Yarn Giveaway September 2014
This months prize is Six Skeins of Yarn! Our biggest yarn give-away this year. I want to make it memorable and I want to do that in more ways than one. By educating my readers and at the same time encouraging the winner to use the yarn for a great cause, Cancer Awareness.
The prize will include 6 skeins of yarn in various Cancer Awareness ribbon colors. It will be a mixed lot with different brands of soft yarn.
I hope you take part and have fun. Tell us your favorite charity and their website address for more raffle entries. Remember to read the terms and conditions.
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Please Share this Link. This one is More Than Just a Give-away.
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VERY IMPORTANT: The winner Does Not have to use the yarn for Cancer or Any other charity.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to enter The Yarn Giveaway September 2014.
The Yarn: Softys are Best
If you decide to use your yarn for a cancer patient it Should be Soft – with no wool. Because many cancer patients loose their hair the hat should be longer than usual to cover more.
KnotsofLove.org recommendations Caron Simply Soft and Bernat Pipsqueak soft yarn.
Image Credit: Street Art Utopia
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The Colors of Yarn:
30 Cancer Awareness Ribbon Meaning In Alphabetical Order from Left to Right
All Cancers
Lavender
Appendix Cancer
Amber
Bladder Cancer
(3) Gold/ Blue/ Purple
Brain Cancer
Grey
Breast Cancer
Pink
Carcinoid Cancer
(2) Black / White
Cervical Cancer
(2) Teal / White
Childhood Cancer
Gold
Colon Cancer
Dark Blue
Esophageal Cancer
Periwinkle
Gallbladder
Kelly Green
Head / Neck
(2) Burgundy / Ivory
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Violet
Kidney Cancer
Orange
Leiomyosarcome
Purple
Leukemia
Orange
Liver Cancer
Emerald Green
Lung Cancer
White
Lymphoma
Lime
Melanoma
Black
Multiple Myeloma
Burgundy
Ovarian Cancer
Teal
Pancreatic
Purple
Prostate Cancer
Light Blue
Sarcoma / Bone
Yellow
Stomach Cancer
Periwinkle
Testicular
Orchid
Thyroid Cancer
(3)Teal / Pink / Blue
Uterine Cancer
Peach
Honors Caregivers
Plum
Now that you know the colors and the yarn the next most important element is the hat pattern. What better price than FREE. Scroll down for Links to Free Knit, Crochet and of course Loom.
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What are those +10 and +5 Buttons
One of our readers asked the question and below is my explanation:
Say you bought a raffle ticket and I told you that if you get your friend to buy a raffle ticket I would give you 10 extra, that would encourage you to bring a friend. Well… I want to encourage folks to engage and tell me about their favorite charities so that I know where to send my knitting projects (I live in Florida so I don’t need them) , I get to educate my readers and we all have a good time. That’s worth a lot more than 10 extra raffle tickets to me – but I have to keep things reasonable for those that don’t like to chat.
Hope that explains things better,
denise
Note: Winner Does NOT have to use the Yarn for Charity
FREE Hat Patterns
The Looomahat.com Chemo Cap : Click Here
For a List of Over 65 Loom Hat Patterns Click the Picture on the Left
Another great place to get free hat patterns for ALL knitters is HeadHuggers.org.
Knots of Love Has an Awesome List of Hat Patterns for Cancer Patients – Including a few Male Hats which tend to be rare.
For Little Cancer Patients here is some info and FREE Patterns: Knitting Rays of Hope
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we make and donate hats for the homeless, Cancer, and preemies
Awesome, I guess this is the local chapter for Head Huggers in CT. I hope I got the right link: Click Here
I make scarves, hats, mittens and dish cloths for a local women’s shelter. Anything is good to help these women and their children continue to take steps to a better and brighter future.
Brenna, The Pink Slipper is a great group that does just that. Check them out. Click Here
I don’t know of any locally but I will find a charity that takes knitted items.
