Craft for the Purple Stitch Project and Help Epileptic Children

For epileptic children, life with their condition can feel isolating. They can feel as though they aren't control of their own bodies and can't fully participate in the world around them....

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Nimble Fingers on the Prairie Accepts Charity Knitting for Needy Children

During the winter holidays, you often see clothing drives that seem tailor-made for charity knitting. I personally have seen mitten trees, scarf trees, hat trees, and even sock trees - all drives seeking warm winter clothing for children in need....

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Interested in Knitting for Armed Forces? Support Warmth for Warriors

If you are interested in knitting for armed forces to show your support, Warmth for Warriors is a great cause to support....

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Knit for Charity for the D.O.V.E. Fund Bandage Brigade and Offer Dignity to Victims of Leprosy

We knit for charity for so many reasons. We want to make a difference. We want to let others know that when they are suffering, they are not alone. We want to clothe and bring warmth to those who need...

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Knit for Kids Sends Your Handknit Sweaters for Children to Impoverished Children Worldwide

If you enjoy knitting sweaters for children, you may want to consider providing to a knitting charity that has been around for many years....

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Free Preemie Hat Patterns Use Little Yarn and Are Perfect Charity Knitting Projects

Preemie hat patterns are among the most frugal knitting patterns I know of. What I love about knitting preemie hats is that they use very little yarn, so you don't have to buy much yarn to produce even one hat,...

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Knitting Sweaters for Help Kids India Keeps Indian Children Warm

Although knitting sweaters for charity takes a little longer than most charity knitting projects, there's something special about the process. With more time spent knitting, you can put your whole heart into it, your true focus, and when your recipient...

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Military Knitting: Help Soldiers with Knitting and More

Military knitting charities are some of my favorites to support. It's a wonderful feeling to know you are contributing to both the physical and emotional well-being of the overseas troops who do so much to help people like you and...

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Contribute to Project Night Night and Help Homeless Children Sleep in Comfort

How much of a problem is homeless children in America? It is a wretching and sobering statistic: 1 out of 50 American children will be homeless in their lifetime. Homelessness in adults is tragic in itself; factor in homeless children,...

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Give Children a Smile through the Children's Charity "Don't Be Afraid... I Am Here"

Nothing makes my heart ache more than the need for a children's charity. On the other hand, nothing makes me want to act more, either, and I'll bet you're the same way. Recently I found an amazing way to help...

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Knit for the Lemonade Blanket Project and Help Support Kids Fighting Childhood Cancer

You may have heard of Alex's Lemonade Stand, a fundraising campaign to fight childhood cancer that was begun by a little girl named Alex. Alex had cancer, and she decided to start a lemonade stand to help fund a cure...

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Lend a Hand to Former Foster Children through the Red Scarf Project and Foster Care to Success

When I first learned of the Red Scarf Project, I thought, "oh, what a cute idea - knitting scarves for foster children heading off to college." But the more I learned about this extraordinary charity, the more I realized that...

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Knots of Love Distributes Chemo Caps All Over North America

Knots of Love has been in existence since 2007, offering beautifully knit and crocheted chemo caps to patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses all over the country. This wonderful charity unites crafters with patients and their families, helping those...

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Sheila's Shawls and Paul's Scarves Helps Victims of Domestic Violence Violence

Sadly, the victims of domestic violence are not restricted to the women, children, and even men who are abused by their partners or parents. When domestic violence ends in death, it touches children, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and friends. Those...

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Your Charity Knitting Continues to Benefit Natural Disaster Victims through Blankets for the Gulf

Does charity knitting for a hurricane-stricken area seem like a now-or-never proposition? Sometimes it seems as though when we hear about a catastrophic hurricane, we have only a little time to act in our charity knitting efforts....

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Join Click for Babies and Help Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome

Click for Babies is a public health initiative that allows knitters and crocheters to support Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention. While some may be aware of Shaken Baby Syndrome and know that shaking a baby is dangerous and harmful, many others...

