Knitting Pals by the Bay
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We knit chemo caps for children, teens and adults who have cancer. We use soft yarn, and knit in the round so the caps have no seams and are comfortable.
[edit] General Guidelines for Donations
The Pals came into being with one purpose, to knit chemo caps for Bay Area cancer patients of all ages. The need is great and the project is ongoing. Hospitals and clinics in San Francisco, Daly City, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Burlingame, Palo Alto, and Oakland are receiving donated caps for children, teens, and adults. If you are interested in participating, please contact the Pals at their website, noted below.
See link below for donation specifics, free patterns, and mailing address. It's a Flash site, so all pages have the same base URL. There is a list of locations that are currently being given to, and a list of drop off locations all around the greater Bay Area (and beyond!), and an email link for inquiring where one should mail in caps if desired.
The Knitting Pals began in San Francisco in 2002, and has been expanding into more locations ever since! Perhaps you'd like to start a local "Knitting Pals" organization where you are. Since I don't have permission (yet?) to post folks' contact information, I'll just tell you it's at the Knitting Pals website, which gives a local Knitting Pal contact, and lists where caps are currently being donated.
Knitting Pals By The Bay, Main Branch Over 10,000 Caps donated in the San Francisco Bay Area since July 2002! Founder and Head Knitting Pal: Jenny Carp Geographic Area: The San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California
Knitting Pals By The Bay, East Bay Branch Over 2,457 Caps donated since November 2004! Geographic Area: Oakland, Alameda & Contra Costa
KP Partners for Chemo Caps Geographic Area: Los Angeles and Orange County
Knitting Pals By The Sound Over 2,141 Caps donated since March 2004! Geographic Area: Bellevue, Bothel, Kirkland, Redmond and Seattle, Washington
Knitting Pals By The Creek 183 Caps donated to The Cancer Comfort Ministry Geographic Area: Mill Creek, WA
Knitting Pals of Sacramento 36 caps donated to the American Cancer Society Geographic Area: Sacramento
Knitting Pals of South Puget Sound Geographic Area: Auburn, Olympia, Key Peninsula Area, Puyallup and Tacoma
Knitting Pals of the North Bay 200 caps donated to Kaiser Santa Rosa infusion center Geographic Area: Santa Rosa, CA
Lost Sierra Knitting Pals Geographic Area: Loma Rica, CA
Knitting Pals of Corvallis Geographic Area: Corvallis, OR
Knitting Pals of Glendale, Arizona 176 Caps donated since January 2007! Geographic Area: Glendale, Phoenix, and Flagstaff Arizona
Knitting Pals of Palm Springs Geographic Area: Palm Springs California
If you are interested in starting a branch in your local community, please contact the Knitting Pals for information and help - info is at the website.
Thanks be to Jenny Carp for having this great idea.
[edit] External links
This is a Flash website, meaning the individual pages do not have individual URLs. Go and look around, there are directions a lovely cap that was designed for the group by a member, contacts for groups expanding all over, and lists of places currently receiving caps from this organization.
