This young boy in Kosovo look very pleased with his clown.
This young boy in Kosovo look very pleased with his clown.
Patterns to downloadDownload and use them for the charity of your choice. |
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| Newborn Jumper/Dress | Children's Mittens | T Jumper in 7 Sizes |
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| Clown Hand Puppet | 8 inch blanket squares (diagonal) | |
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Make a loop. Increase, by knitting into the front and back of the loop. Increase one stitch at the beginning every row, until the edge is 8". Decrease by knitting two together at the beginning of each row until 1 stitch remains. Break off yarn and draw through the final loop. Leave long tails for sewing up. When you have enough for a large blanket, Sew squares together and crochet an edge. |
All patterns are PDF files and you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them. Download it here.
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Charities seeking knitters |
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| Loving Hands | Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group has over 1000 like minded individuals who knit, sew and crochet for various charities, they are always looking to recruit more. |
| Knit a Square NEW | Quote from their website, go there for details. "Do you love crocheting and knitting for charity? Make and send 8"/20cm squares and help keep a cold AIDS orphan warm." |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Feed The Children | Feed the Children have been so successful with donations of knitting that they are not accepting any more at the moment. |
| 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. | |
Other websites to try |
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| 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. | |
31st July 2011