Caps For Good is a joint project of Save The Children & Warm Up America. Baby caps are knitted or crocheted from simple patterns & then sent to Save The Children, which then provides them to new mothers in developing countries. Such a simple thing, a cap. Babies are not able to regulate their temperatures for the first months of life. A cap goes a long way toward retaining heat lost from the head & keeping a baby warm, less vulnerable to infection.
Two venues in York are participating in this effort. Last week when I was at UnCommon Threads (at their new location in the Queensgate Shopping Centre), there were nearly 20 hats in the collection box. This store has really taken to this project. The caps will be collected on 17 Feb 2011. I’d like to think there will be 50 hats by then…
The other venue is the Kreutz Creek Library in Hallam, PA. This site has a very active knitting/crocheting group. Last Tuesday there were 6 hats in the box. In addition, some kind soul donated a good sized bag of soft pink & blue yarn skeins. I took home a skein of pink & plan to get at least 3 hats out of it. The hats work up so quickly & it’s a great opportunity to try a new design that might ordinarily take up a lot of time & effort. The caps will be collected on 17 Feb 2011, so there’s still plenty of time to make a hat or two. I know I made 15 hats last week, with all the snow. My plan for this evening is to sit by the fire, catch up on the TiVo’d shows & make some baby caps!
Tags: baby hats, Caps For Good, community knitting, knitting
