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Volunteerism - Projects

When one person can make a great difference!

In creating this section on Volunteerism, I discovered a wonderful connection to a community of volunteers within a medium that I had not realized existed--those out there knitting, crochetting, quilting and sewing--creating their beautiful works of art so that others might be helped. I have picked out many of the different Volunteer projects so that our visitors might get an idea what types of projects are going on. You may want to help or you may come up with an idea of your own.
Let us know and we will add in your ideas.

The Little Knitters by Albert Anker, 1892

In your service to others keep to the humble works because they are works nobody else will do. It is never to small for God. For there are many people who can do the big things. But there are few people who will do the small things.

Mother Teresa

Since childhood, I was always doing some sort of craft or 'project' --crochetting, sewing, knitting 'creating.' This was evident during medical school and residency when I would be sewing or knitting to relax me. This has been supported by a recent study commissioned by the American Home Sewing & Craft Association. In this study they found that women who sew either skilled or novice sewers, experience a significant drop in heart rate, blood pressure, and perspiration rate when compared to women who participate in other leisure-time activities. These results indicate that sewing helps women to relax while they focus on a creative activity. This clinical study appears to
establish what many of us have always suspected—that there are positive, stress-reducing benefits to be gained from sewing.
For me, I discovered that the act of creating something was very important during the pursuit of a long-term goal. Taking an idea and turning it into something that one could see in a relatively short period of time helped to keep my creative mind working. Lately, the need to create has been met by the website.

This section is dedicated to my maternal grandparents, Vilho and Bertha Koskelo, who's love of textiles and design was passed on through my mother to me.

The projects are grouped according to types of people or animals they support. Since many of the projects utilized a variety of craft methods, knitting, crochetting, sewing and quilting, it seemded easier to group them in the following categories:

Neo-natal & New Borns

Babies & Children

Children's Deaths

AIDS

Cancer

Adults

Homeless

Relief Missions

Animals

Other Resources

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Etienne de Grellet

Neo-natal, Premature & New Borns

Care Wear - Care Wear is a nationwide group of volunteers who knit, crochet, and/or sew, providing handmade baby items to hospitals. All Care Wear items are given FREE to infants, children and their parents. The organization started

as a personal effort to provide much needed apparel for premature and low birthweight infants undergoing treatment in neonatal intensive care units of several children’s hospitals in the Washington, D.C. area. Because of the high demand for preemie-sized items, efforts began to recruit others to join the effort. By February 1998, Care Wear had grown to more than 1500 active volunteers. The focus of Care Wear’s efforts has been premature infants, they have expanded to provide some assistance for larger infants, children, and even geriatric patients. Their greatest demand is for larger preemie and full-term sizes of hats and booties. Most hospitals welcome small (30" x30") blankets and quilts. Volunteers provide all of the supplies and may use left over yarn and fabric. Due to the popularity of Care Wear, now volunteers are urged to deliver completed items directly to hospitals in their community.

http://www.hood.edu/carewear

Newborns in Need

Newborns in Need is an all volunteer organization that makes and donates baby gowns, blankets and other essential baby items to hospitals, homeless shelters and other organizations that provide for premature and new born infants. They have 25 chapters around the U.S. to provide much needed clothing sewn by the volunteers. They also provide quilts, toys, hats, booties and when needed burial gowns. Each chapter contacts the local hospitals to find out what they need and provide assistance as able. The project accepts a variety of donations from notions, fabric, yarn, and patterns to nimble fingers to help with the sewing knitting, tatting, and crochetting to make baby clothing and bedding. They encourage people to get involved in whatever way they can recognizing that "YOU might be the one who makes the difference in the life of a tiny child."

http://newbornsinneed.org

http://newbornsinneed.com

Caps For Kids - Caps For Kids is a non-profit organization that collects handmade caps for children from newborn (including preemies) to age 18. Hundreds of yarn shops in the United States are registered with Caps for Kids and collect the caps throughout the year. The program is carried out through yarn shops across the country who have registered with CFK. Participating shops collect the caps which are distributed in the community of the registered stores.

