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| <h5 align="center"><big><font COLOR="#000080">Charity Page</font></big><font SIZE="2" COLOR="#000080"><b></h5> | |
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| </big>Need ideas, or where to send that yarn or finished blanket? Or maybe that unused | |
| machine?<br> | |
| The information below may help you...<br> | |
| Warm some tiny hands<br> | |
| And you'll warm your heart...<br> | |
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| <p>This group needs donations of used machines and yarn to continue this worthwhile | |
| mission!<br> | |
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| <i>Fiber Arts Ministry of the Quincy Free Methodist Church</i><br> | |
| "Our church has started a machine knitting group with 3 machines. We live<br> | |
| in an agricultural area that has many poor families and transient workers.<br> | |
| We knit hats and mittens for these kids. In order to get more people<br> | |
| involved, I was looking for a way to reach machine knitters that have old<br> | |
| machines tucked away in their closets. <br> | |
| Our main focus is to get women in our community together for this<br> | |
| cause. We feel that people working together for a common good really<br> | |
| strengthens our community. But now with the internet, I guess we can<br> | |
| think in terms of our world community! Thanks so much for your interest!"<br> | |
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| Contact:<br> | |
| Jennifer Erickson<br> | |
| 671 Rd. P.5 SW , Quincy, WA 98848<br> | |
| 509-785-5211<br> | |
| email: <a HREF="MAILTO:ericktnp@televar.com">ericktnp@televar.com</a><br> | |
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| <p><i>The Long Island Machine Knitting Guild</i><br> | |
| Accepts donations of premie hats, blankets. All items should be finished, ready to give.<br> | |
| Current and ongoing through the year.<br> | |
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| Contact:<br> | |
| Sherri Sckereizen<br> | |
| 1518 Jackson Avenue<br> | |
| East Meadow, NY 11554-4612<br> | |
| e-mail: <a HREF="mailto:sga@mindspring.com">sga@mindspring.com</a><br> | |
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| <p><i>Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois</i><br> | |
| Accepts mittens, hats, scarves, slippers, booties and baby afghans. <br> | |
| They will also gladly accept the finished articles<br> | |
| and/or donations of yarn. They have requested that knitters use acrylic<br> | |
| or washable wool yarn.<br> | |
| They are accepting donations year round.<br> | |
| <br> | |
| Contact:<br> | |
| Kathi Quinn<br> | |
| Snug Hugs<br> | |
| 626 Carriage Hill Drive<br> | |
| Glenview, IL 60025-5401<br> | |
| (847) 998-9950<br> | |
| e-mail: <a HREF="mailto:ProquestKQ@aol.com">ProquestKQ@aol.com</a><br> | |
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| <p><i>The "Loosely Knit Club"</i><br> | |
| Accepts hats, blankets, etc. for infants and/or donations of yarn. The finished items are | |
| distributed<br> | |
| to St. Jude's in Memphis and the Newborn Center at the City/County Hospital.<br> | |
| Ongoing.<br> | |
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| Contact:<br> | |
| Elise George<br> | |
| e-mail: <a HREF="mailto:egeorge@netten.net">egeorge@netten.net</a><br> | |
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| <p><i>Nana's Angels</i><br> | |
| Accepts hats and SMALL (5 inches or less) huggable toys for cancer kids ages infant | |
| through 18 years.<br> | |
| Ongoing<br> | |
| <br> | |
| Contact:<br> | |
| Tamara Adams<br> | |
| P.O. Box 137281<br> | |
| Fort Worth, TX 76136-1281<br> | |
| e-mail: <a HREF="MAILTO:tkadams@flash.net">tkadams@flash.net</a><br> | |
| <a HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4652">Nana's Angels Site </a><br> | |
| (Where you can go to see pictures of some of the hats and huggies)<br> | |
| Knit hat patterns are available that have been sent in by other people if anyone needs | |
| any.<br> | |
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| <p><i>Warm Up America</i><br> | |
| Accepts knitted or crocheted afghans, any size. Mostly, they take afghan sections. <br> | |
| These sections need to be 7 inches by 9 inches, or multiples of 7 by 9 (i.e. a strip<br> | |
| 9 inches wide by 49 inches long). Please use easy care yarns that can be machine<br> | |
| washed.<br> | |
| These sections are made into blankets 49 by 63 inches long by volunteers at headquarters<br> | |
| and are given to the Red Cross for distribution. Please send finished items only.<br> | |
| Ongoing.<br> | |
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| Contact:<br> | |
| Mary Colucci of the Craft Council of America (212) 570-9883<br> | |
| Or Write:<br> | |
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| Mary Colucci<br> | |
