Help the Hoosiers and Knit for Charity
Knit for charity and help those in need in Indiana
Do you live in Indiana? If you do, why not become a helpful Hoosier and knit for charity? Listed below are several great knitting charities to get you on the road to helping others and making their lives better.
Newborns in Need
If you like knitting baby items, the national organization of Newborns in Need has a local chapter located in central Indiana. As you know, Newborns in Need, is a non-denominational knitting for charity group that supplies essential items to needy newborns. Some of these items are blankets, burial layettes, caps, and booties.
If you would like to begin knitting for charity and like to knit baby items, this is a good place to start. Contact Linda Barker at the Central Indianan Chapter for more information.
Central Indiana
PO Box 78
10645 2nd Street
Upland, IN 46989
Contact: Lynda Barker
(417) 967-9441
Women's Care Center
There are many different knitting charities that meet many different needs. The Women's Care Center is a pregnancy counseling service that offers free pregnancy testing and support. This South Bend, Indiana service helps more than 3,000 women each year and needs help supplying clothing for the women they serve.
They are in need of hand-knit baby items from newborn size to 2T. You may knit any item a baby or child in this size range can use. Please mail your donations to the following address:
Women's Care Center
305 South Chapin Street
South Bend, IN 46625
Charity knitting and crocheting
Along with their big hearts, these ladies have big visions. This online group is located in Lawrenceburg, IN and connects knitters and crocheters to knitting charities. These ladies all work on different projects for different charities, but work together to spread the word and help charities around the world.
If you would like to begin knitting for charities but aren't sure which direction you would like to go, join this group for ideas and suggestions.
Clothed in Compassion
Wintertime in Indiana is often bitterly cold. With this in mind, the ladies of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bristol, Indiana offer clothing to families in the area. All donations are given to the needy families with no expectation of payment of any kind.
The biggest need Clothed in Compassion has is mittens, hats, and scarves. Contact Betty Lou Kline for the mailing address to send your donations.
Forever Warm
When I heard the name of this organization, I was thinking along the lines of the cold winters in Indiana. When I realized what the name truly meant, it made me sad. Forever Warm is a knitting charity that provides baby blankets to hospitals and funeral homes for parents that have lost a baby to stillbirth or complications following birth.
Summer Magner founded Forever Warm after the stillbirth of her baby boy. The gift of a hand-knit blanket for her baby, Tatum, touched her and she keeps it for the memory of her baby.
Touched by the thoughtfulness of the blanket, Summer was inspired to make blankets for other grieving parents. Summer encourages the parents to use the hand-knit blankets for the burial of their babies to keep them, 'forever warm' or to keep as a memory of their sweet baby.
Summer and the parents who receive them appreciate any donations of hand-knit baby blankets. Contact Summer Magner for more information.
If you live in Indiana and know how to knit, there's no excuse not to knit for charity. These great charities help many people. Join them and make the world a better place.