The caps are donated to underprivileged children in December through the efforts of community- based, non-profit, non-denominational agencies. Nearly one million caps, along with other children's accessories, have been knitted and crocheted by volunteers since the program began.

http://craftyarncouncil.com/caps.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3272/capsforkids.html

Caring & Sharing - Caring & Sharing is part of the Home Sewing Association's website. It is a place to share causes and ideas to help others. By combining the skills of sewing and a sense of community we will be able to spread joy and hope and remember that we are all connected. Their site provides instructions for a variety of projects including: Comfort Caps™ Cancer Hat Project, Chemotherapy Turbans, Suzy's Bags, Hug Me Teddybear, Preemie "Angel" Gowns, Kidsacks, Hospital Bed Saddlebag, Walker Caddy and Lap Robes.

http://www.sewing.org/careshare/index.html

Helping Handz - Helping Handz, an international crochet discussion list with the difference being their primary focus is crochetting and knitting for charity. The group is working on a variety of different projects for a variety of different causes from preemie blankets to bears for Alzheimer's patients and fund raisers for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Women's shelters. To participate in the Helping Handz project the first step is to subscribe to their discussion list, this allows for better coordination of the projects. http://members.xoom.com/BizzyHandz/Helping_Handz.htm

Granny's Daughter for Charity

Granny's Daughter for Charity is a special project charity group of Crochet Partners. This is a way that members of Crochet Partners can contribute to many different charities with little effort. Two members collect and assemble the granny's daughter motifs over a three month period. A granny's daughter is a little crochet square that only takes about 2 yards of yarn to complete. Once collected these little motifs donated from other members of CP and assemble them into afghans and other items for a variety of different charities.

http://ttsw.com/CPGDC

Babies & Children

Binky Patrol - Binky Patrol is devoted to reaching out to needy children, including HIV-positive, drug-addicated, neglected, abused, or children experiencing trauma in any way. Binky Patrol volunteers bring a caring loving touch by creating and delivering handmade blankets, "binkies", to enrich the children's lives and to meet their most basic needs of warmth, security and comfort. "Binkies" are distributed through hospitals, shelters, and social service agencies. The binkies are to be given as gifts and are not recycled in the agencies. Binky Patrol is looking for local volunteers and resources all the way from fabric, to yarn, to postage, etc.

http://www.binkypatrol.org/

ABC Quilts Project - ABC Quilts Project is a national volunteer organization that provides handmade quilts for at-risk babies across America. Thetarget population includes children under the age of 6 who are infected with HIV/AIDS, affected by drugs or alcohol, or abandoned (boarder babies)

In 1988 Ellen Ahlgren of Northwood, New Hampshire read an article by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross describing the tragedy of HIV/AIDS infected babies and was so affected by it, that she decided to do something to bring comfort to these babies. ABC Quilts, a grassroots, all-volunteer project was born. To date, the project has delivered more than 250,000 quilts to facilities in approximately 40 states, Puerto Rico, Chile, the former USSR, and Romania. These facilities include hospitals, foster homes, day care centers and the homes of children who are out patients.

http://www.jbu.edu/ABCQuilts/

Granny's Daughter for Charity

http://ttsw.com/CPGDC

Project Linus - Project Linus began after Karen Loucks-Baker saw an article appears in Parade Magazine entitled 'Joy to the World' by Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist, Eddie Adams in 1995. Part of the article featured a petite, downy haired child who had been going through intensive chemotherapy and credited her security blanket with helping her get through the treatments.

To date, Project Linus has delivered over 76,000 security blankets to children around the world and has over 270 chapters in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Originally targeting pediatric cancer patients, Project Linus expanded its focus aiming toward seriously ill or traumatized children.

http://www.projectlinus.org/

Project Warm Fuzzies - Project Warm Fuzzies was designed to provide comfort in the form of quilts to children who are patients at facilities that provide absolutely free treatment and services to them and their families. This project provides quilts to St. Jude's Children's Research Center in Memphis, TN, Deborah Hospital Foundation in Browns Mills, NJ, and to the Shriner's Hospitals for Crippled Children (all 23 of them) through their facilities in Lexington, KY, Tampa, FL, and our network of Reps around the country. These facilities were selected because they are the only facilities in the United States that provide services absolutely free of charge to their patients.

