project linus blanket

I might have mentioned that we started a charity knitting group in my town. We meet at least once a month, often for happy hour, and knit/crochet/craft for one of the many charities that will accept such donations. Here's a few we've done so far:

Project Linus
Mother Bear Project
Knitted Knockers
Knit Aid

And future goals:
Alice's Embrace
Red Scarf Project
... and probably more knitted knockers. those are the most popular project so far...

To my surprise, many people have shown up to knit/crochet/craft with us. While it is great to knit for charity, I've also found friends in town and learned more about knitting from them... If you've ever thought about starting something like that for yourself, I recommend it strongly. No regrets.

For Project Linus, we knit blankets at least 36" x 36". Mine came in at 37" x 37". It is a slightly modified Colorful Wedges blanket, the pattern by Purl Soho.

You can find more notes on it at Ravelry, but I basically switched colors/wedges early to get the smaller ones. Each following wedge is 2 rows longer, until I got the right length. I'd like to say that this design mod was intentional, but really I had much less red/pink yarn, than I did the later colors.

All together, our group created 10 blankets. I'm so in awe of these people!

If you'd like to learn more about our knitting for charity group, you can subscribe to our newsletter here or search "Livermore Knitting for Good" on Facebook and request to join our squad. All are welcome!