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Stitches of Love - a Knitting Charity Supporting All in Need

Stitches of Love is a knitting charity that supports the physical and emotional needs of many. Nearly anyone in a difficult situation in life -- whether it is a difficult pregnancy, a premature birth, a stillbirth, a financial struggle, or...

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Recovery Buddies Encourages You to Knit for Charity to Help People in Recovery

If you love to knit for charity because you enjoy using your hobby to really touch the lives of others and make a difference in a dramatic way, then I think you're going to be really excited about this charity....

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Afghans for Wounded Soldiers Takes Your Charity Knitting to Returning Troops

Knitting squares is such a wonderful charity knitting project. They're quick, easy, and don't use up much yarn (unless you knit a lot of them!). Squares for afghans are used for so many different knitting charities, for many different purposes....

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Knit for Charity Every Year With Knit Michigan's Annual Event

If you live in Michigan, and you love to knit for charity, Knit Michigan is a knitting charity with a very worthwhile mission that you may want to consider supporting....

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Diversify Your Knitting for Charity When You Knit with Springfield Stitches for a Cause

Knitting for charity is especially enjoyable when it helps you feel connected to others. Not only connected to a cause, though that of course a great feeling, but also to other people who are dedicated to the same goals and...

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Charity Knitting for Upon Butterfly Wings Helps Grieving Parents

Losing a child is a true tragedy, and it is many parents' worst nightmare. When a child is lost before or shortly after birth, a potential lifetime of dreams and memories is shattered. When a child is lost any time...

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Support People Fighting Cancer Through Halos for Hope

Today Is Make a Difference Monday... Cancer is an equal opportunity illness. That is to say, it doesn't seem to care about age, gender, ethnicity, or skin color. It can strike anyone at any time and is terribly unforgiving. Currently...

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Cast On With Casting Off the Cold

With Casting Off the Cold, it doesn't matter if you're in Trinidad or Canada, you're going to make a difference. Hobby knitter Sally Karamath was born in Trinidad, where her family frequently helped the poor and homeless. After moving to...

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Street Knit Keeps Toronto Warm

The good folks of Street Knit do what knitters do best: share their talents and dedication with people in need. Every year in Toronto, hundreds of people freeze to death in the harsh Canadian winters because they have nowhere to...

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The Humble Stitch Project Warms Hundreds of Homeless

The Humble Stitch Project is another wonderful grassroots knitting charity. Its members are everyday people with families, day jobs, and obligations who nonetheless make time for charity knitting because they know how much a humble stitch matters. Like so many...

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Everyone Deserves a Smile From Charity Knitting

Everyone Deserves a Smile is a Vancouver based knitting charity built upon the simple idea that kindness grows. It calls itself a grassroots knitting charity and welcomes knitters of any age or description, as well as non-knitters who just want...

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Throw Your Heart into Handmade Especially for You

Handmade Especially For You: words we all love to hear. If you're a knitter, they're probably words you've uttered many times, and seen the smiles that come in response. But what if you'd never received a single gift in your...

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A Ray of Hope for British Babies

Sometimes it's fun to see what knitting charities other countries have, and Ray of Hope is one of the best. It's a British knitting charity that started with a small group of determined individuals and widened to include people from...

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Partnership for Africa Changes Lives

Partnership for Africa is a big charity. They aren't like some of the knitting charities we've covered, which are smaller, individually-led, and tackling local problems. Partnership for Africa is a dedicated organization with a single overriding goal: to help Kenyan...

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Anam Cara Knits For The Smallest Tornado Victims

Anam Cara is an organization dedicated to helping children touched by natural disasters, particularly tornadoes. Lately it seems like there are more natural disasters than ever before, both at home and abroad. We all feel for those who survive (and...

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Calvin's Hats Transform Suffering

The story of Calvin's Hats is tearjerking. A family whose child is born too prematurely to survive discovers, to their dismay, that not only have they lost their child, they can't even dress him properly for burial because even the...

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Relief Share Shares It All

Relief Share knits more than baby cocoons, but the cocoons really set them apart -- there just aren't many charities out there whose mission includes cocooning infants!...

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Knit a Square Knits for Joy

Ever heard of Knit a Square? Surprisingly, I hadn't! It's a big charity with lots of support, and it does amazing work, so when I found out about it, I realized I had to write about it immediately....