The project accepts a variety of donations - from completed quilts to the needles, thread, batting, or fabric to make them and even "laborers of love" to assist in assembling them. Donations of fabric and other supplies are distributed to the quilters to produce the quilts.

http://users.accessus.net/~davenkim/pwf/intro.html

http://craftyarncouncil.com/caps.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3272/capsforkids.html

Cool Hats For Kids Cool Hats For Kids is part of the Kids Care Clubs^TM which was developed by

Jen Spaide, a senior at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, to help kids with cancer worry less about hair loss and more about getting well. Their goal is to collect cool hats for kids in chemo in every size and every style, from fireman and cowboy hats, to funny ski hats and cool teen hats. The hats are then donated to hospitals that provide treatment for kids with cancer. Each time a child comes in for treatment, he or she can choose a new hat to take home." Kids can collect fun hats and donate them to local hospitals.

Cool Hats for Kids organizers recommend calling your local hospital and asking for the Child Life Specialist or Pediatric Social Worker. Most hospitals would love help from kids in the community. If your local hospital is not interested, you can send your hats to Kids Care Clubs™ for distribution in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts.

Because of infection and allergen concerns, the hats must be new, but can be of any type. Cool Hats for Kids encourages crafters to use their skills buying painters hats and create with fabric paints

http://kidscare.org/coolhats.htm

as a personal effort to provide much needed apparel for premature and low birthweight infants undergoing treatment in neonatal intensive care units of several children’s hospitals in the Washington, D.C. area. Because of the high demand for preemie-sized items, efforts began to recruit others to join the effort. By February 1998, Care Wear had grown to more than 1500 active volunteers. The focus of Care Wear’s efforts has been premature infants, they have expanded to provide some assistance for larger infants, children, and even geriatric patients. Their greatest demand is for larger preemie and full-term sizes of hats and booties. Most hospitals welcome small (30" x30") blankets and quilts. Volunteers provide all of the supplies and may use left over yarn and fabric. Due to the popularity of Care Wear, volunteers are urged to deliver completed items directly to hospitals in their community.

http://www.hood.edu/carewear

IQ (InterQuilt) Hugs Bears for Charity

IQ (InterQuilt) Hugs Bears for Charity is one of the International Quilt Guild charity projects. Their site provides patterns and special directions for making hug bears which can be donated to children in crisis.

http://kbs.net/tt/hugs.html

Precious Pals - The Precious Pals program was begun by The Knitting Guild of America (TKGA) as a means of providing immediate comfort to children in crisis. TKGA members, others who wish to help and conference attendees have created and provided thousands of stuffed animals with knitted outfits to Police departments all over the United States. These Precious Pals may also help the investigatin officers to find out more information, since the children often will tell the animal what happened and then have the animal tell the officer.

http://www.tkga.com/precious.htm

Knitting Sweaters to Help Children - Knitting Sweaters to Help Children project was the idea of Brigitte Weeks, Editor-in-Chief, of Guideposts Books who started knitting children's sweaters after her aunt shared a simple pattern for a child's sweater, designed by a large British charity, the Oxford Committee in Famine Relief. The Guidepost Sweater Project has shipped over 32,000 sweaters both overseas, and to a variety of US agencies that care for needy children in the United State and many other countries. A crochet pattern is also available because the discovered the United States has more crocheters than knitters. Brigitte Weeks can be reached about the project c/o Guideposts Sweater Project 16 East 34 Street New York, NY 10016. Knitting Sweaters to Help Children directions can be found at http://www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/sweater.htm