TacomaWashington Rescue Mission can use all sizes of hats and scarves.
Thanks for the chance to win 😀
If you’re looking for somewhere to donate yarn, a great place is the Minnesota knitters guild. They work with places like Sarah’s Oasis which helps women who are suffering from abusive relationships, teen moms, or any woman who needs a place of refuge and has nowhere else to turn. It’s an amazing program.
thank you
Just found your website…wonderful! So many giving people….so many fantastic organizations…takes my breath away.
Knots Of Love.org……..I love crocheting NICU preemie hats and blankets and beenies/hats for our male and female Cancer patients and our male and female Veterans.
Curious about blankets for animal shelters??? Yarn used??? If it was mentioned in previous posts, I missed it.
Thanks much!
Annie
Annie, I’ve had the same question for years – I put it up on the Facebook page. I don’t know why I didn’t think about doing that before. Hoping to get some answers. Stay tuned …
denise
https://www.facebook.com/curingkidscancer
http://www.curingkidscancer.org/
This charity was begun by a friend after losing a child to leukemia. If I win, you can bet I’ll be making hats for these precious kids!
There is a charity called Bella Vita Pregnancy Resource Center that helps women who are pregnant and who don’t have much. They are located in Knox, IN. They too accept knitted donations like hats, mittens, anything!
Thank you for doing this for breast cancer awareness ! I had breast cancer and it has spread to my bones and going thru chemo now again! So it is very important to catch it early!
Hope for Hats
One could always donate the knit items to the church and they will give them to people in need. There are soooo many people who need something warm now that winter is coming…
Thanks for letting us in on the give a way.
This is grate way to promote cancer awareness! And its awesome that people make and donate hats to those in need.
Oops meant “great”!
I make chemo hats, PICC line covers and baby blankets for NICU babies for Knots of Love. Free yarn would definitely help this cause. I even have my stitching group making items and would love to be able to give them some yarn to use for these projects. Knotsoflove.org
I have linked to my local children’s hospital. They accept preemie hats. when I was on bedrest during my pregancy of my first child, I relearned how to knit and i make a ton of hats to donate. I still like doing preemie hats as they are quick and easy and they bring warmth and comfort to the little ones in the NICU.
http://www.janewayfoundation.nf.ca/
Thank you for hosting this. I have a friend nearby that her church donates hand made hats to the homeless. I have a chance to make gifts for friends and family, and to help others, when I use your site because it is so helpful with patterns for hats and scarfs, etc.. Thank you!
Angelica,
You were the Winner of the June Yarn Giveaway and I hadn’t heard back from you.. SO GLAD YOU left a COMMENT. PLEASE email me. …denise@loomahat.com
I have a few charities I give to. Closest to my heart is lupus as I have a good friend who has this disease. I also give to cancer charities and donate finished afghans to hospitals for their NICU.
Texas Transplant Institute in San Antonio for me.
Hats for Hope accepts donated hats! 🙂
Project Linus provides “love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” “
NuDay Syria is a wonderful organization collecting 8×8 squares to send to families in Syria and Syrian refugee camps.
I went to the website but I didn’t find the instructions on how to send the squares – do you have another link. Here is the one I have. Click HERE
I taught my Girl Scout troop to crochet. The oldest girls crocheted granny squares that are being turned into lap blankets for a local nursing home. Our local teen librarian has a weekly group that makes or excepts 8in granny squares, hats, mitten, scarfs and such. They find a local charity, make what they can use and then find another group to donate too. Usually they rotate through a couple groups but help who ever needs help now. http://www.piercecountylibrary.org (I can’t find the exact link but the coordinator is Jamie at the South hill location). The older girls in my troop are receiving their bronze award Thursday, earned in part by the crocheting.
This is AWESOME Noreen ! You should consider loom knitting. Very easy to teach kids. Here is a video of my friend Jackie a ten-year old. We made this for her to use with her classmates who wanted to learn how to loom knit. Click HERE
Thumbs up to you and your troop… Love it!
