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Knitting for charity
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Hello all - long time no speak and all that. I'm hiding out in Oxford working hard and knitting my Christmas presents!
In between knitting Christmas presents I've been working on hats and scarves for the people who visit the homeless shelter I work at in North London and so I wanted to ask if any of you would consider helping me out? Anything we receive before the end of March will be passed on to one of our guests. Anything left over at the end will be either sold to raise funds for the shelter next year, or given to another charity who can make use of it.
If you think that sounds like your thing please have a look at the info on my blog here. The thing that always strikes me, working for C4WS, is the diversity of the guests. They are of all ages and backgrounds and 47% last year were under 25 (i.e. the same age as YouthNet's service users).
For wider discussion, do you make things for charity? What do you enjoy about it? Or is knitting all about making something for someone you know and channelling their personality and your creative energy into something unique?
I used to sit up at night during the shelter and knit hats for people who either didn't have one or needed a new one and I was amazed how much it meant to the guests that someone had invested time in their wellbeing. I accidentally reduced a man in his fifties to tears...
(Thanks to **Helen** for allowing me to share this.)
In between knitting Christmas presents I've been working on hats and scarves for the people who visit the homeless shelter I work at in North London and so I wanted to ask if any of you would consider helping me out? Anything we receive before the end of March will be passed on to one of our guests. Anything left over at the end will be either sold to raise funds for the shelter next year, or given to another charity who can make use of it.
If you think that sounds like your thing please have a look at the info on my blog here. The thing that always strikes me, working for C4WS, is the diversity of the guests. They are of all ages and backgrounds and 47% last year were under 25 (i.e. the same age as YouthNet's service users).
For wider discussion, do you make things for charity? What do you enjoy about it? Or is knitting all about making something for someone you know and channelling their personality and your creative energy into something unique?
I used to sit up at night during the shelter and knit hats for people who either didn't have one or needed a new one and I was amazed how much it meant to the guests that someone had invested time in their wellbeing. I accidentally reduced a man in his fifties to tears...
(Thanks to **Helen** for allowing me to share this.)
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The only other charity knitting I've done is for the Innocent Big Knit for Age UK, I knitted 30 little hats that go on Innocent Fruit Smoothies.
Where do I send it to once I'm done? Or can I drop it off somewhere?
If you PM me when you're done I'll let you know where to send it. At the moment it's all coming to my house whilst we try to persuade one of the the churches to store it!
(may not be a quick at knitting as Randomgirl though!)
edit: haven't got enough wool
If you need a pattern there are loads of free ones on sites like knitty.com and Ravelry. Try to knit neutral patterns in larger sizes, most of our guests are male.
We'll take anything and the shelter runs until February so there's loads of time :-)
Also I hope it has a bit of stretch or you may have to donate it to a teenage charity...
I can cast on but struggle to cast off.
It's all right, I'm sure it will fit someone. Although most of our guests are male, we do have a number of women.
It's possibly a bit small- just about fits my (admittedly, rather large) head!
Hope it's of use for you
Well done you