HomeGiving through Knitting

From our inception, Ft. Vancouver Knitters Guild has embraced the concept of giving through knitting with our service projects. Our Mission Statement confirms our purpose: to “serve the community through services and donations.”

Your contribution to Fort Vancouver Knitters Guild helps fund our Giving Through Knitting projects.

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A Note From Giving Through Knitting

We have three giving opportunities available at this time for you to knit - something for everyone!

First - is our traditional wash/dish cloth project that we do for the Food Bank along with our fabulous hat extravaganza. Last year we had well over 500 hats to donate to those who are struggling to make ends meet. Let's see if we can meet or beat that record number this year! Collection times and places will be announced ahead of our November 16 deadline. Don't forget you can rent the hat making machine for a nominal fee and make hats like hot cakes!!

Second - we will continue to make fingerless mitts for a medium to large men's size hand for the vets as well as scarves that are 6-8 inches wide and 60 inches long. We will deliver in time for Christmas and collection times and places will be announced ahead of our December 14th deadline.

Finally - A new project this year will be slippers/slipper socks for the sweet sisters at Our Lady of Peace Retreat. Any color is fine as long as they are muted. No neon or bright colors. Geri has patterns that we can pick up at the next Guild meeting or you can use a pattern of your own that you like. There will be a collection place and time announced before the December 14th deadline to get the slippers to the sisters before Christmas.

— Geri Baer and Sue Phelps

**Hat contributions from Lisa Quimby

Our Current Partners and Projects

Making winter wear for the Vancouver Food Pantry this past December 2023 was an incredibly successful project for our Guild. We donated over 500 caps, cowls and scarves and 50 Soap Sacks to Community Kitchen, a food pantry affiliated with Clark County Food Bank.

Every January, Fort Vancouver Knitters Guild members dedicate the month to making Soap Sacks for residents in need of hygeine products. Our effort in 2024 yielded 220 Soap Sacks which were donated to Vancouver's Open House Ministries.

Open House Ministries is a family shelter, housing 100-plus residents a night. More than half of those residents are homeless children. Inorporated in 1986, Open House Ministries has provided shelter, safety and hope to families in need. For more information, visit Open House Ministries website at https://sheltered.org.

Our Guild dedicates an entire month each year to creating these useful hygiene items which are delivered to our local foodbank. In 2023 our guild delivered 50 Soap Sacks to Community Kitchen and 250 soap sacks to Thrive to Survive.

Several years back, Fort Vancouver Knitters Guild became inspired by Stacy Weiner, founder of S.A.C.K. (Supporting ACommunity with Kindness), a grassroots endeavor connecting people world-wide to knit or crochet soap sacks. A fresh bar of soap is then placed in each sack and donated to agencies such as food pantries, homeless shelters and mobile shower sites.

For more information about the S.A.C.K., visit their website at https://soapsacks.com.