Good Deeds Volume One: Hats

10/28/2013

This is something that I have wanted to do for quite a while. Finally, the announcement can be made that Volume One of Good Deeds is released! At the bottom of this blog post is the first of a few drawings to celebrate the release!

This project is a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Connections; a non-profit based in Palo Alto, CA that offers support to those dealing with breast cancer. In addition to support groups, they also provide opportunity to attend discussions with medical providers who are able to answer questions regarding treatment, symptoms, and prevention.

More than this, Breast Cancer Connections also organizes a boutique where clients can "shop" for wigs and hats (all provided at no charge!), and they have an oncology esthetician who meets with clients to offer beauty tips!

Buy Now (.pdf) $15.00

The collection is available as an e-book (.pdf) download via Ravelry, and 100% of the proceeds benefit Breast Cancer Connections. There are many ways you can contribute:

Purchase the e-book for yourself, or as gifts for friends on Ravelry - Everyone gets a varied collection of knitting (and one crochet!) patterns that they can make for themselves, or give as gifts
Use the patterns to make some hats for Breast Cancer Connections - have each member of your craft group purchase a copy of the collection (raising money for BCC), and then do a drive to make and donate hats. Mail them in with notes of support as a goodwill group effort
Blog/Chat/Share the good deeds: Talk with your online and social media friends about the collection and the importance of self exams, checkups, and preventative care. Use your voice to provide support to others. Contemplate and discuss other ways to help others in your community
Donate - either time, talent, or money to help improve the lives of others.

The slideshow below shows the different patterns available in the collection. Use the arrows or the thumbnail images below to navigate, and click on an image to be directed to the pattern's page on Ravelry.

Good Deeds Drawing!

There are prizes to give with this launch! The amazing folks at Blue Moon Fiber Arts have donated a $100 gift certificate as one of the prizes!

Want to enter? (I know you do!!) - here's how:

Post a comment on this blog post, sharing an example of a good deed you do for others, or that someone does for you. (Be sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you're the winner!)

Deadline to enter: 11:59PM PST, November 10, 2013

The winner will be announced on November 11, 2013.

Enter as many times as you like before the deadline. All winners will be selected by random number generator. Thank you, and good luck, good deed-doers!!

Winner!

UPDATE: Congratulations to Carrie Pugh! - She's the lucky winner of the $100.00 gift certificate to Blue Moon Fiber Arts.

Congratulations, Carrie!

Thank you to everyone who commented and shared the good deeds they do for others. It's inspiring to hear your stories!

Comments

Danielle H

10/28/2013 1:29pm

I am a Bosom Buddy. We are a group of six women who knit breast protheses for breast cancer survivors in Arkansas.

Marjoleine de Waal

10/28/2013 1:40pm

I knit hats for Halos of Hope, to date I've made 5 and donated 6 more that were made by a friends mother.
I also headed an effort to send elephants to Elephants Remember Joplin, we sent 101!

Kelly Jensen

10/28/2013 1:44pm

I host a stash sale every year at my Store! We ask that $5 be donated to participate. This is to shop or sell your stash and all of this goes to the Charity. The organization that we raise $ for annually is the only shelter among other amazing services that it provides, that takes care of homeless FAMILIES in the surrounding counties. We raised $1700 plus this year for a total of about $5000 over the past four years.My store and I do this with not a single penny being taken out of the donation fund and it has become an amazing community event!

Sandi Rosner

10/28/2013 2:25pm

I'll give money to any homeless person with a child or a dog.

Tracie Nixon

10/28/2013 2:55pm

I have knit preemie hats for our local hospital and helmet liners for the troops in Afghanistan. I have a brother-in-law, nephew and nephew-in-law who are all in Special Forces of the Army, so this one is close to my heart.

Carol

10/28/2013 4:18pm

I ran the Boston half-marathon this year and raised $1000 for cancer research at Dana Farber.

Berni

10/28/2013 7:40pm

Every week I bring in food to my church for the families our parish helps support.

Sandy Hamilton

10/29/2013 8:38am

I just downloaded the book. The patterns are beautiful and I know I will be making many of the designs either for cancer warriors or for the homeless population. And just maybe a little something for myself.

Mary Ann Kramer

10/29/2013 7:13pm

I crochet warm but "cool" hats for teens on Pine Ridge Reservation, SD.

Angie Marshall

10/30/2013 6:13am

I run Half Marathons to raise money for St. Jude.

Carrie Pugh link

10/30/2013 6:41am

I knit hats for the "Period of Purple Crying". It is a wonderful organization where you knit purple hats for newborns...it is to remind parents who go through rough times when a newborn is crying & when they look down at the little purple hat on their heads it is supposed to remind them not to shake your baby. Here is a link if anyone is interested in signing up. http://clickforbabies.org/
Thanks,
Carrie Pugh

Analiese

10/30/2013 7:05am

Every year I make baby blankets and hats and donate them to the local hospital for the new babies that need something warm to go home in

Will

10/31/2013 7:10pm

I feel weird tooting my own horn!
I volunteer once a week at the local Free Clinic.

will

10/31/2013 7:14pm

oh and the needle exchange too

Laura

10/31/2013 7:32pm

I teach women to knit in exchange for a donation of baby booties to a Crisis Pregnancy Center in my town! It sure would be sweet to use some BMFA superwash yarn for some of those booties. :)

Brenda Mendes

11/04/2013 8:06am

I send gifts to a children's home in the west indies, and I help anywhere i can

Linda

11/05/2013 4:47pm

I'm so blessed, a cancer survivor for 10 years. I knit for folks in need to pay my blessings forward. My mom was struck ill with leukemia in July. Feeling so helpless, I knit prayer squares for the other patients in her ward to bring them a sense of hope. Unfortunately, mom lost her battle in just 5 short weeks. I knit scarves for the amazing oncology nurses who cared for mom so lovingly, my wearable hugs of gratitude. If my knitting can bring comfort and hope to others, it helps me heal and make some sense of life's chaos.

Tom Bloom

11/06/2013 9:25am

I am in two prayer shawl groups and have recently joined the care shawl group that creates shawls for patients at our local residential hospice. I'm currently planning a shawl for a friend who is going through a totally unexpected and messy divorce.

Lynn N link

11/08/2013 8:01pm

I started a group with my friend Bonnie called "Because You're Special" that knits items for women in Sun City, Bluffton, SC that are going through Chemo. I specially design all the items which are knitted by volunteers. Each women receives a beautiful handmade fabric bag just for her filled with a hat, socks, beaded fingerless gloves, beaded bracelet, neck scarf, body bar lotion, chap stick, water bottle and a handmade card of encouragement. Everything in the bag is designed to lift her spirits during this difficult journey.

Lynn link

11/09/2013 9:27am

I walked 10 miles in the Locomotion Breast Cancer Walk this past October.

Joe Nasal

11/09/2013 9:55am

After moving to Sun City, SC, my wife and her knitting bud, began a program (Because You're Special) that brings some comfort to Ladies of Sun City that are dealing with the affects of Cancer. She is my hero!

Laura

12/19/2013 5:05pm

Rather than toot my own horn, I want to share what my lovely neighbor B. has done for me. I had major surgery six weeks ago, and for the first two she brought us dinner 3-4 nights a week, and since than has brought over cookies and other delicious treats. It may seem like a small thing, but her love and generosity have meant so much to both my husband and I!

Stephanie H.

12/19/2013 6:43pm

I love making knitted and crochet dolls for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child gives children around the world shoes boxes filled with things like toys and toiletries that were prepared by those who donate. This year I made a sock monkey hat and matching doll for the shoe boxes I prepared.

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