Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Charity knitting, anyone?
Since the holidays are over, it's a good time to do a few projects for charity. There are zillions of shawl ministries around the country, donating shawls to babies in hospital nurseries, children on pediatric wards, and cancer patients. Read Lion Brand's page about them and maybe order their book with lots of appropriate patterns. Woolworks publishes a list of charity sites organized by state. Interweave has a page on their webiste called Knitting for a Better World listing literally hundreds of organizations that welcome knitted donations. And then there are specific deserving issues like the recent tsunami and now one that's just come to my attention called the Dulaan Project about helping keep extremely impoverished people warm in the upcoming frigid Mongolian winter; the Dulaan site includes patterns as well as other sites doing work for Mongolia. I was thinking it might be neat for knitting groups like mine at work, or regulars at local yarn stores, to donate as a group. Look at it this way: there's plenty of time to make stuff and give it away and make other people feel good which will make us feel good too.
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