Fall and Winter Projects
It’s Blanket Time – a Knit In
Let’s warm up Long Island. Come join us on Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 10 AM to 3 PM at the Harborfields Library, 31 Broadway , Greenlawn, NY. Get together with fellow crocheters and knitters as we make blanket squares. This year you can find square patterns on the Care to Knit website under the
Knitting and Crocheting Instructions. You can find this link under the Volunteer Tab.
See the Knitting Instructions!
Care to Knit has received calls for twin size blankets. If you are inspired, you can knit or crochet a blanket yourself, or join in by needling squares. Some chapters are putting together their own designs. And some knitting shops are offering blanket patterns and even putting together their own donations. How exciting is this!
Let’s warm up those in need. Donations will be distributed through the following agencies:
Long Island State Veterans' Home
International Rescue Committee
Huntington Hospital Nursery
Schneider Children's Hospital NICU
Jamaica Hospital
Hospice House (Northport)
Notes:
- If you are making a baby blanket, please do not use a lacey (holey) design as this can be dangerous for our little ones.
- Laprobes should be close to 35 X 44 inches.
- Twin size blankets should be around 45 X 90 inches (tuck in at the bottom and drape on the size)
5TH ANNIVERSARY SPRING EVENT
Friday, April 9, 2010. Join us for our 5th Anniversary Spring Event benefiting CARE TO KNIT.
Download the RSVP Form.
OPERATION HELMETLINER
We have partnered with Meadow Drive School, Albertson, NY in an effort to make helmetliners for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The guidelines for these helmet liners are very specific. Please visit the Operation Helmetliner website
www.geocities.com/helmetliner for directions. All helmetliners should be sent to CARE TO KNIT. This is an ongoing campaign. Helmetliners are always accepted. Please help support our troops!
THINK PINK
As always we support those who have been effected by breast cancer. Collections of pink scarves and pink chemo hats (please make them of very soft yarn) are most welcome. Go to the hat pattern link on this website for ideas of patterns.
TWIN SIZE BLANKETS
CARE TO KNIT has been contacted by the International Rescue Committee.
(www.theirc.org) They are in need of warm items and, in particular, twin size
blankets. The Women's Refugee Commission is an arm of the IRC and our
donations would go directly to it to help and support refugees arriving in
the USA and settling in NYC.
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