knit for food

Saturday, April 11th from 9am to 9pm

Join us and other local yarn shops to raise money for Knit For Food!

The Knit for Food Knit-a-thon is a 12-hour knitting marathon to raise funds for hunger and food insecurity. 100% of the money we raise is equally divided between Feeding America, World Central Kitchen, No Kid Hungry, and Meals on Wheels.

We have formed a team call Chicago LYS's & Friends in collaboration with Sister-Arts Studio, Firefly Fiber Arts Studio, and Knit 1. Click here for the link to our team's page!

How can you participate, you ask? There are several ways to contribute:

• Join our team and fundraise! Do this by going to our page Chicago LYS's & Friends, scroll down until you see the current list of team members, and click the link that says "join to fundraise." There you will create your own page as one of our team members, and you can use this to set your fundraising goal. Then join us for the Knit-a-Thon on Saturday, April 11th, any time between 9am to 9pm with your project, and stitch along with us.

• If you would love to Knit for Food but don't wish to fundraise as a team member, please make a small donation on behalf of our team here. This is Hilary's page and she will be knitting like crazy to represent our shop. Anyone who makes a small donation is invited to attend the Knit-a-Thon.

• Even if you can't make if to the Knit-a-Thon, we hope you will consider making a donation on behalf of our team here.

• You can help us represent and spread the word with some official Knit for Food merch! Please just note that merch doesn't raise funds.

There are events all over the country for this, in case you are not local to Chicago! See the complete list. We will be hosting the Knit-a-Thon at our shop on Saturday, April 11th, from 9am to 9pm. Please consider fundraising, or making a donation, then join us in whole or for part of the day. Feel free to bring your own food and beverages. Between 9am and noon, and then again between 6pm and 9pm, there will be some really great raffles. We hope you will join us for a day of community that benefits a great cause!