| Communications Director<br> | |
| c/o CM Communications<br> | |
| 333 E. 69th St, Ste. 7J<br> | |
| New York, NY 10021<br> | |
| <br> | |
| Send contributions to:<br> | |
| Warm Up America!<br> | |
| c/o CYCA<br> | |
| 2500 Lowell Road<br> | |
| Gastonia, NC 28054<br> | |
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| <p align="center">Club Ideas<br> | |
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| <p>I just wanted to share with you all about our latest club project.<br> | |
| Yesterday we met from 9 till 4. Club members either brought their own<br> | |
| machines or shared with someone else. We knitted toboggans all day.<br> | |
| <br> | |
| It was a wonderful day. Everyone brought odds and ends of yarn and we<br> | |
| just put them all together so everyone could choose whatever to knit<br> | |
| with. If one person used a pattern we all liked, we could try it in<br> | |
| different color combinations. Some people were knitting, some were<br> | |
| sewing up, and we got my daughter to make pompoms. We laughed all<br> | |
| day...told jokes...even sang a little! <br> | |
| Everyone had brought a brown bag lunch, and we had our lunch break at<br> | |
| noon. One member even brought yummy chocolate chip cookies to help keep<br> | |
| our energy level up! We talked about the recent seminars we'd been to<br> | |
| and other things we'd like to see.<br> | |
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| As the day wore on, we began putting the finished hats in a chair. By<br> | |
| 4:00 the chair was full of all sorts of colors and patterns and stripes!<br> | |
| We'd all used just a couple of basic patterns, but it was really fun to<br> | |
| see how each hat was such an individual thing.<br> | |
| <br> | |
| We plan to take our toboggans to an elementary school near us. It's in a<br> | |
| older section of town and many of the kids come from low income families.<br> | |
| We'll give our hats to the principal of the school and she can<br> | |
| distribute them to the ones that need them. So I guess we're twice<br> | |
| blessed: we had a great day together and some child will have a little<br> | |
| bit warmer winter.<br> | |
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| I know many clubs do charity work all year round, and we have a charity<br> | |
| box that our members fill up on a regular basis. But this is the first<br> | |
| time we've taken a day and knitted together. Considering the good time<br> | |
| we had, I'm sure it won't be the last!<br> | |
| <br> | |
| Cathie Sanders<br> | |
| Northtipton Creations<br> | |
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| <p>Dear Fellow Knitlisters,<br> | |
| I'm not sure if this is an appropriate posting to the list, so if it<br> | |
| isn't I apologize in advance.<br> | |
| Several months ago I started working as a Nurse Practitioner here on the<br> | |
| Crow Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where the winter winds are<br> | |
| extremely bitter and cold. While most of my patients seem to be dressed<br> | |
| warmly, I have seen children, teens and adults who come to the clinic<br> | |
| without warm clothes. When I ask them, "Do you have a warm hat or<br> | |
| mittens?" they simply say "No."<br> | |
| Like the rest of you, my knitting machine is busy churning out last minute<br> | |
| Christmas gifts for my family. But I've decided to spend January using up<br> | |
| part-cones of yarn to make some warm hats, mittens & socks. Our talented<br> | |
| and tireless public health nurses who make home visits can distribute the<br> | |
| knitwear to those who need it most. We serve an area of 1000+ people, and<br> | |
| poverty is a terrible reality here.<br> | |
| If any of you wish to donate knitwear, please email me privately for an address to send it | |
| to.<br> | |
| Thanks in advance.<br> | |
| Patty Lokken<br> | |
| <a HREF="MAILTO:lokken@eastnet.net">lokken@easnet.net</a> </p> | |
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| Some of the members of the Bond Users email list are tossing around ideas to form a | |
| knitting group similar to the MK List's Knit-A-Longs. One of the ideas was for a Baker's | |
| Dozen Club, where they would work on a project a month, plus one for charity. The basic | |
| concept comes from Melissa Ark, and Linda Boudreau has generously offered up a pattern to | |
| get it started.<a HREF="patterns/Afghan/Angelghan.htm">Melissa's Angelghan-January's Angel of | |
| Brighter Tomorrows Afghan</a> <br> | |
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| <p>Some Other Charity Links:<br> | |
| <a HREF="http://www.projectlinus.org/">Project Linus</a></p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.newbornsinneed.org/">Newborns In Need - a charity for needy | |
| newborns</a><br> | |
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