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The Preemie Project Knitting Charity

What is the Preemie Project? It's a great way for knitters to show their compassion and help premature infants and their families. You can't go wrong when you're helping the world's littlest children through those tough first weeks and months....

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Knitted Knockers: The Name Says it All

When I first heard of Knitted Knockers, I thought, you've got to be kidding me. A charity that actually knits fake breasts? It just sounded too crazy to be real. But the more I've learned about Knitted Knockers, the more...

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Knitting Charities: Are Prayer Shawls Worth the Effort?

Lending a helping hand to knitting charities is fun and fulfilling. However, knitting charities that get the most help are those that knit fun baby items, simple hats, and scarves and this is certainly fine. I think any time you...

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Knitting Charities Wrap Others with Love

There are many different knitting charities, all started for different reasons to help different people. This charity is different too. Wrap with Love is full of 'nons' -- non-profit, non-denominational, non-racist, and non-political. All this group wants to accomplish with...

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Canadians Knit for Charity to Help the Smallest Victims

When tragedy strikes, the first to suffer are the children. To offer comfort and speed healing, the Canadian chapter of Teddies for Tragedies is coming to the rescue. So far, the Canadian chapter has sent over 1,000 teddies to children...

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Knitting Charity Gives Handmade Hugs

What could be nicer than a knitting charity that gives handmade hugs? Not much and that's exactly what these kind ladies are doing. For fifteen years, these ladies have donated their time and skill to send hugs to those who...

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Knit for Charity and Care for Cooper

You know you're doing a good deed when you knit for charity. Whether you knit for the homeless, abused, or underprivileged, it gives you a great sense of satisfaction. As much as I enjoy knitting for all these causes, charities...

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Knitting for Charity in Canada

When it comes to knitting for charity in Canada, many Canadians have expressed frustration with the limited number of specifically Canadian knitting charities. It seems like there are thousands of ways to knit for charity around the world, but only...

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Join the Oddball Knitters and Knit for Charity

If you want to knit for charity and be in the company of some wonderful people, you need to join the Oddball Charity Knitters on Ralvery. What's so odd about them? Find out....

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Knitting Charities Keep Canadians Warm

Canada is a cold place. Perhaps that's why knitting charities like Blankets for Canada have grown. Or perhaps it's because of the exceptional organizational skills of Nancy Panting, the founder of Blankets for Canada. Or...perhaps it the kind-hearted volunteers who...

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Knitting Charities in Missouri Need Your Help

The 'Show Me' state of Missouri has shown us how great they are with all their knitting charities. Now it's time for us to show them some love and help them help others. Here are some great ways to show...

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Land of 10,000 Lakes or 10,000 Knitting Charities?

Minnesota is known for being the Land of 10,000 Lakes but it could easily change its name to the Land of 10,000 Knitting Charities! If you're looking for knitting charities to join in the great state of Minnesota, look no...

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Knitting Socks for Charity

I love knitting socks, but there are really only so many pairs my family uses. Fortunately, knitting socks for charity is fun, easy, and incredibly appreciated. Whether a pro at knitted socks or a beginner, you're sure to enjoy knitting...

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Help the Hoosiers and Knit for Charity

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....

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Be A Peach and Join Georgia Knitting Charities

It turns out that generous Georgians knit for charity! In the great state of Georgia, knitting charities abound and so do the opportunities for you to join forces with these charities to help those in need....

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Knit for Charity in Hawaii

Knitting on the beach? Knitting and Hawaii just don't seem to go hand-in-hand and yet, you'll find that Hawaiians knit for charity just like knitters in the other 49 states. Find out what these ladies are up to and why...

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Knit for Charity and Help Our Troops

When you knit for charity, you want it to be a worthwhile cause -- something you know is making a difference. If you feel this way, you'll love this project that centers around keeping our troops warm as they protect...

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Create Miles of Smiles when You Knit for Charity

Want to make some deserving kids smile? If you do, then knit for charity and see miles of smiles. The state of Washington is hosting the 2011 Special Olympics. They are expecting 2500 Olympians and Vanessa Hailey wants to give...

