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Charitable Crafters
Contact: Tina Shaddox

email: tshaddox@ivillage.com
World Wide Web: http://pages.ivillage.com/tshaddox/charitablecrafters
Charitable Crafters accepts knitted, crocheted, or sewed clothing, outerwear, or toys for donation to local charities. We give to our crisis nursery, homeless shelters, battered women's shelter, Kid's Closet, and other social service organizations that do not charge a fee for the donations.

http://www.charitablecrafters.org/index.html

A list of Charitable Knitting across the Us that I found

http://www.woolworks.org/charity.html

My favorite Charitable Patterns that I have knit:

Felted Mittens: http://www.allfiberarts.com/library/bl/blfeltedmitts.htm

Five Hour Baby Sweater: http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/kp3.html

Waffle Knit blanket http://knitting.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=knitting&cdn=hobbies&tm=18&gps=73_1020_1276_791&f=21&su=p445.92.150.ip_&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.needlebeetle.com/fionasfriends/free/wb.html

Dish cloth blanket….

Patterns I would like to try or that look fun:

Preemie Hats from Carissa http://carissaknits.blogspot.com/2007/07/preemie-hats-for-charity.html

Warm up America Squares Pattern by lion brand can be found here: http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/kwetq-warmUpAmericaSquares.html This site also has other projects like caps.

Projects:

Mother Bear Project:

http://www.motherbearproject.org/

The Mother Bear Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing comfort and hope to children, primarily those affected by HIV/AIDS in emerging nations, by giving them a gift of love in the form of hand-knit and crocheted bears.

The response has been overwhelming, with people wanting to help from all over the world. Thousands of patterns have been distributed, and wonderful bears have been received from people of all ages, backgrounds and knitting abilities. It has brought people together to do something kind in the face of a horrible problem

Warm Up America

http://www.warmupamerica.com/home.html

Warm Up America! (WUA!) is an organization made up of volunteers who create handmade afghan blankets, clothing and accessories to help those in need. These items provide warmth and comfort to people who have lost their homes, fled abusive relations, or are being cared for in hospices, shelters, hospitals, and nursing home.

Project Linus

http://www.projectlinus.org/index.shtml

Project Linus National Headquarters is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization with a two-fold mission:

First, it is our mission to provide 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."

Second, it is our mission to provide a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children

Socks for soldiers

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SOCKFORSOLDIERS/?yguid=184207225

knitpicks: http://www.knitpicks.com/Palette%20Fair%20Isle%20Cardigan_PD50455220.html

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Wed, 14 November 2007

Week 3 You are what you read....

Week Three

Magazines

What do you read?

I love them all:

Here is a link to the magazines: http://amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_seeall_4?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=knitting%20magazines&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aknitting%20magazines%2Ci%3Amagazines

Here is what I get in the mail:

Knitters : I go to Stitches Midwest in Chicago with Monica

Interweaver Knits

Vogue

Creative knitting which I wont be renewing I don’t think

Knit N style

Cause I love Melissa leapman

CASt on which is the Knitters guild of America mag 4 issues a year

Wool gathering Meg’s and EZ news letter

GO to store to Buy

Simply Knitting

Knitting

One I don’t buy

Knit 1 Very youngish

What is on my needles:

Bowling Bag by She knits renamed Melly Bag

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=34352

Dad’s Guernsey Based on EZ percentage system and Meg Swansen’s woolgathering on the subject from this summer it can be found here. http://www.schoolhousepress.com/

Eli’s Stocking: It can be found here… I am making it for my children so it is MJ’s and DL’s stocking since I refuse to graph out their names. I will post a pic when I am done. http://www.schoolhousepress.com/knittinginprogress.htm

Lady Eleanor in Noro for a friend who’s father passed…it is my version of a prayer shawl… I will post a pic of this too when I am done but here are some others. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=lady%20eleanor&w=all&s=int

Newly off my needles:

My proudest moment as a knitter can be seen here: mazziofamily.blogspot.com

It is the Swedish Dubbelmossa….It is completely jog-less and knit in Icelandic that is unspun.

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Fri, 2 November 2007

week Two EZ

My love of Elizabeth Zimmerman

How I found her...

Why I love her

School-housepress.com

Meg Swansen a genius in her own right

http://www.schoolhousepress.com/gen_books.htm

Which videos I love

EZ projects I have done

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/cmazzio/dubbelmossa

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/cmazzio/a-norwegian-sweater

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/cmazzio/pi-shawl-july

What I want to do

The books

Websites

http://zimmermaniacs.blogspot.com/

knitpicks.com

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Thu, 1 November 2007

Week One First Podcast

The link to the podcast is: http://knittintatnight.mypodcast.com/

I know the episode is a little rough but the recording wasnt as smooth I had hoped but next week will be better.

This week I talked about:

Learn to knit kit by Caron http://store.knitting-warehouse.com/068603.html

Pure and Simple Knitting patterns http://www.knittingpureandsimple.com/

Here is a pic of my mothers...please remember this is a bad pic....

Here is my husband's sweater which is done using EZ's EPS system which you can find in any of her books. http://www.schoolhousepress.com/

I also talked about Zephyr style patterns which you can see at http://www.zephyrstyle.com/home.html

Thanks for tuning in and I promise next week will be better.....

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Thu, 1 November 2007

Welcome to Liberated Syndication

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