Tricoteuses Sans Frontières/Knitters without Borders

Read about it at Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s Yarn Harlot site:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NativeAmericanSupport/

“We are a group of people that want to make a difference in the lives of the Native Americans who live at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. ”

they do give addresses on where to send completed items.

Sewing for Babies, Inc. (in the state of Nebraska)  http://sewingforbabies.org/index.htm , “is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, all volunteer organization that has combined our love for babies with our of love sewing, knitting, and crocheting to provide warm blankets and clothing for premature, sick and babies in need.” (quote from their WebSite)They ”deliver to hospitals, social services, crisis pregnancy centers, abuse centers, WIC offices, various other women and children’s agencies, and of course to individual families.”Work group meetings are listed here, http://sewingforbabies.org/work.html , if you wish to help.

Knit, crochet, or sew a baby cap for Midwives kits:

http://ghm.org/resources/hands-on/midwifekit.html

Warm Woolies is a Denver, CO based non-profit organization whose volunteers knit warm woolen clothing for childern in need all over the world.

Their site, http://www.warmwoolies.org/ provides knitting patterns and where you can send your completed items.

The Canadian newspaper, The Windsor Star, ran this story on Nov. 28, 2007

Thirty Toasty Blankets donated just in time

To help go to:

http://blankets4canada.ca/index.html