This yarn would be put to wonderful use!!
I prefer to donate to AIDS orphans in South Africa :
http://www.knit-a-square.com/aidsorphans.html
It’s a great site and they have free patterns available too! 😀
I would donate to the organization that creates hats for preemies as a mom of a preemie I know how special they are to receive.
Actually my husband is in canada and I’ll move within short time so need your help,
Please do the needful
I am from india,
I am still learner but i want to gift crochet cap to cancer patient,kindly suggest me ,
Thanks in advance
Hi Ashruti, Here is a list of links where you can find patterns to crochet cancer caps: Click Here
Hope this helps,
denise
So glad I found this site… very encouraging to be able to help those who need help. Have had a sister-in-law, a niece and my mother who all had breast cancer… and they all survived!
I’m new to loon knitting … I want to make caps to take to the local cancer resource center.
Sorry …. LOOM knitting.
Here is a link to my church’s homepage. http://www.sandspringsbc.com/index.php If anyone would like to donate items for the Ukraine or to the Operation Christmas Child the mailing address is on the website Just put a note as to what it is for either Ukraine VBS Mission or Operation Christmas Child If you just want to donate yarn to be used to make items that would be great Just put my name on the note.Also right now we are needing small tubes of toothpaste, ponytail holders, chap-stick, crayons, colored pencils, small games and pocket size calculators for the shoe-boxes. If anyone would like to send items like that they would be greatly appreciated.
I am going to start teaching the GA’s at my church how to loom knit hats I have 18 round looms. I am going to let them borrow the looms as long as they are using them to loom hats I am hoping they enjoy it so much that they want to get their own set and learn how to make scarves as well I might even do a class with them once a month. But that is up to their teacher I am so excited. Our church has a team that goes to the Ukraine every year and they take items for the people in the village where they have VBS They also take supplies to an orphanage there We also do 500 shoe-boxes for The Christmas Child Project every year. I hope by the girls learning to loom knit they will make hats for the shoe-boxes or the Ukraine maybe even both……
Busy Fingers : Our group crochets and knits lap robes for veterans hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living homes and children’s clinics. We welcome donations of yarn, especially for creating lap robes for veterans. Our VA Hospital’s need is great. When discharged from the hospital, the veterans like to take home the lap robes.
Hi, thanks for sharing your great idea. I looked for a link to Busy Fingers. Is there a website that I can refer our readers. I REALLY like this idea a lot.
Again thank you,
denise 🙂
A great charity that accepts knitted (and crocheted) hats is called “Chemo Caps.” They have free patterns on their websites that you can use or you can use your own, and they give the caps to cancer patients who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy. Another place you can donate knitted stuff is your local hospitals premie ward. They usually accept most baby crochet and knit items but sometimes have rules as to what can be on the projects (i.e. my hospital says there can’t be ribbons on the stuff you make) so if you want to make stuff for them, just call the hospital and ask if they have any requirements for the stuff you make.
Chris thanks so much for taking the time to leave your comments much appreciated.. I searched for a link, I hope this is the right one: Chemo Caps
denise 🙂
Hi! In my knitting circle we knit and crochet hats for the local NICU (Cleveland Memorial Hospital, Shelby, NC) and Hats and scarves for both the Men’s and Women’s Shelters here in Shelby. I have never used a knitting loom before, but I do have a set and am definitely going to give it a try soon!
Hey Natasha, It’s always great to add one more to the loom knitting family. You’re going to love it!
denise
People serving people and Marys place family shelters in Minneapolis MN always need warm hats and scarves. Its cold in MN!
great giveaway! i’d love to win! 😀
Halosforhope, happy hats (lids for kids) and Hugs for Hope are three great charities that I know of! All involving donations for cancer patients of young and old.
