The Red Scarf Project 2008 will be accepting scarves between September 1st and October 15th. Get knitting!
More information on the Red Scarf Project can be found on the project blog and on the Orphan Foundation website.
If you don’t think you’ll make it, perhaps you would prefer to donate $$ through PayPal instead? Go to Norma’s website and check the sidebar on the left for a PayPal donation button.
Stitch For Senate turns the charitable knitting of helmet liners for Marines on its head. (Get it? Head!)
The artist’s goal is to send a hand-knit helmet liner to every member of the Senate in time for the 2008 Senate elections. (The recipients can then opt to send the helmet liner on to a real life soldier engaged on the front lines in Iraq.)
The deadline for submission is August 16th, 2008. Instructions on knitting and sending in your submission can be found at the Stitch For Senate website and at the Stitch For Senate blog.
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20 British MPs staged a knit-in at the Houses of Parliament to knit for Save the Children.
According to the press release,
“The cross-party knitting session gave MPs the opportunity to set an example to world leaders by doing something tangible to save children’s lives.”
Save the Children collects knit and crocheted baby hats and sends them out to newborn babies in developing countries across the world.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is hosting the “Knitting For Marines” drive, which is collecting hand-knit helmet liners.
The helmet liners must be knit or crocheted in 100% wool yarn. (No acrylic!) The yarn must be either tan, brown, black, or charcoal. (The recipients prefer tan, so that’s probably your best choice.)
Links to suggested knitting patterns, more information about the project, and the mailing address can be found on the USMC Museum website.
Afghans For Afghans has just announced a new contest!
If you send in your rectangular shawl by July 18th, you’ll be entered into their drawing. Three lucky crafters will win a $50 Yarn Market gift certificate.
Note: when you mail your shawl, be sure to include your contact information (name, email address, mailing address).
Afghans for Afghans has announced their next charity knitting project: wool blankets and garments for youth (7-14 years). The project is timed such that the items will reach the recipients in time for next winter.
The deadline for this project is September/October.
Reminder: the deadline for their current project (rectangular shawls for women) is late July.
On the fence about participating in the Red Scarf Project this year? Read Norma‘s post about meeting some of the recipients and see what you think.
*Snif* What? No, no, I just got some blog in my eye. It’s nothing.
FYI to all charity knitting organizations and organizers – we LOVE it when you publish follow-up posts!
The deadline for the latest Afghans for Afghans project is about a month away. Their most recent update says that they will be accepting items through “probably late July.”
This time around, Afghans for Afghans is collecting rectangular shawls (stoles). They ask that the shawl be approximately 20-24 inches wide, and 66-80 inches long.
More details on the latest project can be found on the Rectangle Shawl Campaign page.