88: Tipping the Hat to Knots of Love

While at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospital today, we saw beautiful and simple hats for cancer patients in a donation box, so I found the nonprofit Knots of Love for today's Donations by the Dozen. For ten years, "Our mission at Knots of Love is to warm the hearts and heads of those experiencing traumatic hair loss.  Our volunteers lovingly hand-knit and crochet caps for those struggling with treatment-induced hair loss and tiny Neonatal blankets for fragile new lives in incubators." (http://www.knotsoflove.org/about-us) If you are interested in donating hats or ear, you can find out about that and more on their giving tab, which also includes patterns, yarns styles, and tips. 

Facts about Knots of Love.

♥ All caps & neonatal blankets are given away 100% FREE of charge.♥ Since Knots of Love’s inception in June 2007, we have donated over 330,000 caps.♥ Knots of Love currently donates to over 550 treatment centers, infusion centers, hospitals and oncology offices across the the USA.♥ Knots of Love currently donates over 4,000 caps and blankets per month.♥ Knots of Love is a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity, based in Southern California.♥ Knots of Love provides an exclusive gift…Our primary goal is to brighten the lives of those in need with kindness and love.♥ Caps provide a fashionable way to cover hair loss and help to restore self- esteem.♥ Knots of Love is dedicated to creating hand-made, heart and head warming knitted and knotted (crocheted) chemo caps for people transitioning through the effects of chemotherapy and other life threatening illness and blankets to fragile new lives in incubators.♥ Knots of Love currently has over 1,000 dedicated and passionate members who donate their time and talent by hand-making caps through the art of knit and crochet.♥ Knots of Love brings volunteers, patients and families together. Our organization equally helps those making the caps and blankets and the patients who receive them.♥ Our gift is simple, human warmth and kindness to someone in need. People of all ages are in need of love, kindness and support as they wage the fight of their lives.(http://www.knotsoflove.org/about-us) 

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