"Caps for Kids"

Yarn Store Customers Knit for Hospitalized Children

Customers at The Yarn Sellar in York, Maine have answered the call from hospitals in Lesotho, southern Africa to knit caps for infants to help them retain body warmth and give them a fighting chance to get better.  Read about us in the York newspaper!

It does snow in Africa! The tiny Kingdom of Lesotho, a mountainous country in southern Africa, asked for help for children who are born there face staggering challenges from the day they are born – poverty, malnutrition, sky-high HIV rates. Babies fortunate enough to be born in hospitals need hats to help them retain body heat all year long but especially in the cold and snowy winter.

The Yarn Sellar is providing customers with free baby cap patterns.  The store's employees, Martha and Margaret, are coordinating the collection of the completed caps and will send them to SHARED for forwarding to the hospitals in Lesotho. More than thirty skilled and generous customers have offered to knit at least one cap and the first batch of caps are ready to be sent! 

If you would like to knit caps or have a favorite local yarn store that will follow the lead of The Yarn Sellar, please contact SHARED for more details.  We are happy to promote your business and provide a flyer for your customers.

Can't knit?  Please make a donation to SHARED to support the work we do in Lesotho.

Thank you and a big thank you to the customers at The Yarn Sellar.