Binky patrol
Hi Craftyone – I took a look at these folks- Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
NOTE to readers: Here is a link with instructions: http://www.binkypatrol.org/article.cfm?id=19
Whow! I hope you feel better! This is a great post, I learnt so much, I didn’t know they were so many colors linked to various cancers. Great awareness indeed. I will try my luck for the contest then 🙂 Take care, C.
My husband is a cancer survivor. I’m in Fl as well, and I bet you could donate to the local cancer center, because the patients are always wearing sweaters and carrying blankets around. I know my husband still gets cold and he has been cancer free for almost 2 years.
Thanks a lot
Thank you for the chance. If I could get back to looming more, the charity that would interest me that I heard of was hats for premature infants. But I haven’t checked into that. I would think there would be lots of restriction not to mention germs. Other than that I would do them for the homeless shelters and the shelter my daughter works at (she has a masters in social work).
Glad to see you back!!! Again, thank you for the chance.(it’s just over the 6 months rule for me)
LindaJ
Knit-a-Square
Hi Robin,
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Knit-a-Square… a great cause.. awesome people – a lot fun with folks ALL OVER THE WORLD from your home computer.
For those that don’t know Here is a Link for Loom Knitters:
http://forum.knit-a-square.com/group/loom-a-square
This is awesome way to increase your stash!!!! Give back to someone in need….Thanks for all the neat hat patterns and and designs Love you link!!
I have loomed some hats for donation through our church and I would like to make some chemo caps/hats in the future as we have through the years lost family and friends to breast and pancreatic cancers. http://Www.samaritansputse.org; http://www.lustgarten.org/
BarbaraJean, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Samaritans Purse, OCC project and have been sending shoe boxes for about 10 years. Thanks for sharing the links.
denise
I don’t have a web site yet 🙁 I am new to all of the looming hats and other things. Once I get hats looking like hats I’m going to make hats for breast cancer, lung cancer, and kidney cancer. For my uncle and my grandma that died from these cancers. I also had a client that had throat cancer that I want to do something for that.
I crochet hats for my Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts for kids in need around the world. They accept gifts in kind, including handmade hats. They can be delivered during their collection weeks (week before Thanksgiving each week) and also accept them anytime of the year mailed to their Boone, NC headquarters. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/
Hey Cheryl, I do OCC all year long ! .. I love this project. I wrote a little post about them for this site: Click Here
Aubrey’s Angels 🙂
Hey Samantha, is this the site: http://aubreysangelsfoundation.com/Home_Page.html ?
Our local shelter and food bank will gladly take knitted items.
Dandi, if possible will you come back and give us a link to your local Shelter and food bank.
Thanks for sharing,
denise
We knit for the homeless in our church stitches group.
Denise, Chica – You were the yarn winner for March – I have yet to get you to respond. I have emailed you, put your name on the Yarn Give-away main page: Click Here , on Facebook. Please email me denise@loomahat.com so that I can get you your yarn.
If you want to see what you won, Click Here
denise
I like Warm Up America. Thanks for the giveaway!!
Glad to see you are feeling better! 😀
Locally we have the local hospital/NICU that will accept them, our community services collects purple beanies to raise awareness of Purple crying. A few of our local churches collect items to give to the homeless as the winters even on the west coast can get pretty cold in Canada.
Hi Aileen, if you can come back and tells which loom you guys use for the Period of Purple crying and what yarn.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing,
denise
This is such a great giveaway! I hope whoever wins will donate some handmade items to a hospital/cancer center. Thanks for this opportunity.
This is so very wonderful of you to do this!
