More Knitting for Charity Options- Add Your Charity to the List
I know there are so many wonderful knitters out there who are knitting for charity so I’m starting this page to post new charities as I find out about them. I’ll add the link to 
the right side of my blog so it can be easily found.
If you knit for a certain charity and you’d like to see it listed here, please use the contact form or just add as a comment to the article.
The first charity on my new list is:
The Central Ohio Binky Patrol. Lisa Woodruff sent me this info and her contact information if you’d like to help this group.
The Central Ohio Binky Patrol collects blankets, hats, scarves, baby booties, and handmade toys. Lisa told me, “We are also in the middle of a huge project right now and could use lots of help. We’re trying to collect 600 hats for Snowball Express, an organization that helps children of fallen military heroes. Thanks for helping to spread the word!”
If you’d like to contact this group, email her
centralohiobinkypatrol@windstream.net
Mailing address:
Ohio Binky Patrol
640 Evans Street
Newark, OH 43055
Website: http://centralohiobinkypatrol.weebly.com
The national headquarters of the Binky Patrol is in my home state of Oregon:
Binky Patrol, Inc
PO Box 652Beaverton, OR 97075
503-214-8346
I’ll be adding new charities as I find them.
I love animal causes and I came across two suggestions for knitters who love animals on the blog Knitting for Charity.org.
The first idea is to contact your local animal shelter or Humane Society and find out if they would like some warm knitted blankets for their puppies and kittens. Ask about sizes and let them know how many of these you would be able to provide. Use washable, durable acrylic yarns for your projects and get the word out to other knitters you know.
The second animal charity in need of knitted items also comes from Knitting for Charity.org. The Companion Animal Network would love to have knitted blankets, toys, pet sweaters and doggie ponchos for the animals they care for. If you’d like to make items like scarves and hats, they can also sell these to raise money which goes toward caring for the animals.
The Companion Animal Network is totally run by volunteers who foster dogs and cats until they are placed for adoption. Contact info is on their website.
This charity was contributed by a reader, Sandy. Cole’s Foundation provides gifts for children with cancer and Sandy recently took up knitting to make hats for the kids. If you’d like to help, you can contact them through the website.
If you have a favorite charity that you like to knit for, let me know and I’ll post it here, or leave info in the comments.
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March 28th, 2011
I just made 2 hats for charity out of the same red yarn in the picture. They are going to the Hebron House in Wisconsin.
March 28th, 2011
I loved that yarn. Very easy to work with. That particular hat and scarf went to my granddaughter at Christmas but want to do more for the kids at the homeless shelter in our town.
June 30th, 2011
Hi Joan,
I have just begun to loom knit. I don’t know much, BUT I love it!!!
I would like to have our charity added to your list. We sent gifts to kids with cancer. I would love to have hats for them.
Thank you for your consideration.
I am going to try your slouchy hat pattern.
Sincerely,
Sandy Daron
June 30th, 2011
Hi Sandy,
I think you’ll find loom knitting is pretty addicting. You can make lots of scarves and hats very easily.
I would be very glad to add your charity to our listing. It looks like a wonderful thing for children with cancer.
Thanks for your help!
Joan
March 28th, 2012
Hugs from the Heart is a new volunteer-driven program within All-Heart’s hospice program (Norfolk, VA) and we are in need of volunteer knitters, crocheters and loom weavers from across the country to help us make blankets for our hospice patients. It’s a gift from the heart that shows our patients we care about them and the hospice journey they’re on.
To complete these blankets, Hugs from the Heart needs eight inch squares: knitted, crocheted, or loom woven from any kind of yarn and in any pattern. Since these squares are for patients, soft and cuddly yarns are the most appropriate. The individual squares will be joined with other donated squares to make blankets for our hospice patients. It takes 30 individual squares to make a single full–sized blanket.
There’s nothing special to purchase. If you have a selection of yarn that you bought in a rush and don’t know what to do with it, turn it into Hugs from the Heart squares. It’s a great stash buster project, and as crafty people already know, if you use up your yarn, then you’ve made room for new yarn to replace it! Use Hugs from the Heart as a way to learn a new stitch, to practice a stitch that’s been giving you a hard time, or teach a friend how to knit or crochet.
Even non-crafty people can help Hugs from the Heart. If you aren’t a knitter or can’t crochet, you can donate yarn to a knitter, crocheter or send it to All-Heart’s address as listed below. A single skein of yarn will make several Hugs from the Heart squares.
Spread the word! We rely on people to tell people who will tell more people about us. If you have questions, call or email Amy Kelly at 757-961-0049 or amy@allhearthomehealth.com.
Finished squares can be mailed to:
Amy Kelly
All-Heart Home Health & Hospice
http://www.allhearthomehealth.com
410 North Center Drive
Bldg. 9, Ste. 102
Norfolk, VA 23502