How You Can Help New Mums in UK Learn to Breastfeed
Baby Lifeline in the UK is seeking knitted or crocheted breasts for their midwives and breastfeeding volunteers to use for attachment education. Can you help?
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…
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
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…
One Amazing Way You Can Help Breast Cancer Survivors with Your Knitting
You can improve the lives of breast cancer survivors through 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 and uncomfortable. They cause sweating…