Knitting Requests
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We often get requests from students, individuals and the media needing help to complete their projects. With your help, they can do this.
Below you will find requests for information on designer makers, knitting research, needles offered, yarn and needles offered and wanted and people looking for knitters.
Click here to place a similar request
Donations Of Grey Yarn Needed (June 08)
IknitLondon are working with a local community group to knit a model of the soon to be demolished Aylesbury estate in London.
Click here if you can help with a donation of grey yarn.
Crochet Therapy (June 08)
Inga Hamilton, one of our Knitting Artists has set up a project in her local hospital:
"I've been putting crochet packs into a Belfast hospital close to my heart. The visitors to a clinic can take a pack containing everything they need to make a coral. They can then keep it, or send it to me to make into a reef for the wall. The project has taken off much better than my first hopes and now is spreading into further clinics."
Inga is desperately short of crochet hooks
Click here if you can help with a donation of crochet hooks
Pom Pom International (June 08)
Pom Pom International takes interactive pom pom making across the UK and the globe. We are making the world's biggest collective pom pom for peace. Anyone can participate at one of our interactive workshops, or by making a pom pom for peace at home, work, knitting or corochert group....wherever
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We
are in desperate need of yarn donations to keep the project
going. If you have any yarn you no longer need, no matter what type,
colour, or quantity, please send it to:
Pom Pom International
Box 230
372 Old Street
London
EC1V 9AU
Click here for website and more information
Can You Knit Plastic Bags? (May 08)
A Garden Design Company is looking for a knitter(s) who can knit them a sail, hammock and catsuit to be part of their display at Hampton Court Flower Show 8th-15th July.
Click here if you would like further information
Knitting Challenge
Zoe Fletcher is in her second year at Manchester University and needs your help for a knitting challenge she's involved in. Her aim is to knit a giant 3-D computer keyboard and needs help to knit the individual keys. She has kits ready and waiting complete with yarn and instructions.
Click here to contact Zoe if you can help
Lace Knitting Exchange
John Puddick from Shoeburyness in Essex is organising an exchange of knitted lace and would like to encourage as many knitters as possible to take part.
Click here to find out exactly what's involved. If you've never tried knitting lace before, this is a very simple project for you to try
Arts Council Survey
From Friday 1 February 2008, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s first ever national survey of amateur arts groups in England goes live. VAN urges all voluntary arts and crafts groups in England to take part in the survey. The survey will help focus attention on the wealth of amateur and voluntary arts opportunities enjoyed by millions of people across the country every day - often with little publicity. The research has the potential to be very useful for arts groups, who will be able to refer to the findings when applying for funding, and for policy-makers, who can use it to look at how amateur arts groups could be better supported. The results will be published in the summer.
Click here to read about and take part in this survey with reference to your knitting group
Elizabeth Muir has written with the following request:
"I am researching the past to try to better understand the social and economic impacts of hand knitting. Why did it develop in some cultures and not others? What have been the drivers to establish and maintain hand knitting in a community. How does the take-up of hand knitting vary across class, gender, age and other variables? How has the law, religion or cultural traditions impacted upon people's hand knitting? Any help with references, information and comments would be most welcome."
Click here to contact Elizabeth, if you can help
Click here to follow Elizabeth's progress in her research
Wanted
Donations Of Needles And Yarn Needed For New After School Knitting Club In Halton-on-Lune, Lancaster
Kizzy Felstead sends the following request: "I have just started running (voluntarily as child's mum) a knitting/crochet club after school at my son's school. I am looking for yarn, needles, hooks and patterns specifically for children. Any donations would be very welcome."
Click here to contact Kizzy if you can help
Offered
Don Hitchings lives in Southwick West Sussex and has a large amount of wool, patterns and knitting needles he would like to give away to anyone who can make good use of them.
Click here to contact Don for more information
2008
Knitting For Quitting
Sharon Thomas is looking into the benefits of knitting as an aid to giving up smoking. If you have found that knitting has helped you to give up or know of any anecdotal evidence, please get in touch.
Click here to let us know
Therapy
A large volume of anecdotal evidence is needed to prove the therapeutic benefits of knitting, crochet and cross stitching. There is now the opportunity to present this to a group of doctors and researchers and for everyone to gain from the findings. Normally anecdotal evidence is not taken into account, but if enough is collected (thousands of stories) and documented properly, it will be difficult to ignore.
To make the most of this unique opportunity, we need the help of as many knitters and stitchers as possible
Click here to take part in the survey on Stitchlinks website (click on 'Questionnaire')
Yarn:
Do you have a stash of yarn in your cupboard just longing for a good home?
Many schools are organising after school knitting clubs and are in need of donations of yarn. Please let us know if you have any to spare and we will make sure it reaches those who will make best use of it.
Click here to send details
Offered:
Jim Maycock is trying to find a good home for a substantial number of knitting needles of various sizes. He lives in the Manchester area and would be happy to deliver them locally.
Click here to contact Jim
Claire Cowans of Blackburn in Lancashire has a large amount of wool she would like to donate to a good cause. Quite a lot is 4ply on cones as Claire used to be a machine knitter.
Click here to contact Claire if you know anyone who would benefit from her wool
Annie Rayson, who lives in Hockley Heath, near Birmingham, is in the process of clearing out her cupboards and has a range of odds and ends of hand knitting yarn in a variety of grades and colours.
Click here to contact Annie for more details
Judith, who runs the Westminster 'Cast Off' Group (and friends) have some spare yarn they would like to donate to a London school.
Click here to contact Judith if you know of a school who would be able to collect and make use of the yarn
Wanted
Knitters
Asa is a knitwear designer from Sweden based in Manchester. She is looking for a few good knitters that can help knit her designs.
Click here to contact Asa if you can help
Yarn and Needles
These are needed for a School Knitting Club at Notting Hill and Ealing High School in London. If you have any you could donate, please get in touch.
Click here to contact Kate Naameh at the school
Double Knit Wool
Geraldine Trower from Basingstoke knits and crochets blankets and bed jackets for her local hospice and would be grateful to anyone who would like to donate any double knit wool for this cause
Click here to contact Geraldine if you can help
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