Charity, Ravelry-Style and Crochet Guild-Style
I logged into Ravelry a couple of days ago and was greeted by the recent Ravelry update (This Week in Ravelry #8), which happened to feature/lead to several charity thingies… (thingies is a technical term).
Generous Ravelers
If you have a Ravelry membership (sorry, this won’t work if you can’t log in), then check out the Vintage Crochet for Charitable Giving article. For example, I’d like to note this paragraph:
In 1916, the Home Needlework Magazine frequently included articles with “small things to make” for church charity fairs. Popular items were crocheted, because – it was explained – “crochet is so popular.”
Yay, popular crochet! Crocheters are generous! Anyway, the article goes on to list a bunch of threads about what Ravelry members are doing for charity! Very nice.
Crochet Guild of America / Charity Section
While I was reading, I found the following link for people who crochet, which lists a whole bunch of crafting for charity projects from the Crochet Guild of America. There are 82 projects/charities on there right now, although their links could use a cleanup. Some examples are …
- Angels for Hope sent 68,871 butterflies, angels and smiley faces to people in need of hope (people who are injured or ill) in 2007.
- Needle Arts Mentoring Program of the Helping Hands group pairs adults and youth to encourage building bridges across generations through the needle arts of knitting and crochet.
- Project Hope Afghan is a group focusing on cancer patients at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, TX (I think I picked this because I used to work across the street). It started in 1997 - don’t know if it’s ongoing, but hey, this sounds like the Share A Square project, eh?
