Knitting is fun - knitting together is even more fun. That's why I love Knit Alongs. You admire what others are knitting, you make progress together, and then you browse the finished works. That's why I want to join a great community event and crochet or knit for a good cause with everyone who wants to. Are you with me?

Under the patronage of Sarah Wiener, DaWanda has teamed up with Lana Grossa, GU and Für Sie to launch the charity project "Masche für Masche" for the aid organization terre des hommes. A Charity Knit/Crochet Along, so to speak, in which our knitted and crocheted works are sold at the end on DaWanda and at many different Christmas markets for the benefit of two terre des hommes projects.

100% of the proceeds will go to the refugee children and the Sumangali project. I tell more about both projects below. We donate our crochet or knitting time, how great is that?

The goal is to reach 7000 knitted or crocheted pieces in the next 55 days. In doing so, you can choose between 10 different projects (pattern) or choose your own model, raid your yarn stash for it and of course either knit or crochet. The good thing is that these knits are all knitted or crocheted with relatively large needles. So they go nice and fast and are partly even finished in one evening!

 

Participation is very simple: (1) You choose one of the 10 pattern (knit or crochet) on the project page at DaWanda, or simply choose your own favorite pattern. Among them are quick, easy hats, scarves and loops and a few accessories, with large needles! So goes really fast and is probably perfect to finally reduce his yarn supplies a little.

(2) Then send the finished crocheted and knitted pieces to DaWanda in Berlin (or bring them to one of the selected wool stores) by November 2. There, everything else including sales etc. will be taken care of.

The proceeds of all sales will then go entirely to the following two terre des hommes projects:

Help for refugee children - last year, about 10,000 (!) refugee minors arrived in Germany without their parents. They flee for a variety of reasons. Terre des hommes has set itself the goal of sustainably improving the care situation for unaccompanied minors and creating a broad-based training and counseling program. But terre des hommes also supports refugee children abroad in a variety of ways and strengthens children in war and crisis zones with its programs.

Sumangali project - The aim here is to free young women from slavery and implement labor rights for all in Tirupur in southern India, one of the largest textile locations in the world. Many of the young girls and women there are able to go back to school or have started vocational training thanks to the sustainable support of terre des hommes.

I think both projects are worthy of my support and recommend you to inform yourself on the pages of terre des hommes. Then grab your needles, get some yarn or raid your stash, pick one of the ten tutorials and knit a piece!

Do you feel like it?

Then quickly here along to the action page of DaWanda and browse through the tutorials!