I loom hats, scarves, headbands and booties for the Ukraine. My church goes every summer and helps with VBS at a mission church there. They also help with an orphanage and building project there. Well I am not one to turn down free yarn. Someone had given me some wool blend yarn and well lets just say it’s not very good for making hat, scarves or baby items. So I used it to make some blankets for my dog babies. They love them…. I didn’t want the yarn to go to wait. I have bought some brown and hunter green yarn to make them new blankets with. I just used the yarn I bought since it was a lot softer to make hats and scarves for some of the men and boys. Our church showed a video of the trip from 2013. There was several kids wearing hats and headbands I had made. it just made my heart flip to see those smiling faces wearing something I had made. One of the hats was adult size but this little boy just loved it. it was the color of the Ukraine flag and he just had to have it. It was falling down over his eyes but they said he didn’t care…. He wore that hat everywhere even to bed……
Regina, so funny that you would mention knitting for Ukraine something that has been heavy on my heart for a while. I think your post just gave me conformation. Will your church be accepting hats and scarves for next summer? If yes, can you email me their information. My email is denise@loomahat.com. Or if it’s ok you can come back and post it here in cause someone else would like to send knitted treasures.
Your comment about the little boy put a big smile on my heart. Thanks for sharing this story – so appreciated.
denise 🙂
I donate a percentage of all my sales to the Multiple Myeloma Research. also donate 100% of my breast cancer hat sales to the Susan G. Koman Foundation. Denise the name of my church is Sand Springs Baptist Church. The address is 1212 FM 1616, Athens, Texas 75751. You can put on the box for Ukraine Mission. Also here is a link to the churches website http://www.sandspringsbc.com
Regina,
Thank you so much for the links!
denise
I should add that I am not taking away anything from the orange being for Kidney Cancer,. They are both important diseases and should be made aware of.
Thank you for listing the colors for Cancer.
I use the orange color for Agent Orange, the toxic poison that has affected so many Viet Nam Veterans.
Gloria I have never heard of Agent Orange. What do you make for the Vets and how do you get you treasures to them.
Thanks for sharing,
denise
Agent Orange was used in Viet Nam to kill the foliage, and it has affected a lot of the veterans with a lot of different diseases, and now they are finding that it affects the children that were born after the Veterans came home from Nam. and some grandchildren. I have made hats and scarfs for some of our neighbors that are Vets. I just finished a 10 stitch lap blanket. and plan on taking some to the VA hospital that is not far from our house. I have some hats made. to take in November.
THANK YOU Gloria, I have visited our local VA – WOW it’s embarrassing to say that I forget the need is great there too. Again thanks for the reminder. A 10-lap blanket sounds awesome.
denise
You are very welcome
My boyfriend went through treatment for cancer of the lymph node and tonsil. The clinic had very few hats for men, so I began knitting. T. is healthy now, but I still knit for the Knight Cancer Center.
I have been looming hat and scarves sets for different cancer awareness as i wish to sell them at christmas time and donate half profits to different cancer charities that have affected my family
Wow I learned two things from this. That there is such a thing as appendix cancer and there is a caregivers color (and that’s fantastic!)
This is a great idea! Orange could also be used for Multiple Sclerosis projects. Dark colored yarns are also good for making hats for the homeless, which is something I try to do regularly.
This is a great way to give back!
I have been making items for http://www.carewear.org for over 15 years now. They started out just doing NICU and I think every child should have a great start to life. they now do all kinds of things. It is a great org as you give to the hospital of your choice. They have a website with patterns of knitting, crochet and even sewing. there is a newsletter 4 times a year and they also have a big Make a difference day. I got my daughter involved when she was in collage and she even taught class mates and they helped as well.
Debi, THANK You for the link !
denise
What a wonderful idea to help those who have cancer. I WILL tell my friends in Oudtshoorn, SA about this website and project. God bless all.
Thanks for the chance!
what a wonderful way to share our favourite charities 🙂 mine is as follows. This is local in my hometown http://www.kidswithcancer.ca/
Thanks Trish, for giving us our first Canadian charity link.
