Join the Warm for Winter Project!

Gather your family and friends together to make a difference! Children, women and men in need of affordable housing wait in lines every day for food and assistance. You can help to keep the chill away and brighten a homeless individual’s day by knitting or crocheting hats and scarves --or make them from fleece!

Help us to meet our goal of collecting 1000 handmade hats and scarves through October at Pacific Fabrics Stores and or call Janice in October and find where you might like to deliver your gifts yourself before Thanksgiving. This year the Oct/Nov 2010 collection locations will be at Houses of Worship where a Blessing of the Hats and Scarves may also be held. Ask your congregation if they are participating. Janice will be out of town no e-mail / no phone in November this 2010 season.

1000 represents the number of low income affordable housing units needed to be created each year to successfully tackle homelessness in King County alone.

To participate in the Thanksgiving campaign, please contact warmforwinter@yahoo.com. Collection baskets will be at various locations, so be sure to inquire about your nearest location. Pacific Fabrics stores will also be collecting during October this year again—see http://pacificfabrics.com. 

Success Stories!

• Thanksgiving 2006
  1,660 handmade hats and scarves were delivered to 30 homeless service providers in the Seattle area.
• Thanksgiving 2007/early 2008 
  Warm for Winter/Pacific Fabrics collaborative efforts gifted over 5,000 handmade hats and scarves to four counties in the Puget Sound.
• Thanksgiving 2008
  Warm for Winter/Pacific Fabrics combined efforts gifted over 6,000 handmade hats and scarves to four counties in the Puget Sound
• Thanksgiving 2009
  Warm for Winter/Pacific Fabrics combined efforts gifted over 7,000 handmade hats and scarves to four counties in the Puget Sound. Over 19,000 gifted to date!