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Charity Knitters Help Knitted Knockers Spread to the UK

It has been such a privilege to join up with charity knitters all around the world! Since taking over Knitting for Charity and the Knitting Nuggets Newsletter, I have heard from knitters everywhere: all over the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, even countries where English isn’t their first language. Isn’t it wonderful how knitting…

Knitting Charities Around the World | Knitting Charities by Recipient | Prosthetics/Anatomy

Charity Knitting as an Educational Tool: Knitted Uteri to Train Ethiopian Midwives

Charity knitting usually offers its benefits in practical and tangible ways: warming heads, hands, feet, and bodies through hats, mittens, socks, and blankets. But would you ever imagine charity knitting to offer its benefits in educational ways?

Here’s an Amazing Way to Help Breast Cancer Survivors
Cancer Patients | Knitting Charities by Donation Item | Knitting Charities by Recipient | Prosthetics/Anatomy

Here’s an Amazing Way to Help Breast Cancer Survivors

Join with Knitted Knockers to offer comfortable breast prostheses to women who’ve survived breast cancer and had mastectomies For many women, breast cancer is their worst nightmare. Of course, the “c-word” is terrifying for any person, man or woman. But when cancer strikes the breast, it strikes a part of the body that for many…

Cancer Patients | Knitting Charities by Donation Item | Knitting Charities by Recipient | Prosthetics/Anatomy

How to Help Breast Cancer Survivors with Your Knitting

Find out how you can improve the lives of breast cancer survivors through the innovative Knitted Knockers Charities Chesley Flotten was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer during the pregnancy of her first child. She underwent a mastectomy and, like many women,  discovered the problems with prosthetic breasts. Problem one: silicone breast prosthetics are heavy…