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Help Grandparents and Children by Knitting for Charity in Delaware

Delaware is filled with generous people who love knitting for charity and they would love to have you join them. Check out these two very worthwhile causes and begin helping these knitting charities today....

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7,000 Sweaters -- Is this a Charity Knitting Record?

If you look up charity knitting in the dictionary, you may just see the name of Agnes Boyer there. Why? Because this lady has taken knitting for charity to the extreme. As the last original member of The Fountains knitting...

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Want to Become an Angel? Join Knitting Charities

There are knitting charities and then there are knitting charities. All knitting charities are good but some go way above and beyond the call of duty. Such is the case with the Crafty Angels. This group is one busy group...

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Join Arizona Knitting Charities and Lend a Helping Hand

We all know knitting charities touch lives. If you would like to help those in need and happen to live near Arizona (or even if you don't), consider knitting for charities and join one of these...

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Knitting Charities in Alabama

So we at Knitting for Charity are beginning a weekly segment called "Knitting for Charity Across America" featuring knitting charities found in each of the 50 states. So, if you live in Alabama and you're looking for knitting charities, you're...

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Join a Knitting Charity and Save Lives

If you've visited Knitting for Charity before, you know that I think all knitting charities are wonderful and support great causes. We feature knitting charities around the country that benefit people around the world. But every so often, I come...

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Knit for Charity -- Help the Hat Box Foundation

The Hat Box Foundation is a non-profit organization that makes and distributes hand-made hats to people with cancer. They firmly believe that something made from the heart helps heal the human spirit. Every hat is made by volunteers from across...

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Knitting Charity for Breast Cancer Patients

If you're looking for a knitting charity that's just a little bit different, how about Knitting for Knockers! Yep...it's just what you think. This fun knitting project is for charity, but with a twist. Learn how these women are knitting...

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Support Our Wounded Heroes by Joining this Knitting Charity

I truly believe that any knitting charity is a worthwhile charity. Anytime you take your precious time to help someone in need, you are contributing to society in a meaningful way. One way to help people who need and deserve...

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Knit for Charity and Help Kids Read

Want to knit for charity but don't know where to start? Many different knitting charities exist to choose from and find loads of great charities to join on this site. Looking for something a little different and fun, why not...

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How to Grow a Mitten Tree Knitting Charity

Would you like to start your own knitting charity but need some ideas? Starting a knitting charity is a great idea and by starting one, you can help many people, but first you must have an idea. Why not take...

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Help Warm Mongolian Children with this Knitting Charity

If it bothers you knowing that there are children in the world who are cold and without proper winter clothing, this knitting charity is for you. The Dulaan Project started as an effort of the Flagstaff International Relief Effort. Their...

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100 Hats -- 100 Patterns -- Fun Inspiration for Charity Knitting

Do you love charity knitting? I do and I love to find new charities for donations to keep my interest up and keep me churning out knitting projects for people in need. I know there are many other knitters just...

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Join Lilybugs -- Charity Knitting for Babies

Who doesn't love charity knitting for babies? Ask any knitter and one of her favorite things to knit are cute little baby items. A quick task and you get to use the softest and prettiest yarns available. What could be...

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Charity Knitting Keeps Needy Noggins Warm

If you like to knit hats but have run out of people to give them to, this knitting charity is for you. Arkansas Children's Hospital has a great need for hats for their patients. These hats bring a lot of...

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Bring Joy to Mariners at Christmas with This Knitting Charity

Bring love, comfort, and joy to lonely mariners at Christmas time with this knitting charity. Not everyone has the luxury of being home with family and friends during the holidays. Some hard-working souls must keep working so the rest of...

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Help Diabetics with Knitting Charities

Knitting charities abound. This is good. Being kind to one another and helping those in need should be something everyone does. Knitters certainly seem to do their part with all the charity knitting they are involved in, but there is...

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Knitting for Charity Comfort Doll Project

I love knitting for charity. There's nothing like the feeling you get when you know that the gift you are making is bringing joy, happiness, and comfort -- especially if it's to a child. That's exactly what this knitting project...

