Thousands of knitting clubs and organizations across the United States meet frequently to gossip, laugh and knit baby clothes for the sheer pleasure of donating them to different organizations who help parents cope with their newborn babies in need. Consider knitting baby caps, booties and blankets and donating them to 1 of the following organizations if your knitting club is looking for something rewarding to do with your left over scraps of yarn. However keep in mind, new borns have terribly delicate skin so be sure to use the softest baby weight yarn you can find.

Hospitals – Premature babies and newborns with critical medical needs often spend the first few weeks of their lives in the cold, sterile environment of the Neo Natal Care Unit. Parents who are already distraught over their newborns feel even more anxiety thinking that their little ones are spending their first days in an environment that in no way compares to their cozy nursery waiting at home. Very little caps and blankets and booties help cozy up the atmosphere a little bit – for the parents as well as the child.

Sadly, some parents also have to deal with the death of a newborn and often they only get to hold that child one time – to say goodbye. Ask your local hospital if the have need of baby blankets so the parents can snuggle the child and then bring the blanket home as a keepsake.

Women’s Shelters – Women and children in shelters always need all the help they can get and hand knitted items make their lives a little warmer and brighter, too. In fact, you could donate knitted items for moms and older kids in addition to baby clothes, too.

Your Church – Check with your church for a list of families in need in your area. The pastors typically have the inside track on the families who need help and the mothers who are most needy. If nothing else, maybe your knitting club might have a yard sale with your projects and donate the proceeds to the church.

The Animal Shelter – Nobody ever thinks of the animal shelter but puppies get cold, too. And all dogs like a warm blanket to roll up in. Consider creating blankets for your local animal shelter if the folks in your knitting club are huge animal lovers.
Your Local Craft Shop – If you are not sure who to approach try your local craft or yarn shop.

If your knitting club meets every week, consider making one meeting a month a Charity meeting. Or make all of them about donating your knit baby clothes to folks in need. The only thing better than gossiping, laughing and knitting together is donating your knit baby clothes to somebody who can really use the hug.

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Aside from the fact that knitting is such a pleasurable, relaxing hobby, a lot of people like to knit because they can knit free baby clothes. I remember helping my grandmother roll yarn and then watching her knit baby blankets and hats and booties for the ladies in the neighborhood. And she told me about helping her grandmother do the same thing. But it never occurred to me, until I started knitting for my family, that my grandmother was actually knitting free baby clothes for everybody. Not only was this her way of relaxing at the end of the day, but she was being frugal at the same time.

Do you remember helping your grandmother roll yarn? I do. I’d spend what seemed like hours sitting there on the floor in front of her with my hands spread out in front of me, holding the yarn while she wound it into neat little balls. But I had forgotten about the times that I sat in that very same position and she was winding the yarn onto my hands to begin with. You see, before my grandmother turned all that yarn into pretty coloured balls, it used to be somebody’s sweater.

In my grandmother’s day nothing went to waste. Nothing went into the trash until it had been used and reused and reused again. They were frugal back then. They’d been through the Depression and hard times and they knew the value of a dollar. My grandmother loved to knit and I remember watching her look at all the gorgeous yarns at the yarn shop. I could see her dreaming about the baby sweaters and baby blankets she’d make with every soft little ball. However she rarely bought her yarn at the yarn shop. More often than not, my grandmother got her yarn for her creations for free.

These days when folks clean out their closets they donate all of that used clothing to the local thrift shop but back in my grandmother’s day those clothes were bagged up and passed on to family members. Every family had a bag or a box of used clothing stashed in the back of a closet. Clothing that had been lovingly cared for – patched and mended and washed dozens of times. But if it was still wearable you did not dream of throwing it away. Somebody might need it!

All of these stunning quilts you see in the antique shops were lovingly made by piecing together bits of cloth from these old clothes. Finally worn beyond repair, these items of clothing were cut into tiny squares and circles and made into patchwork quilts. And just as denim pants and calico dresses were turned in to free quilts, the yarn from old afghans, sweaters, and yes, even old baby blankets was unraveled, washed and wound into those pretty little balls to be reworked into new free baby clothes.

If you’ve got an heirloom baby blanket in your family that was handed down from your grandmother or her grandmother before her, chances are the yarn in that blanket was reworked from another garment because your great grandmother most likely really did enjoy knitting, but what she really enjoyed was knitting free baby clothes.

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