VERY much appreciated,
denise
I love making things for different types of charities. Currently am working on a 10 stitch blanket to go to a local hospital for a cancer patient. Another charity is for Arthiritis, when someone gets a treatment, the medicine takes three hours to give it through the veins, they need covers as the roomis cold like those who are receiving chemo. Just a thought!
Hey Carol if you can, please come back and give us links. Never knew about the Arthritis patients.
Thanks for sharing,
denise
Knots of Love does great charity work. I’ve wanted to make beanies for people fighting cancer or for babies in NICU
My mama was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in October of 2013. Before then I had never heard of Multiple Myeloma. My great aunt is an ovarian cancer survivor and a breast cancer survivor. But no one as far as I know has ever had Multiple Myeloma. In June she had a stem cell transplant. We spent 3 months at Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota. My mama just had her 100 day check up and she is in remission. She will never be completely cancer free. But with regular check-ups she can live a long life.
Regina, sooooo glad to hear your mother is doing well. I lost my mother to heart disease in 1993. I was young and when I had my first child it was VERY hard not having her with me. Hold on to to your mom and take good care of her with everything you’ve got – Mothers are truly a blessing from God and not one is replaceable.
Thanks so much for sharing with us. I greatly appreciated it – nothing like a cheerful note,
denise
My favorite thing is yarn mostly cotton but with winter coming I am making hats and scarfs. A thought for you today about giving….You give to get and you get to give and the more you give the larger your Blessings will be. Happy Labor Day!!!
What a thoughtful idea. I love all the different colors.
I love Knitting Rays of Hope on FB. Great opportunity to help others.
Thank you for the opportunity to win and give back at the same time. You are amazing!
Thank you Marci, I LOVE Knitting Rays of Hope too.. I did a post on them , their awesome work and FREE Patterns.
Here’s a link if you’re interested: Click Here
denise
Veterans’ Cap Drive!
Hey Ashley, please come back and give us a link to the Veteran’s Cap Drive.
THANK U!
denise
I am an advanced breast cancer survivor state 3b and was given a 35% chance of survival after chemo, mastectomy, more chemo and 6 wks of radiation therapy. Happy to say this was in 1998 & I’m still here!!! Anne Arundel Medical Ctr accepts hats for breast cancer patients as well as our local American Cancer Society. We have a few local shelters that will accept hats/scarves as well. Also any hospitals that have NICU will accept hats/blankets for the preemies. My inlaws church sponsors a week of feeding/sleeping for 25 men each yr. I think I may get started on making some hats/scarves for this even that happens in March. great give away!!!
Debbie, if you can please return and give us a link for the Anne Arundel Medical Center and your local shelter that accepts hat.
Thanks,
denise
Our local women’s shelter takes donations. Many times the women and kids leave home without hats, scarves and mittens so they are always in need.
There is also a bird sanctuary in CA that is looking for donations of kniited nests
Hi Colleen,
Please come back and give us link if possible to both location and PLEASE tell me what is a knitted nest and what is it used for..
Thanks,
denise
Hospitals that are for children with cancer.
I donate knitted stuff to a homeless shelter in my city. They have a list of items they need on their website, it makes it super easy.
Katie, please come back and give us a link to the website
Mom and I are crocheting/loom knitting scarves for our church’s charity event, the Navajo Children’s Christmas project. These scarves and other goodies will be given to 50 boys and girls via a missionary in the southwest. (Mom signed up for the 25 boy’s scarves and I’m helping her.)
Project Linus
Most of my local animal rescues accept knitted blankets 🙂 Thanx for the chance!
Tammy, thanks so much for sharing – I am VERY interested in this. PLEASE come back and tell us What kind of yarn do you use to make these blankets, what are the measurements and could you give us a link to your local animal rescue. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THE INFO. … especially the type of yarn used.
Thanks,
denise
Birthright of Annapolis is a wonderful local organization and any cancer organization. I think all of us have been affected by this terrible disease in one way or another. Thank you for raising awareness!
