children have been knitted and crocheted and donated to charity by volunteers since the program began. Warm Up America has touched the lives of the homeless through charitable donations of knitted afghans.
What do these two programs and others like them have in common? Volunteers knit to donate to charity and everyone concerned benefits from their knitting stitches—the giver, receiver and charitable organizations who sponsor their efforts.
What about you? You could share your knowledge and knitting skills by creating beautiful things with needles by hand to donate to charity. If you knit because you love the end result and thereby gain a sense of extreme satisfaction in a job well-done; then others can benefit from your knitting in a way you may not have thought possible when you first learned.
Charity knitting is not a fad or an excuse to justify the time and expense spent on yarn, patterns and related knitting supplies; it is the experience of practical giving from hands and heart to those in need.
Future posts will discuss knitting for charity resources, ideas, projects and places to donate your completed items. There’s something here for the beginner as well as the advanced knitted and everything in between. So, take the plunge, pick up your knitting needles and yarn, find a FREE pattern on the web or one that is featured on this site, and knit…knit…knit to donate to charity.
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