Teddies for Tragedies - Teddies for Tragedies was started in Canada after discovering the Teddies for Tragedies which has been operated by "Doctors Without Borders" based in England since 1985. Doctors treating children in Third World Countries have found that children who have their own Teddies to cuddle in their cots, get better quicker than those who don't have one. Since each child keeps his own teddy to take home, the doctors need a continual supply. The group describes their mission as a labor of love with an enormous benefit to the children in need. To date, all supplies have been donated and we are hoping to find sponsors to ship them. The teddies are 12" high and are hand-knitted by volunteers. The current goal is a batch of teddies which will probably go to an orphanage in Romania in May, 1999. The next batch is earmarked for the refugee children arriving from Kosovo to Canada.

http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/lassie/322/index.htm

Children's Death

Afghans for Angels - Afghans for Angels is a volunteer organization who make and distribute baby blankets to local hospitals to give to parents who have suffered the loss of their infant through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death. These blankets are used only in cases of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death, to wrap around the baby for the brief time they will be held and loved by their family. The organization was created by Ruth Ann Thill after a close relative experienced the stillbirth loss of a child. Afghans for Angels are created specially for these difficult occasions to be placed lovingly around these infants when they are held by their families for the brief time in which bittersweet hellos and sad good-byes are said. The parents are then allowed to keep these afghans as a token of remembrance of their baby. Just having something soft to hold is often comforting. Through our sources, we have learned that these grieving parents are quite touched by the fact that people they have never met cared enough to make something so beautiful and special for them and their child. It is their belief that ANYTHING that can be done to help these families, should be done.

The group currently consists of two small chapters in north central Iowa. If you live in a different area and you would like to start a group of willing volunteers in your local area, contact Afghans for Angels. It is their hope that someday EVERY hospital will have blankets and the information to give these parents and families the needed emotional support that they need at this time.

http://www.angelfire.com/ia/afghansforangels/index.html

Newborns in Need

Newborns in Need provides beautiful, tiny burial layettes for the babies who die and only need one last outfit and blanket. A hand picked team of volunteers from across the Nation respond quickly to requests for burial layettes. These caring volunteers use their sewing skills in creating beautiful tiny gowns and accessories to ease the trauma and anguish of the family. Some of the volunteers sew, some crochet, some knit, some even tat precious creations for God's tiniest children's last needs. Finished items are quickly shipped to the requesting organization, usually the Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the children's hospitals we serve. Burial layettes sets consist of a bonnet, gown, and receiving blanket.

http://newbornsinneed.com/death.html

http://www.newbornsinneed.org/infdeath.html

AIDS

AIDS Memorial Quilt - the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest on-going community arts project in the world. Starting in 1987 as a way of creating a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is based upon the old American tradition of quilting, when neighbors and relatives would gather in groups to sew old scraps of fabric together to make blankets. Working together made people feel like a community, giving them the chance to tell stories, trade gossip, sing songs, and enjoy each other's company as they sewed. Today, as people gather together to make panels for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, this tradition gives comfort in a time of grief.

Each of the

over 41,000 colorful panels in the Quilt was made to remember the life of a person lost to AIDS. Panels are 3 feet by 6 feet -- the size of a human grave. As the epidemic claims more lives, the Quilt

continues to grow. The Quilt stands for more than the tens of thousands of people whose names are

sewn into the fabric. It stands, as well, for the sorrow, anger, love and hope of people who make panels.

A panelmaker is someone who has made a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Anyone can be a

panelmaker: panels are made by family members, friends, lovers, co-workers and others; working in

groups or individually.

http://www.aidsquilt.org/quilt

The NAMES Project - Canada The Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt is the collection of more than 500 individually hand-made panels, each a testament to the life of someone who has died of AIDS.

