Join Forces with Patternworks and Make Your Charity Knitting Count Even More
Today is Make a Difference Monday...
To me, making more effective use of my knitting time, especially when I'm knitting for charity, is a worthy goal. We have just so many hours in a day and just so many dollars in our budgets. Sometimes my heart aches to fill every need I see. I want to warm every little pair of hands with mittens and cover every little head with a hat. If you're like me and love to knit for charity, you might wish you could do even more to fill your favorite charities' coffers.
That's why I know you'll be excited to hear that one of my favorite knitting websites, Patternworks, is joining forces with one of my favorite knitting charities, Warm Up America! Patternworks is collecting knitted and crocheted hats, scarves, and mittens and donating them to Warm Up America to distribute to needy men, women, and children all over the country. Their goal is to collect 2,000 of each item by September 2, 2011--just in time for the upcoming winter.
What I love most about this initiative is that Patternworks has promised that for every donated item knitted or crocheted using Plymouth brand's Encore Worsted yarn, they will make a monetary donation to Warm Up America! To me, that's a double donation. And that's a great use of your time.
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Today's Featured Website:
This website offers exactly what it says -- free patterns. Registration is required (but free), and then you'll have access to an eye-popping array of many beautiful patterns. All patterns are downloadable in PDF format, so they can be saved to your hard drive and printed at your convenience.
The site also offers many free newsletter subscriptions, links to articles, tips and tricks, and much more. It's far more than just a knitting website, it's a website for any kind of crafter. So if you enjoy other types of crafting in addition to knitting, it's perfect for you; but if you stick to knitting, it will have just what you need as well!
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Today's Featured Product:
One-Skein Wonders by Judith DurantThis book is a great way to use those orphan balls in your stash - leftovers from a project requiring multiple balls, impulse buys at the yarn shop when the yarn was too beautiful to resist but too expensive to buy more than one, or even gifts from kind friends and family who know of your love of knitting. It's also great for gift patterns for friends or family, or for new patterns to make for charity!
