Organization Using 100% Wool Yarn

I am looking for a charitable organization which can use 100% wool yarn. We have a large quantity of this we'd like to donate to a group which can make use of it.

Suggestions please!

Thanks!

Have you considered giving the yarn to a knitting or crocheting group close to you that knits and crochets for charity? Many charities dealing with knitted or crocheted items prefer to get the finished items from knitters and crocheters who donate their time and yarn to make the items. I know some are quite happy to get 100% wool items as long as they are clearly marked so they can be properly washed.

Leah

Please check out the website of Warmwoolies.org! I have been knitting for this group since last February, and have gotten more and more involved as I see what a terrific charity it is. We knit WOOL vests, sweaters, hats and felted booties and send them to children in some of the poorest, coldest places -- our current list includes orphanages in Russian and Kazhakhstan, street children in Mongolia, and the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations in South Dakota, which are about the poorest communities in the United States. Kimberly, the director of Warm Woolies, is currently on her annual trip to the reservations, where she is delivering approximately 1500 pieces of hand-knit clothing. Our total goal for 2006 is 5000 pieces. One thing that I love about Warmwoolies is that it provides yarn, needles and instruction to several knitting groups in nursing homes and retirement homes, giving these elderly people a terrific opportunity to accomplishing something really useful. If you want to send us your wool yarn, I can guarantee it will be put to good use!

--Jackie Hoffman (see Aug. and Sept. "pattern of th month" on the warmwoolies website -- that's me!)

overseas..to give them support and hugs from home..depending on where you are, there just might be someone involved with this also...if you have black wool yarn, there are some troops that can only use black hats and other items..

Donna in S. Indiana

Sorry - forgot to mention that I am in North Carolina. I've tried locating organizations around here, no luck (everyone wants non-wool for their projects here it seems). Will check out warmwoolies and see if there is anyone near here with them -- would ship, but it's 6 BIG boxes of yarn!!!! No black, just nice colors like blues, greens, reds, yellows, etc.

linda

Donna

I've started knitting for The Ships Project, too, and they can use also use brown shades in wool items for ground troops in Iraq, since it is a desert. The colored wool would be good for the ships themselves, since they can have brighter colors. Hats For The Homeless also takes items, and I bet wool would be very welcome, since it will help keep you warm even if it gets wet, an important feature for those unfortunates living outside. It's currently below freezing outside at my place in Arizona, can't imagine how much harder it has to be in other colder parts of the country!

Leah