Comments on: Charity Knit & Crochet-Along: Getting Started

By: birgit1040

birgit1040 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:38:08 +0000

Marti, good for you. I have found scrap to make some of the most beautiful and warming comfort out there. So you keep going!!! I know I will! :]
Have a great day!!
Birgit
Oh my first box posted on crafty angel if you want to see. Here is the site thingy!
http://www.crafty-angels.blogspot.com/
The rest of the scarfs will have to wait till till the box is full, I’m angel, lol, Birgit Yacoub in Champaign.

By: Marti

Marti — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:40:48 +0000

I make easy crocheted caps and scarves out of scrap yarn for the homeless shelters. I got started on this when a Walmart store went out of business and sold all their yarn for 50cents a skein. I really like the way the verigated yarns work up.

By: Lilita

Lilita — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:58:10 +0000

What I would like is to knit along again a different pattern, but of the same book as the one Shrug of May it is so gorgeous that I repeat it in white for my granddaughter, who is eager to wear it while returning to school. I’ll take a picture and will be sent to the blog.
(I use to make little shoes for the needed little ones (a local charity)).

Zontee says: Hi Lilita, thanks for commenting. As I’ve said in response to your previous comments, we will be doing a new knit-along in the fall. However, this summer, we want to concentrate on giving back to others.

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By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:38:30 +0000

I, also, had a head start on a charity project, since reading about the knit-a-square group in one of the Lion Brand newsletters. (You can also crochet-a-square). I have 17 8×8″ squares done so far and hope to be over 25 or 30 by the time the KAL is done. On their website (www.knit-a-square.com) they also have patterns for vests, hats and sweaters. The Soweto Comfort Club collects the squares and joins them into blankets for children who are AIDS victims. This disease is an epidemic in southern Africa that has left many children sick, orphaned and in dire need of basic requirements.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:22:53 +0000

I decided to take on a summer charity project early in June, so I am a bit ahead of the game. I have been knitting baby blankets for the Ronald McDonald House in my area. My goal is to complete one a month for June, July and August. I am about to complete my second blanket. I am using the Lion Brand Pound of Love.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:31:34 +0000

I am knitting newborn baby layette sets (sweater, hat, and booties) to donate to my local chapter of the Christ Child society. They give these to at risk new moms in the hospital. I wanted to do a local charity and I found this one over the winter. I have finished 3 sets and am currently working on my 4th.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:39:50 +0000

Many knitters pass on without a plan for their stash and tools. Our guild was recently invited to take posession of a carload(!) of supplies by a family member. We each bought some of it, and we’ll be using the rest to make newborn clothes for our local maternity ward. The nurses are upset that some newborns are discharged in nothing but a diaper and a blanket, since their mothers cannot afford more.
Many churches in your community do not have a ministry that uses yarn, and may get offers from bereaved or strangers to donate yarn. Contact them with a letter of reference, and they may be very grateful to know where to send the yarn.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:45:37 +0000

When a friend and I started looking at our department could do as part of a corporate volunteering project, we found Knit One, Give One.

It operates in Melbourne, Australia and has several thousand knitters working with yarn donated by local yarn company, Cleckheaton. The knitters and crochetters make up a variety of beanies, scarfs and gloves from the yarn provided when they sign up or from their own stash.

The items are returned to the Pharmacies participating in the project for distribution to Aids charities, Homeless and Domestic Violence Refuges and recently added, Victorian Bushfire Victim Assistance groups.

I find many of the projects we have completed are fantastic for doing on buses and trains as I travel to work. Some collegues are so involved in the project that they are buying yarn at lunchtime so they can start a new project on the way home.

By: birgit1040

birgit1040 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:58:00 +0000

Hi Everyone! My name is Birgit, and I crochet and knit for Crafty Angels in chicago. I have some hats,scarf, washcloths etc. ready to go but the box is not full. So I am going to make scarfs for men since we are always short on them. This sounds like a blast. Will there be a place to show pics? Well if not, mine you can see at http://www.crafty-angels.blogspot.com/
Hope you will put up the place/site were we can see yours!
Have a great day everyone!!