This young boy in Kosovo look very pleased with his clown.
This young boy in Kosovo look very pleased with his clown.
Charities seeking knitters |
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| Christian Hope International | Their Stitches of Hope project requires hand-knitted goods for containers going to India and several countries in Africa. |
| Bonnie Babies | Bonnie Babies makes and sends tiny premature clothing and sadly burial outfits to UK Special Baby Care Units, also to parents who need this support. |
| Charity Clowns | Hope and Aid Direct loved the knitted clowns they were given launched the clowns website to encourage more knitters. Knitting clowns is a real challenge, but think of the smiles they'd bring. |
| Missions to Seafarers | Missions to Seafarers Knitting patterns there are hats, balaclava, mittens etc. |
| Feed The Children | Check the Feed the Children knitting page to find out what they're needing at the moment. |
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Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan's Purse) |
Operation Christmas Child is a world-wide operation. Most UK shoe-boxes go to Eastern European countries where EU regulations unfortunately mean that they cannot include hand-made stuffed toys. i.e. teddies.
If you would like to knit something for a shoe-box there are plenty
knitting patterns including glove-puppets on their website. |
| Ray of Hope | Patterns and more about knitting for premature babies. |
| Cuddles | A volunteer, non-profit organisation based in the UK who support the families dealing with the loss of their baby through miscarriage or stillbirth. |
| Check before knitting and/or sending to these charities, needs change and we don't want to flood them with things they can't use. | |
Websites that might help in your search |
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| Loving Hands | Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group has over 200 like minded individuals who knit, sew and crochet for various charities. |
| Head Huggers |
A charity of volunteers making, collecting, and distributing chemo caps to be donated free of charge to those who need them. Patterns are available on the website for crochet, knit, and sewn hats. The website has links to more possible charity knitting projects. |
| Jean Greenhowes | There are free patterns on the site you can find them at Jean Greenhowe free patterns but you may be tempted to buy others they're rather special. |
| Knitting for Charity | Find out what others are doing. Also many different ideas on how to make a blanket. |
| If you know what you want to knit but don't have a pattern, put "free knitting patterns" into your search engine (Google) there are plenty to be found. | |
Patterns to downloadDownload and use them for the charity of your choice. |
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| Aids Jumper | Tiny Teddy | Children's Mittens |
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Patterns are PDF files and you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them. If you need to you can download it here. 
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Making blanket squares? Ensure they're all the right size by knitting them diagonally. Cast on 1 stitch. Increase, by knitting into the front and back of the loop. Continue to increase at the beginning every row row, until the side is the correct size. Work one more increase row. Then decrease by knitting two together at the beginning of each row until 1 stitch remains. Break off yarn and draw through the final loop. |
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6th December 2009