The Young Knitters of Oregon House

This isn't actually something you knit, it's something your donate your over-the-top stash to.

We have a wonderful fiber-addiction-enabler in Oregon House, who is teaching knitting to kids at the local library. The librarian assists her, they charge $1 per class for the lessons, and the class fees are donated to the library so they have money to buy books for the kids. How circular is that??

Marie is a wonderfully enthusiastic teacher, and we collect miscellaneous oddments of yarn for her to distribute to the young knitters. Sometimes they get super-lucky and there's enough for a sweater!

They are also in need of needles, both straights and circulars, and I imagine that they'd love any knitting notions you don't need anymore, too... cable needles, markers, measures, etc. Marie's husband is in town frequently because of their winery, and when he's here, he picks up what we have for them.

Fibers customers are the best, and have donated quite a lot of yarn and needles for them over the last year or so. If you decide that really are never going to use that acrylic yarn, or that the novelties you have bits and pieces of are not in line with your current interests, or if you decide you don't like those steel needles from the thrift store after all, just drop it off at Fibers and know that we'll find a good use it, making yet another generation of fiber addicts!

[Once in a while, we use the stash yarn in the store for projects like the Knit One, Save One preemie caps. When that's over for this year, all the yarn that's left will go to Oregon House.]