Knitting in the News: Charities Worldwide Benefit from Knitters

Most of the news about knitters this week has to do with how we use our needles to help others. There's the Helping Hands Knitters in Longford, Wales, that's celebrating its first anniversary and has already contributed to charity events locally as well as the Save the Children knitting campaigns.

A group at a senior center in Canada meets once a month to learn from each other, and they plan on knitting warm goodies for less fortunate children for Christmas.

Women in Australia are working for the Wrap with Love program, which involves knitting squares that are made into wraps and sent to 21 countries around the world, while a group in India knits prayer shawls, which are soothing both to recipients and the people who make them.

And a woman in California has singlehandedly (well, she probably used both her hands) knit 127 hats in eight months that are going to Mongolia to help keep people warm there.

Finally, there's no charity link that I can tell, but knitters young and old recently got together to knit a river that will be on display at the Saltaire Arts Festival and that its creators hope will encourage more people to take up the craft.