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Can You Knit a Square Just One Square?

Not only do I love knitting -- I love knitting charities. Knitting projects to use in my home is good. Knitting gifts for loved ones is better, but knowing my knitting is going to help others, especially children, is the...

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Camp Allen: Supporting Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Camp Allen's slogan says it all: Camp Allen -- Discovering abilities since 1931 There are simply not enough places like Camp Allen. Do you know anyone with a developmental disability? Are you acquainted with a family raising a developmentally disabled...

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Healing in All Shades of Pink

All Shades of Pink brings comfort and hope to those with breast cancer. When you hear All Shades of Pink, you probably think of breast cancer -- and rightly so. Pink has become the color of choice for fighting this...

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From the Heart of Texas to a Child's Hands

Whether you live in Texas or New Hampshire, From the Heart of Texas provides a great opportunity for charity knitting Like so many other groups of charitable knitters, From the Heart of Texas started out with a group of friends...

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Afghans for Amigos Carries Knitting Donations to Mexico

Share your joy in creating with impoverished families with Afghans for Amigos Jimmie Lu boasts that Afghans for Amigos can find a home for anything you might make -- and challenges you to try that boast! She and her husband,...

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Bunny Knits Might Mean More Than You Think

Put your needles to work for neglected animals with bunny knits! When you think of bunny knits, you probably think of, well, knitting bunnies -- in other words, toys for small children. And while that's a worthwhile goal, that's not...

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Fantastic Blankets for Teenage Boys

Out of ideas or want something new? Try knitting blankets for teenage boys! Over on Loop Knits, contributors Craig and Laura make an interesting point about blankets for teenage boys: there aren't any! According to Craig, Janet Geissler, head of...

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Great Community Service Ideas for Kids (and Grown-Ups, Too!)

Believe it or not, knitting projects make great community service ideas for children and adults alike! If you're looking for community service ideas for a group of kids -- whether it be a classroom, church group, Scout pack, or what...

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Warming Families: Help Keep a Family Cozy This Winter!

There's nothing harder than seeing your children homeless, but Warming Families is there to provide blankets for those in need. Warming Families is one part of a larger charity called One Heart Foundation. Their goal is to strengthen and help...

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Project H.A.N.D.S. Builds Friendships and Helps Those in Need

Project H.A.N.D.S. links the elderly and the very young, providing homeless children with knitted items. Project H.A.N.D.S is the brainchild of residents from the Retirement Housing Foundation, who wanted a way to give back to the community. Their initial efforts...

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Life 2 Orphans Brings new Life to Ukrainian Orphanages

Among their many projects to help children in need, Life 2 Orphans has set out to knit a hat for every orphan in Ukraine! Life 2 Orphans works with some of the neediest children in the world: those trapped in...

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Bonnie Babies: Helping to Nurture Premature Children

Bonnie Babies is there when grieving or frightened parents need to know someone cares. There's nothing as hard as watching a premature baby struggle to survive. Bonnie Babies makes that struggle just a bit easier by providing blankets and other...

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The Adoption Center of Washington: Bringing Families and Orphans Together

The Adoption Center of Washington is determined to improve the lives of all orphans, not just adopted children. The Adoption Center of Washington does far more than connect hopeful parents with children. It also provides medication and clothing to help...

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Project Angel Kisses Gives Hope to Families With Premature Babies

Project Angel Kisses aims to knit tiny kisses of joy for families with preemie babes! Project Angel Kisses aims to make sure that every parent of a premature child knows that someone is thinking about them and praying for their...

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Clothing Babies with Stitches from the Heart

Premature babies have enough strikes against them, so Stitches from the Heart does its best to send them home with comfy knitted goodies. Knitters, here's your next case: Stitches from the Heart. This California-based non-profit distributes tiny knitted blankets and...

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Socks for Soldiers Puts Socks on the Wartime Feet

New socks are always welcome in any wartime situation, which is why Socks for Soldiers wants to knit a pair for every soldier fighting the War on Terror. All soldiers yearn for care packages from home, and Socks for Soldiers...

