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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 Take Charity Knitting
Local Places to Donate Knitting Supplies
- Helping Hands
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
www.nwwingsoflove.org
- 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
- 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
206/782-6232
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
206 956-9366
- Open Hands Relief in Albania
You can make a difference in the lives of needy children in Albania through
Open Hands Relief
(www.OpenHandsRelief.org), a non-profit organization.
Please contact Teresa Ost at 206-898-7637 or TOst@OpenHandsRelief.org, if you'd like to donate:
hats, mittens or other items.
- 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.com
Shipping 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.
- The Dulaan Project
The Dulaan Project volunteers make and send knitted items for needy and/or
orphaned children in Mongolia. This project is affiliated with the
Flagstaff International Relief Effort (F.I.R.E.), a non-profit organization
that, since 1999, has sent yearly shipments to Mongolia of clothing, medical
supplies, and household goods as well as knitted items.
See Guild Member Ryan Morrissey's knitting blog, "Mossy Cottage Knits," for
updates on the project. A printable flyer that can be distributed is
available, as well as a comprehensive list of (free) patterns. The Mossy
Cottage blog will also contain notices of Seattle gatherings for "knit-ins:"
http://www.nwkniterati.com/movabletype/mossycottage/.
YEARLY DEADLINE: JULY 1ST for shipment to Mongolia each fall. Items
received after July 1st will be saved for the following year's shipment.
Pictures of the fall distribution will be viewable on the Mossy Cottage
blog.
Items needed: hats, sweaters, socks, mittens, vests, neck warmers, scarves,
primarily in children's sizes--ages 2-10. Unknitted fleece blankets are
also requested. (See the pattern list on the blog for directions.)
ALL ITEMS SHOULD BE SENT DIRECTLY TO F.I.R.E.:
FLAGSTAFF INTERNATIONAL RELIEF EFFORT
Meredith Potts, Executive Director
107 N. San Francisco St., Suite 4
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Consult Mossy Cottage knitting blog for an "Inventory Form" you can use to
itemize your garments, or see the F.I.R.E. website,
http://www.fireprojects.org/mongolia_project.htm for additional details.
- 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.com
Local 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.
- 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.
Go to: www.specialknittingforces.org
- 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) 635-1432
- Church 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.net
If you have any questions, or materials that you wish to donate,
please contact:
Ginger Beasley (425) 827-0275 gingerlee@seanet.com
- Angeline'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: Sherry Gerich at (206) 436-8654 if you have any questions or want to make a donation.
The women of Angeline's thank you.
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