Community Service Projects
The Minnesota Knitters' Guild sponsors several ongoing projects that benefit
seniors, homeless kids and families, and others who can use a warm scarf and
a good thought. We donate yarn to seniors who then knit hats and scarves
and mittens for the Children's Home Society. We have donated funds to the
Duluth Salvation Army Auxiliary so they could purchase the yarn they need
for their own charitable knitting. And we provide yarn and accessories to
women at the Shakopee Women's Prison, who knit for their own children and
for other children who are being placed in shelters.
When you join the Guild, you have the opportunity to contribute to these and
other projects that give us the joy of knitting, along with the blessing of
helping others.
Check back on our website each quarter for information on a new project.
Better yet - join the Minnesota Knitters' Guild, and learn how you can help
out with knitting for needy babies at the Hennepin County Medical Center's
Midwife Clinic, for families on Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South
Dakota, women at Shakopee Women's Prison, citizens of Afghanistan, and other
projects that are sure to touch your own personal choices.
Here are a few articles about some of our past projects:
Due at our July 2008 meeting: baby afghans to help prevent domestic abuse.
How we helped 1,200 children get “little red stockings” in 2007.
Our first-quarter project for 2007 repeats our fourth-quarter project
for 2004: Bundles of Love, a Minnesota nonprofit dedicated to helping infants and their families.
How MKG members reach out to our community with yarn and supplies.
Anchors aweigh to the second-quarter 2007 charity-knitting project: the Ships Project.
Our fourth-quarter project for 2006: Caps to the Capital, dedicated to keeping newborns warm.
Our third-quarter community-service project for 2006: making warm clothes for children in Laos, with help from the Ramsey County Children's Home Society.
2nd quarter 2006 MKG community service project is dedicated to keeping local families in need warm. Items will be collected at the June guild meeting.
Our first-quarter community-service project for 2006: knitting slippers for U.S. servicemen and servicewomen.
Our fourth-quarter project for 2005:
knitting mittens for local children and adults who need to keep warm this
winter.
Our third-quarter project for 2005: knitting helmet warmers for men and women serving in
the military.
Our second-quarter project for
2005: Charitable Crafters.
Our first-quarter project for 2005: the
Mother Bear Project.
The Minnesota Knitters' Guild has been supported the Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency for many years. We regularly collect yarn and knitted clothing for public-health nurses to give to the families they care for.
Our second-quarter project for 2004: Crisis Nurseries,
for young children who need support and compassion.
The first-quarter community service project for 2004 is knitted dolls and bears — or knitted
clothing for dolls and bears — for children away from their families in situations of risk.
Preemie mittens are the third-quarter 2003 Minnesota Knitters' Guild community
service project.
For many years, the MKG has supported the Little Red Stocking program of the Children's Home Society, donating yarn to volunteer knitters who make hats, mittens, and scarves for needy children.
In summer 2002, the Minnesota Knitters' Guild provided yarn and plastic needles to support groups at the Minnesota Correctional Facility for Women at Shakopee, which houses about 370 women.
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