CHARITY KNITTING
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. You can volunteer on a semester by semester basis.
Call 503/325-4749
Or email through the website: www.helpinghandsprogram.org
Or write to:
Helping Hands
P.O. Box 813
Astoria, Oregon 97103 -
Northwest Wings of Love
Northwest Wings of Love knits, crochets, sews, etc. for Pacific Northwest charities.
Our little group would like to help you spread the word! If your charity provides handmade items to groups all over the country or world, please go to www.drizzle.com/~hathorn/nwwol/charities.htm and click 'Get your PNW charity listed'.
People who knit, sew and crochet visit our site for ideas where to volunteer in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon). We need your information to help them out!
Contact: Nan Hawthorne (425) 398-3741
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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. All knitters are most welcome to participate.
Volunteers are free to come for an hour or two if they wish--it is not necessary to stay for the entire time. The chemo cap pattern is provided, as well as the yarn--although donations are always welcome. Bring a pair of circular needles. Help with the pattern is available.
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
Do you knit, crochet, sew or quilt? Warming Families can help you put that skill to Good use by giving handmade afghans, shawls, crib quilts, other warming items to kids, adults and seniors in local shelters and senior programs.
We will always accept donations of your leftover and overrun yarn, fabric and tools!
Warming Families is an all volunteer not-for-profit organization with dozens of local chapters.
Visit www.warmingfamilies.org for more information and to locate other Warming Families Coordinators in the Puget Sound area.
Or email Dianne Krueger at angels_heart82@yahoo.com for information on how to get started.
Places to Send Charity Knitting:
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Noel House or Rose of Lima House
Noel House programs are a network of emergency shelters for single women in Seattle. They are 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 up to two years of transitional housing to 13 single women at a time, 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
12718 - 15th NE
Seattle, 98125 -
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.
To join the mailing list, call, write or donate a baby hat, booties, blanket or sweater. The group also publishes a newsletter free of charge to new members.
Write to:
"Stitches from the Heart"
3306 Pico
Santa Monica, CA 90405
The email address is StitchFromHeart@aol.comLocal coordinator is Julie Thompson: see roster for telephone number. Julie also schedules local "teas" and accepts knitted items then or you can mail your donations to her in Seattle. Once you're on the Stitches from the Heart mailing list you'll get notice of upcoming teas.
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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:
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.
Our guild raises money for this program by selling handmade scarves. In order to enable us to donate 100% of the proceeds, we need yarn - the fun, furry, lash and novelty yarns. Our overall cost this year will exceed $1,000, so we need your help!
Children’s Lactation Support Services provides breastfeeding education and assistance for mothers whose babies are being cared for at Children’s Hospital.
The Lactation Support Services’ team is made up of twenty nurses, dieticians, physical therapists and occupational therapists, who provided 725 mother/baby visits in 2003.
The team needs equipment, including highly sensitive scales, mobile breast pumps, and breast models/dolls. The team also needs funds for providing training and skill development for nurses and other patient care staff so that they can support and educate breastfeeding mothers, and funds to support continuing education for lactation service team members.
Contact: Terry DiMaio
Casting On For Kids Guild
terry.dimaio@seattlechildrens.org
(206) 987-2153
(800) 635-1432Church of Mary Magdalene
The Church of Mary Magdalene is a congregation for women, striving to be safe, accepting, caring, loving, sharing, supportive, and therapeutic.
It is for women who are struggling to be free from multiple difficulties, including homelessness, poverty, and abusive treatment. It is ecumenical and non-denomination. All women, with or without Christian faith, are welcome.
As part of their therapeutic program, the women enjoy doing crafts.... including knitting and crocheting. Many of them make and sell things at Bazaars and Craft Shows around the Seattle area, generating in a small income for themselves. They depend on the generosity of others to supply most of the materials which they use.
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.netIf you have any questions, or materials that you wish to donate, please contact:
Ginger Beasley (425) 827-0275 gingerlee@seanet.comAngeline's Center for Homeless Women
Angeline's Center for Homeless Women provides hygiene, meals, medical care and mental health counseling, as well as activities, in a nurturing community environment open to all women. Several of the women started a knitting and crocheting circle, which has grown into an all embracing community activity. Women can be found working on their projects all through the day. The self-esteem, socialization skills and sense of belonging this has created has lead to changes in many women's lives. The original donation of yarn which made this possible is depleted. To keep this activity going, we are seeking 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).
Feel free to call: Resource Coordinater at (206) 436-8672 if you have any questions or want to make a donation.
The women of Angeline's thank you.