Canada is now one of more than 35 countries with an AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt can be viewed on-line by the Internet community. Friends, lovers, family members, and co-workers are encouraged to create a panel for the Memorial Quilt to celebrate and preserve the memories of those who have died of HIV and AIDS related illnesses.

http://www.quilt.ca

Cancer

Cool Hats For Kids Cool Hats For Kids is part of the Kids Care Clubs^TM which was developed by

Because of infection and allergen concerns, the hats must be new, but can be of any type. Cool Hats for Kids encourages crafters to use their skills buying painters hats and create with fabric paints

http://kidscare.org/coolhats.htm

Caring & Sharing - Caring & Sharing is part of the Home Sewing Association's website. It is a place to share causes and ideas to help others. By combining the skills of sewing and a sense of community we will be able to spread joy and hope and remember that we are all connected. Their site provides instructions for a variety of projects including: Comfort Caps™ Cancer Hat Project, Chemotherapy Turbans, Suzy's Bags, Hug Me Teddybear, Preemie "Angel" Gowns, Kidsacks, Hospital Bed Saddlebag, Walker Caddy and Lap Robes.

http://www.sewing.org/careshare/index.html

http://www.projectlinus.org/

Adults

Caring & Sharing - Caring & Sharing is part of the Home Sewing Association's website. It is a place to share causes and ideas to help others. By combining the skills of sewing and a sense of community we will be able to spread joy and hope and remember that we are all connected. Their site provides instructions for a variety of projects including: Comfort Caps™ Cancer Hat Project, Chemotherapy Turbans, Suzy's Bags, Hug Me Teddybear, Preemie "Angel" Gowns, Kidsacks, Hospital Bed Saddlebag, Walker Caddy and Lap Robes.

http://www.sewing.org/careshare/index.html

Blankets for Canada Society - Blankets for Canada Society is a non-denominational, non-profit organization devoted to creating blankets for those Canadians who need the warmth they provide.

The blankets come from donations, knitted by hand or by knitting machine and crocheted. The project has had men, women, boys and girls have all taken part in this project. Many of our seniors are busy knitting and crocheting as you read this. A 5th & 6th grade class learned to knit and made a blanket. Labels saying "Compliments of Blankets For Canada NOT FOR SALE" are sewn onto each blanket that are given to organizations to pass on to those without shelter.

http://www.blankets4canada.ca/

Granny's Daughter for Charity

http://ttsw.com/CPGDC

Knitting for the Troops FAQ's - Knitting for the Troops was started in 1995 by SUNY Computer Science Faculty member Esther S. Bozak as a way of providing the members of the KnitList with information for knitting for the troops away from home. This FAQ strives to answer the questions of what to make, what materials to use, and where to send the finished products, along with a listing of suggested patterns. It contains information gathered by and sent to the KnitList by fellow members who are actually serving in the military and are involved in the Bosnian mission, who have family, friends, or colleagues involved in the mission, or who have been in contact with the commanders and personnel at military bases in their local areas.

http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~ebozak/knit/troops-faq.html

http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~ebozak/knit/

Homeless

Hats for the Homeless

Hats for the Homeless was started by Sharen Stennet in Illinois in answer to her own question "What can I possibly do to make a difference with the homeless?" One day she saw a homeless child who was obviously cold and realized that she couldn't do much for the whole world BUT I could make a warm hat, mittens, and scarf for one child! Thus came the idea for Hats for the Homeless. A pattern is included on the site. Once done, the hats can be taken to the

Salvation Army or United Way for shelters in your area.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct/barnart/

Ugly Quilts from My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper Quilt Group was formed in 1985 to create ugly quilt--a sleeping bag that's been made from scraps, old clothes, bedspreads, and any discarded material you can spare which can then be donated to make a difference in a homeless person's life.

The web page with information was created to provide patterns and encourage others to help the homeless. Any questions about Ugly Quilts or My Brothers' Keeper, contact them directly at 717-289-4335.

