ChemoCaps was founded in memory of Heather Spoll, who died of cancer in 2000 at the age of 25. She was an avid knitter, and her mother started the organization to provide warm, soft hats to cancer patients in her memory.

ChemoCaps encourages knitters to work locally with their own hospitals and hospice centers to distribute their homemade caps. Knitters (and crocheters, of course) can work individually or form their own chapters, which gives groups the right to use the ChemoCaps logo and patterns.

Whether you work as an affiliate of ChemoCaps or just make some caps on your own to donate to a cancer treatment center, this small gesture can make a big difference in how someone who has lost her (or his) hair because of cancer treatment feels.