EDIT: so the timing on this post was not the greatest. I scheduled it three days ago and forgot about it until it popped up in my feed. Along with tweets about, for example, hospital staff evacuating a NICU down dark stairwells because the hospital generator failed.
Let’s give this at least a few days and revisit it later. At this point it sounds like those kids have bigger things on their minds than knitting.
I was recently pointed to this Ask Metafilter thread by user zoomorphic, who is teaching an after-school knitting class for at-risk students at a high school in Harlem. Unfortunately, the school was only able to allot the class $60 for supplies, which zoomorphic spent on knitting needles and acrylic yarn.
The kids want better yarn, but none of them can afford it. These kids need this class, and they need the encouragement to stay in it, stick with it, and make something for themselves that they will truly love. I firmly believe that, which is why I am packing up some pretty sweet stuff to mail off to them.
If you would like to donate some yarn and/or other knitting supplies, leave a comment with your email address and I will send you zoomorphic’s mailing address. What a great way to de-stash!
I have some yarn I can donate, about 20 balls. It’s not spectacular – it’s Gala sport weight acrylic – but it’s new and useful. I’d be glad to mail it to NYC. Just send me the address, I’ll do the rest!
Thanks!
I have some large skeins I bought…if you want them I will gladly send them!!!! Address please.
I can send some yarn….will present to knitting group as well.
Me, me, me, me! A stash busting donation would free up some room in my house and turn on more fiber addicts. In the meantime I can start collecting a box to send.
Me, too, and my knitting group. We need time to get the stuff in boxes. They need to get something great as soon as this disaster starts to turn and they get back to school.
Thank you all so, so much! I am waiting to hear back from her, to confirm that she is okay and at home and able to receive mail. Once I have that info, I’ll send out her address. (Holding off on that for the moment, since so many people have had to evacuate.)
I would love to send them some yarn.
I have yarn to share. :O)
I have way more yarn than I’ll ever use in my lifetime.
I have some extra yarn that needs a good home…
I’d like to donate as well–once the address is secured.
thanks!
I would also be happy to send yarn…when the time is right please send the mailing address.
I can probably cull the stash a bit for this.