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 cancer has no cure, though it can be treated and sent into remission.
Cancer can strike a college professor with a passion for knitting and designing knitwear. And so it has; her name is Susan Anderson-Freed. She is the author of Colorful Creations as well as a retired computer science professor. She knits right through her illness and even has a portion of the proceeds from her book attend to cancer research.
She is the author of Today's Featured Product and should serve as an inspiration to all knitters. Today's Featured Charity tackles the traces left by cancer and chemotherapy. We've talked before about how hair loss can create discomfort of its own - hairlessness means a lack of cushioning for sleep as well as the loss of warmth. From the founder of today's charity we learn that losing hair has discomfort, if not pain, in itself. Her own experiences led her to create this charity and help others who are going through what she had to go through.
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Today's Featured Knitting Book
Colorwork Creations by Susan Anderson-Freed
Beautiful patterns, clear instructions, inspiring projects: this book has it all. It contains a lovely assortment of designs that recall creatures of nature and woodland memories. And 15% of the book's royalties go towards the center that treated the author: Mid-Illinois Hematology & Oncology Associates.
Today's Featured Charity
Pam Haschke was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. Three years later, after successful fighting the disease and emerging cancer-free, she founded Halos for Hope. This charity is dedicated to offering those fighting cancer as she did the chance to experience what she did -- the loving, warming touch of hand-knitted hats.
Halos for Hope collects and distributes such hats to those undergoing chemotherapy. It also accepts financial donations to assist with this mission. Such donations help to defray the costs of shipping the handmade hats.
Today's Featured Pattern
Here is a beautiful chemo cap that can be made using variegated yarn.