MY BROTHERS' KEEPER QUILT GROUP

c/o Wheatley

Strawberry Hill Farm

RR 1 Box 1049

Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania 18824 USA

http://www.reese.org/sharon/uglyqult.htm

http://www.binkypatrol.org

Caring & Sharing - Caring & Sharing is part of the Home Sewing Association's website. It is a place to share causes and ideas to help others. By combining the skills of sewing and a sense of community we will be able to spread joy and hope and remember that we are all connected. Their site provides instructions for a variety of projects including: Comfort Caps™ Cancer Hat Project, Chemotherapy Turbans, Suzy's Bags, Hug Me Teddybear, Preemie "Angel" Gowns, Kidsacks, Hospital Bed Saddlebag, Walker Caddy and Lap Robes.

http://www.sewing.org/careshare/index.html

Blankets for Canada Society - Blankets for Canada Society is a non-denominational, non-profit organization devoted to creating blankets for those Canadians who need the warmth they provide.

http://www.blankets4canada.ca/

Warm Up America Warm Up America is sponsored by the Craft Yarn Council of America. Their goal is to provide warm crocheted or knitted afghans to anyone in need. Afghans are collected by CYCA and distributed to Red Cross chapters for use during natural disasters, for the homeless and for those who lose their homes and belongings in fires. Warm Up America can allow people to make a difference by completing a single section or an entire afghan. Warm Up America! also is a great project for children to get involved in. Not only do they learn a skill that can provide a lifetime of enjoyment, but they will be helping others.

http://craftyarncouncil.com/warmup.html

Directions for crochet squares from the Crochet Partners

http://www3.edgenet.net/~wade/jbarr/warmup.htm

Relief Missions

Quilts over Kosovo - Quilts over Kosovo is an idea from quilter Jill Kuraitis who suggested that quilters organize to provide practical, comfort for refugees of the war in Kosovo. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced that the two most important shortages at refugee camps are blankets and shelter. Quilts are better than blankets and the larger ones can actually be hung over a rope and used as temporary shelter until other facilities are available. Quilts are one of the most effective ways to help war refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The refugee situation is beyond desperate - relief workers are begging for help. In a recent press release April 12, 1999 -- Thousands of quilters in a dozen nations are working hard to produce an estimated 8-10,000 quilts for use by refugees of the war in Kosovo.

http://www.globaldevelopment.org/quilts.htm

http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/lassie/322/index.htm

Sunshine Quilt Project - Sunshine Quilt Project is sponsored by the SunShine Guild an International on-line quilting guild. The focus of the Sunshine Quilt Project is making quilts for war torn countries. The primary purpose of the Sunshine Quilt Project is to provide sturdy, useful quilts to those in need. The quilts need to be made according to outlined guidelines. The finished quilts are donated to well-established, international organizations (e.g. Red Cross) for distribution as they deem appropriate. In this way, all donors share the warmth and caring, both physical and emotional, to those in need across the world.

http://adam.cheshire.net/~billijean/sunshine.htm

Blankets for Canada Society - Blankets for Canada Society is a non-denominational, non-profit organization devoted to creating blankets for those Canadians who need the warmth they provide. The blankets come from donations, knitted by hand or by knitting machine and crocheted. The project has had men, women, boys and girls have all taken part in this project. Many of our seniors are busy knitting and crocheting as you read this. A 5th & 6th grade class learned to knit and made a blanket. Labels saying "Compliments of Blankets For Canada NOT FOR SALE" are sewn onto each blanket that are given to organizations to pass on to those without shelter. http://www.blankets4canada.ca/

Animals

Snuggles Project - Snuggles Project is from Hugs for Homeless Animals. "Snuggles" are security blankets which can be knit or crochet for use by animal shelters for the homeless, abandoned animals.

The goal of the Snuggles project is to provide each animal with a Snuggle to cuddle up with to feel warmth and comfort. The Snuggles would allow them to have a little reprieve from the cold pens. Since the actual "Snuggles" don't have to be exact, this is a perfect project for children and people just learning how to knit or crochet. They could be made out of acrylic yarn or cotton in any pattern or color. The suggested sizes for the blankets are:

12" x 12" for cats and small animals

24" x 24" for medium dogs and other animals

36" x 36" for large dogs and other animals. The project also accepts donations of yarn (scraps or end lots are okay -- every little bit helps) blankets and towels (please clean before sending) and fabric (for making quilted snuggles).

http://www.h4ha.org/snuggles/

http://www.h4ha.org/

Other On-line Resources
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