Knitters wanted for bobble hat appeal to keep older people warm this winter.
Due by 22 October 2007
This EADT 24 Article explains the drive, as does the “Get your needles ready” article.
Below is the site for the bobble hats BigKnit, with patterns and more information:
The “Handmade Afghans to Thank Our Armed Forces Project” or HAP was started in December 2004 by Deborah Starobin-Armstrong. HAP is an all volunteer organization knitting or crocheting 6″ X 9″ (arcrylic, 4ply, worsted weight yarn) rectangles to eventually form an afghan using 49 rectangles (assembled at a “Put Together Event”).
The afghans are then delivered to Walter Reed Army Medical Centers or delivered to active duty service members.
Interested in helping? Check out their website for additional information and easy to follow knitting and crochet afghan patterns:
From The Orphan Foundation of America site:
http://www.orphan.org/index.php?id=40&0=
“OFA’s 2008 Red Scarf Initiative Rolls Earlier
Submission dates for the next Red Scarf Initiative have been changed to September 1 through October 15, 2007. This will enable OFA to send out the scarves by early winter (when they will do the most good).
Our goal this year is to take in around 7,000 scarves. Donors are requested to send in no more than five scarves to:
Orphan Foundation of America
Attn: Red Scarf Project
21351 Gentry Drive, Suite 130
Sterling, VA 20191
Stay tuned for further details, and be sure to check out the Now Norma Knits blog, http://nownormaknits2.typepad.com/red_scarf_project_2008/ , written by one of our most committed supporters, to get a great take on the Red Scarf Project.” (Her site is requesting Quality over Quantity.)
The site also offers a scarf pattern, in both knitting and crochet, designed by Lily Chen especially for this project.
When Knitting was a Manly Art is a 1997 Christian Science Monitor article, written by a man telling his experiences about knitting in boarding school during World War II.
He writes that no one thought anything of boys/men knitting, and that everyone at school knitted, ” including the headmaster, the teachers, and the whole football team. We knitted 9-inch squares, which somebody else sewed together to make blankets and scarves for British soldiers. “Knitting for Britain,” it was called.”
The Quilts of Valor Foundation is all about “quilting honor and comfort for our wounded.”
To find out how to help, visit their website:
History Link Essay Knitting for Victory - World War II
This is a great way to get a feel for the times with pictures and words about knitting for the troops during WWII.
This group’s mission is, “To provide custom-made adaptive clothing to our injured service members free of charge. ”
See how you can help at:
Ruth, aka 5 elementknitr, who spent 5 years in the Army, is having a contest (June 1- Sept. 15, 2007)/ drive for 200 helmet liners for the troops in Iraq.
Check out the details in her blog.
http://5elementknitr.blogspot.com/2007/05/contest.html
Packages From Home ,based in AZ, is also sending the helmetliners and neck coolers to the troops. The address to send completed items is on their site.
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