Knitting & Crocheting Books *HAWAIIAN Leis (crocheting, ribbons
and more) *Knitting purses *Knitting for the plus size
woman *Jewish crocheting *Knitting Shawls, ponchos etc *Unusual
knitting and crocheting and more
Links to Businesses with crafts, music, educational or fun
things.
Stores and Sites that you may find interesting:
S & S Worldwide Great for Arts & Crafts. Great for preschools,
camps, sports programs, and elementary schools. Has Jewish crafts too. They also sell school
supplies, party and sports supplies. Sign up for their Fun & Learning Monthly
Newsletter Get great craft tips plus extra savings codes!
Welcome to Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages' Charity Projects Pages.
The purpose
of this page is to organize my craft links and crafts that would make great
Charity/Tzedakah projects for schools, scouts, Churches, Temples and more.
Also I will feature some sites that sell products that have Tzedakah as part
of their business plan. i.e. they donate in a planned way to charity
projects.
Bernat yarn company's new newsletter and
site to bring people that want to volunteer with charities that need volunteers.
They even have free patterns for use in your charity projects. They include
knitting and crocheting patterns for baby projects, afgans and even some for
fundraising for charities.
Afgans for Afgans is looking for hats, gloves, socks, blankets
etc that are hand knit or crocheted in wool or wool blends that are mostly wool.
(warmth) They are getting ready a container to be shipped begining of March 2010
for NEXT winter. (Slow boat).
Join the Hollywood stars and knit or crochet a hat to help save
children all over the world from hypothermia. Part of their Survive to 5 (age
5) Campaign. Use Free patterns from links on my site from many sources including the
preemie hats from Bernat yarns.
Lisa Edelstein Star of the TV Show House
Caps for Warmth or Chemo
Bevs Country
Cottage Chemo cap patterns and suggestions. Incredible resource for caps
for chemo or for brain surgery.
Prayer
Shawl Ministries are all of the world. People knit shawls and give or donate to
friends or a charity. The idea behind it is to give something of theirselves
that are warm and comforting to people in need or sick. Their are free patterns
on the net or you can buy books. See my list of books for knitting and
crocheting shawls at my store from Amazon.com.
Shawlministry.com The main site for the prayer
shawl ministry. Has prayers and patterns.
Crochet a Scarf for the Special
Olympians. Although this was for 2009 Special Olympics Winter Game. Watch to
see if you can still participate this year. Any
pattern but you have to use Coats and Clarks Red Heart Super Saver Yarn (Coats
and Clark are the sponsors) in both
delft blue and white, the official colors of the games.
Build vocabulary and they will
donate rice to the needy all over the world. If you choose the option for the
game to remember your score, it will. Lots of levels for all ages. Great even
for SAT/ACT prep!
Stores or Charities
Starbucks Love
Project 156 countries all singing "all you need is love" at the same time all
over the world
Add your
voice and help raise funds for Aids. Record yourself
singing and Starbucks will
donate 5 cents up to 1 million submissions!
OLPC Laptop.org. There
buy one give one program just ended but there are lots of ways to give laptops
to schools and needly people all over the world.
For every pair
purchased, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need.
Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages, Formerly called Eileen's Camp Crafts and Other Fun Things is sponsored by: CHADIS CRAFTS AND KIPPOT http://www.chadiscrafts.com/
The site that Eileen offers for sale :
Beaded and Charm Jewelry: Pins, Earrings, Hat Pins, Bracelets, Men's Jewelry and
more! Big Hole beads on metal, rubber and leather bracelets
and chains.
Chadiscrafts.com and Chadiscrafts.com/fun/ are dedicated to
the memory of my father, Max Chadis. From whom, my love of the Arts and my art
talent came from. I see his talent in my sons. Both are students at
Maryland Institute College of Art. I hope with these
lessons to pass his love of the arts on to
others.