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Nurturing Newborns in Need

Premature and newborn babies have a champion in Newborns in Need, which provides everything our littlest ones require, included knitted clothing. Newborns in Need is a most deserving charity, dedicated as it is to fulfilling the needs of premature and...

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Bringing History Alive with Knit Your Bit

During World War II, volunteer knitters were crucial to the war effort. Now they're back at it. Knit Your Bit may be one of the youngest knitting charities out there, but it has a sterling pedigree: its founders patterned it...

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Heavenly Angels in Need: Help for Grieving Parents

Few things are more crushing than the death of a child, especially an infant. But when you need them, Heavenly Angels in Need is there to help shoulder the burden. Some knitting charities touch the heart more than others, and...

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Hats for the Homeless: Keeping NYC Warm

It's bad enough to be homeless, and not having warm clothes just adds injury to insult. That's why Hats for the Homeless provides warm knitted items to the homeless of New York City. Think, for a moment, how cold you...

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Cubs for Kids: Providing Homeless Kids with Well-Dressed Buddies

Homeless kids don't have much to smile about, but Cubs for Kids is out to change that with an army of cute bear cubs, each outfitted in a unique knitted suit. For many of us, a teddy bear was the...

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How Christmas at Sea Helps Mariners Stay Warm

Working on ocean-going vessels is hard, dangerous work, and it's doubly hard in the winter. But Christmas at Sea doesn't let our merchant mariners go forgotten. Christmas at Sea might sound like the title of a lost "Love Boat" episode,...

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Snow Cabin Goods: Rebuilding Lives in the Former Yugoslavia

Bosnia women still haven't completely recovered from their country's devastating civil war, but Snow Cabin Goods is helping then stitch their lives back together. If there's anything that charity knitting proves, it's that even the small things can make a...

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Staring at the Source With Peace Fleece

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...

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Let's Warm Up America! One Square at a Time

From the humblest of origins, Warm Up America! has matured into the best known and largest of American knitting charities. If you can knit a square, you can knit for Warm Up America! It's as simple as that. Maybe that's...

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The Ships Project: Remembering the Troops Far From Home

Wherever American soldiers are stationed in the War on Terror, the Ships Project is there with comfortable knitted items to lift their spirits. It can be hard for a soldier to serve overseas, wondering if anyone back home appreciates what...

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Remembering American Soldiers With Little Red Sweaters

As the American death toll in the Iraq War continues to climb, a charity called Red Sweaters documents the soldier's ultimate sacrifice, one little red sweater at a time. Red Sweaters is one knitting charity that, unlike most, everyone will...

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Care Wear Helps Welcome Preemies into the World

Care Wear gives the tiniest newborns a "head" start with knitted caps made just for them. Have you ever tried knitting a hat for a head the size of a lime? That's one of the challenges faced daily by Care...

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Sheila's Shawls: Shedding Light on Domestic Violence

Sheila's Shawls provides comfort for people who have lost loved ones to domestic violence, one knitted prayer shawl at a time. As every charity knitter knows, our creations can do much more than keep someone warm. They can become a...

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Hugs for Homeless Animals Gives Critters Knitted Love, Too

At Hugs for Homeless Animals, knitted Snuggles make life a little easier for the residents of animal shelters. Homeless critters have it tough. Even in the most humane of shelters, they face overcrowding, Spartan surroundings, and boring lives. With Snuggles...

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Caps for Kids Warms Both Heads and Hearts

An inspired solution to a simple problem, Caps For Kids is the ideal charity for knitters with leftover yarn and lots of compassion. We've all bought an extra ball of yarn for insurance, only to find out it didn't fit...

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Mother Bear Project to the Rescue

Even as HIV/AIDS ravages South Africa, the Mother Bear Project is there to brighten the lives of sad children with hand-knitted bears. Anyone who doubts that knitting can make the world a better place should take a good, long look...

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How Binky Patrol Brings Hope to Suffering Kids

The goal of Binky Patrol is to give every needy child their own security blanket -- no matter who they are, or what they're going through. Break out those needles, folks, it's time to knit a Binky or two. And...

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