Peace of Mind Organizing

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29 January 2008

I’ve somehow ended up with some yarn that I can’t imagine I’ll ever knit with. Some acrylic, some fun fur, some other novelty yarns. On a larger scale, I ended up with an embarrassingly large collection of straight and circular needles I’ll never use. Those were purchased on ebay and didn’t turn out to be to my liking.

Today, I parted with those items and not only felt good about creating space in my craft room, but also was able to help others. As I learned about on the Cast On podcast from the fabulous Brenda Dayne, Interim House, a six-month residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility for women in Philadelphia, has a knitting and crochet program for their clients. And they need yarn and needles. You can read about the knitting program, and see photographs of the great stuff that’s being created here.

I emailed Kathy Duffy (mcduf@aol.com) who encouraged me to send the donation and told me that they give needles to the women to keep, so they’re always in need of needles as well as yarn.

I put out a call to local knitters, who generously donated more needles and yarn, so we were able to put together a nice box of items.

If your stash and supplies could use a little decluttering, Interim House would like to hear from you!

Tagged with: decluttering, donations, stash

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