I have never done any knitted hats specifically for a charity. I have given many many away to random people on the street though. 🙂
I lost my big sister Vickie White July 27, 2012 to breast cancer and I have a dear that’s in remission & another that’s just starting the fight for her life against this terrible disease. So breast cancer is mine & I just want to say I fight like a girl!!
We hear you Missy – loud and clear. But some day this fight will be over.
I am a first grade teacher, and one of my sweet students is undergoing treatment for neuroblastoma at The University of Michigan Children’s Hospital. This is a cause/organization near & dear to my heart!
My church groups supports many causes. They are all favorites but if I had to narrow it to one, I would have to tods a coin between operation christmas child shoeboxes thru Samaritans Purse or the Red Scarf Project for aging out orphans.
http://Www.fc2success.org for Red Scarf Project
http://Www.samaritansputse.org
denise, I love your name and OCC is one of my favorite cause – OMG this is almost weird.. same name, same favorite charity — could we have been separated at birth 🙂 .. just kidding.
Thanks for sharing and the links.
Here is my link of a charity review I did in 2012 of Samaritans Purse’and their Operation Christmas Child outreach. Dead line is coming up sooooon ..I put a few ideas you might be interested in: Click Here
Baby blankets, baby hats, and chemo hats for Advocate Trinity Hospital on the south side of Chicago. They serve needs of the homeless. In many cases, women will give birth and have nothing for their baby to take them home in. The hospital offers blankets, onesies and hats. There is such a demand. In addition they started and infusion center, we knit hats for cancer patients. Thank you sharing these colors . I try to knit cheerful, colorful hats but that can be hard at times. Thanks for the new pattern and color graph.
I’ve been knitting for years. Now I have arthritis in my hands and that makes it harder to
use the needles. I recently learned to loom knit and now I’m using up all my left over yarn to knit hats for charity. Lots of fun.
GOOD for you Winnie and for those you help! – that’s what I’m talkin about – work around your hardships to help other. Beautiful!
Hey did you check out my last post about adding a thicker grip to your hook. For link: Click Here It might be helpful with your arthritis. We giving loom knitters have to do what we can to keep on knitting some lovins. 🙂
Winnie, if you can .. come back and tell us WHO do you knit for..
denise
Children’s Hospital of Birmingham, AL, accepts donations of knitted hats for babies and for children with cancer. That is where I’ll be taking my little preemie hats.
Hey Debbie would love to know what yarn you use for your preemie hats… and if you loom knit how many rows do you knit for your Preemie hats. I will be doing a post on Newborns and Preemies soon I would love to hear back from folks.
I am new to all this, I have a set of hats to give away to just have not mailed them.
Jeannette,
Come back and tell us WHO you knit for – We really, really, really want to know.
denise
My favorite charity is the Special Olympics.
Great give away!
Lori, could you PLEASE come back and tell us what the new deadline is.
denise
What a great giveaway! Thank you for the free hat patterns. I am brand new to loom knitting. I support motherbear project.org but their bears must be hand knitted or crocheted as far as I know. They are a wonderful organization, wish they would add a loom knit pattern .
Oh my God, I have so been wanting the same thing! I promise to do my best this year to get it together and try to do this.
Thank you Christina,
denise
Vivo en una isla caribeña con clima tropical, Puerto Rico. Por lo tanto no nesecitamos gorros, bufandas, guantes..etc. Sin embargo mi pasión es tejer para ayudar a otros que estan en necesidad, gente que pasa el crudo invierno.. Soy ama de casa, pero mi esposo me apoya para comprar los materiales, él es sobreviviente de cáncer de próstata. No me gusta tejer por el mero placer de tejer para luego guardarlo. Invertir así dinero, tiempo y esfuerzo para mí no tiene sentido. Saber que hay personas en gran necesidad me inquieta e inspira. Por eso he cooperado con diferentes grupos de charity, pero uno de mis favoritos es Bridge and Beyond.
