CHARITY KNITTING
Opportunities for Charity Knitting
Our guild advertises charities which support our local community or are actively championed by a member of the guild. Our guild members support a wide range of charities across the globe, adding new ones all the time. Should a member take up your cause, we will be happy to add a link to our page.There are many ways to help others using your knitting.
On this page you will find:
Local Seattle Knitting Volunteer Opportunities
Places to Send Charity Knitting
Local Places to Donate Knitting Supplies
Local Seattle Knitting Volunteer Opportunities:
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Needle Arts Mentors
After school mentoring program teaching young children knit and crochet skills at Olympic View Elementary School in Seattle. Program also accepts donations of money and/or yarn.
Call 503/325-4749 Or email through the website: www.helpinghandsprogram.org
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Northwest Wings of Love
Northwest Wings of Love knits, crochets, sews, etc. for Pacific Northwest charities.
Contact: Nan Hawthorne (425) 398-3741 www.nwwingsoflove.org
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FamilyWorks
Come join this knitting group and knit items for homeless children. All levels of knitters welcome! We meet every Tuesday, 11:00am to Noon at the Wallingford Community Center, 1501 N. 45th
Call group leader Nazneen D'souza at 675-0501 for more information
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Phinney Friends
Friends meets weekly on Thursday mornings from 10 - 11:30 to crochet and knit lap robes and shawls for nursing home patients. Anyone is welcome to knit or crochet with them and/or donate acrylic yarns.
Building A of the Phinney Neighborhood Center
6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle 98103
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Overlake Cancer Research Center
This group in Bellevue sponsors a group knitting project for persons interested in knitting chemo caps for cancer patients. Group meets every Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Cancer Resource Center, 1135 - 116th NE., Suite 240, Bellevue.
Questions? call the Overlake Cancer Resource Center, 425/688-5986 and ask about the chemo caps knitting circle.
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Warming Families
Knit, crochet, sew or quilt handmade afghans, shawls, crib quilts, other warming items to kids, adults and seniors in local shelters and senior programs.
Visit www.warmingfamilies.org to locate Coordinators in the Puget Sound area.
Or email Dianne Krueger at angels_heart82@yahoo.com for information on how to get started.
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Places to Send Charity Knitting:
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Noel House or Rose of Lima House
Noel House is the largest women-only shelter provider in Seattle, giving shelter and referrals to over 200 women each night. www.noelhouse.org
Rose of Lima House offers transitional housing to single women, with intensive case management and life skills training to help women get back on their feet and find permanent housing, permanently. www.rosehouse.org
Contact: Dorothy Finlay, Fund Developer
Noel House Programs/Rose of Lima House
120 Bell Street
Seattle, WA 98121
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Afghans for Afghans
This group collects knit and crocheted blankets, hats, socks, mittens and sweaters to send to Afghan refugees displaced in Tajikistan.
Mailing address:
Afghans for Afghans
c/o American Friends Service Committee Collection Center
65 - 9th St., San Francisco, CA 94103
The email address is afghans4Afghans@aol.comShipping dates are updated regularly and found on the website. See www.afghans forafghans.org for dates and further details such as color, materials, design suggestions and patterns.
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Rosehedge
Rosehedge is an HIV and AIDS housing and health care residence. They welcome knitted donations for residents, especially machine washable afghans and socks and slippers sized for men.
Call 206/365-6806
Or mail or deliver items to:
Rosehedge
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Stitches from the Heart
Stitches from the Heart is a non-profit charity, collects booties, blankets and hats for infants and sends them to hospitals in the United States from over 2,000 members.
"Stitches from the Heart"
3306 Pico
Santa Monica, CA 90405
The email address is StitchFromHeart@aol.com
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Special Knitting Forces
Special Knitting Forces collects hand-knit items for babies and children in Afghanistan. Free patterns are provided on its website, as well as other information.
Local Places to Donate Knitting Supplies:
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Casting On For Kids
The Casting On For Kids Guild is a 501c(3) non-profit organization, which raises money to benefit Lactation Support Services at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, needs yarn - the fun, furry, lash and novelty yarns.for handmade scarves.
Contact: Terry DiMaio terry.dimaio@seattlechildrens.org
(206) 987-2153
(800) 635-1432
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Church of Mary Magdalene
The Church of Mary Magdalene is for women who are struggling to be free from multiple difficulties. They depend on others to supply the knitting and crocheting materials they use to generate a small income for themselves.
The Church is located in the basement of the First United Methodist Church:
Fifth & Columbia Seattle (alley entrance off Columbia Street)
Phone: (206) 621-8474
Email: magch@earthlink.net
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Angeline's Center for Homeless Women
The knitting and crocheting circle at Angeline's Center for Homeless Women needs donations of yarn, crochet hooks and knitting needles
Angeline's Center for Homeless Women is located at 2030 3rd Ave. between Virginia and Lenora in downtown Seattle (a block north of the Bon).
Resource Coordinater at (206) 436-8672 if you have any questions or want to make a donation.
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A New Yarn
A non profit yarn store called A New Yarn, we support Northwest Family Life, our proceeds go to support women and children that are touched by domestic violence. Also accepts donations of knitting supplies and needles.
A New Yarn
12345 Roosevelt Ave NE
Seattle, WA. 98125Coordinator: (206) 367-1112 if you have any questions or want to make a donation.