Knit for babies in need and their families alongside Newborns in Need; they provide everything tiny ones require, included knitted clothing In 1992, Carol Green read a shocking statement from a magazine: newborns that died in infancy had to be buried in paper sacks or discarded with medical waste. It sounds callous, but the reason…
During World War II, volunteer knitters were crucial to the war effort. Now Knit Your Bit encourages us to knit for veterans. When my daughters were younger, we loved to read American Girl books together. We owned the Kirsten Larson series and the Molly McIntire series. By pure serendipity, our first Molly McIntire book was…
Knit for Hats for the Homeless and provide warm knitted items for homeless folks in New York City. John Carroll was a young man with a mission. Once upon a time, he gathered a group of friends together during the holiday season. They would wander through New York City and distribute toasty gloves, scarves, and…
Working on ocean vessels is hard, dangerous work, and it’s doubly hard in the winter. But Christmas at Sea ensures mariners are remembered during the holiday season. When you hear words like “sailor,” “seaman,” or “mariner,” do you envision “Old Man and the Sea,” “Moby Dick,” or maybe “The Perfect Storm”? These are all romanticized…
Even dedicated charity knitters often don’t think about the source of the yarn they knit with, but at Peace Fleece, that’s where charity begins. All veteran knitters know how a donated knitted item can perk up a needy soul or even change their life. But how often do we think of the yarn itself as…
If you can knit a square, you can knit for charity with Warm Up America Warm Up America was the first knitting charity I ever heard of. When I had just started knitting, a friend of mine from church knew someone who knitted extensively for Warm Up America. She brought me a folder filled with…
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