Te felicito por tu maravilloso talento, para tejer y para enseñar. Y te agradezco por el esfuerzo y el profundo amor con que compartes.
Abrazos y bendiciones para ti y tu familia.
Gracias Damaris,
Soy Dominican viviendo en La Florida, EEUU y estoy de acuerdo con TODO lo que dices. Gracias hermana a ti por tu bello comentario.
denise 🙂
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
TO THE WEBPAGE READERS:
I so loved what Damaris had to say that I’ve translated her words so others could read it. I echo her sentiments.
I did a review on her favorite charity – Here is a link: Bridge and Beyond
English Translation:
I live on a Caribbean island with tropical climate, Puerto Rico. Therefore no we don’t need hats, scarves, gloves..etc. But my passion is knitting to help others who are in need, people who spend the harsh winter .. I am a housewife, but my husband supports me in buying the materials, he is a survivor of prostate cancer. I do not like to knit for the pleasure of knitting and then save it. And invest money, time and effort for me makes no sense. Knowing that there are people in great need and inspires me uneasyness. So I cooperated with various charity groups, but one of my favorites is Bridge and Beyond.
I congratulate you for your wonderful talent for weaving and teaching. And I thank you for the effort and the deep love you share.
Hugs and blessings to you and your family.
I’d so love to win this. My daughters aged 3, 7 & 10 have just got into looming and are costing me a fortune! But they’re making beanies for babies born at the state hospitals so I have no problem.
OMG – A 3 YEAR OLD IS LOOMING ! – Please take pictures and share – I would LOVE, Love, love to see a 3 YEAR OLD loom knitting. A video !!!! Trish – I’ll supply each one of them with a skein of their yarn of choice if I can write a post with pics and/or video of them loom knitting. That is beyond awesome.
eMail me if you’re interested,
denise@loomahat.com
I think it’s a great idea. I’ve lost several loved ones to Cancer.
Sorry to hear that Raelyn.:(
Hi, I really enjoy your blog and I am really glad you are back to posting on it. I entered your drawing but don’t understand how one can have 10+ points earned for commenting on blogs when you haven’t been active in a long time? Just a thought. I am not trying to be rude but I just don’t understand the perk for extra entries when there haven’t been recent blogs to add a comment on?. Thank you for your drawings.
Hi Lana,
I understand that it can be a bit confusing. An entry – is just for the raffle. Say you bought a raffle ticket and I told you that if you get your friend to buy a raffle ticket I would give you 10 extra that would encourage you to bring a friend. Well… I want to encourage folks to engage and tell me about their favorite charities so that I know where to send my knitting projects (I live in Florida so I don’t need them) , I get to educate my readers and we all have a good time. That’s worth alot more than 10 extra raffle tickets to me – but I have to keep things reasonable for those that don’t like to chat.
Hope that explains things better,
denise
I have knitted “Chemo” shawls for people who are having chemo. I pray for the person while I am knitting the shawl. I would love to be able to use my round loom to make hats for chemo patients as well.
Jean Ruth, I so LOVE the idea of praying for the receiver while you knit. Thank you for sharing that – sad that I’ve never thought of it. This is EXACTLY why I love to hear from folks.
YOU INSPIRE ME to do great things.
denise
I love the Breast Cancer Site. http://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/bcs/home You can click the link there to help fund mammograms. It’s as simple as a click! My Grandma had breast cancer that spread to her liver and eventually to her brain and she passed away. My Mom is a two time breast cancer survivor and my Grandpa went through treatment for stage 4 Lymphoma at 91 years of age… and is doing great! A friend of mine is currently in treatment for breast cancer. Cancer is a subject very close to my heart, so even if I don’t win the yarn, the awareness this helps to bring is already a win for me, thanks!
D.A., thank God for sunshine after the rain. Thanks for sharing this with us .. And THANK YOU for the link.. LOVE LOVE LOVE Links.
denise