MONKEY BUSINESS
Breaking News: The fifth graders in the Floyd B. Watson School, Rockville Centre, NY received the CARE TO KNIT 2010 Volunteer School Of The Year Award for outstanding community service on June 23, 2010. These students made 45 sock monkeys for children going through cancer treatments. Last year, hats from the Fall Knit-In were paired with sock monkeys to make a wonderful, cheery gift for a young cancer patient.

We need volunteers to adopt a sock monkey and knit or crochet a hat of similar colors to complete these gifts to comfort those in need. Go to the Needlers website - click here This is where you can view the sock monkeys up for adoption and receive your adoption papers. Follow the steps carefully.

Mark your calendar with the “court date,” a date when the hats are due, Saturday, October 2, 12-2, at the Barnes & Noble on Rt. 110 in Huntington. This is the date where we will take care of Monkey Business!

You may send in your hat to Care to Knit (1940 Deer Park Ave. Suite 155, Deer Park, NY 11729) or come to our celebration where you will learn from the teachers involved how to make sock monkeys, peruse books available for purchase about sock monkeys, and receive your official adoption papers.

So, let’s get down to Monkey Business!

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.