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MERCER ISLAND, WA (March 31, 2009) – If you love knitting, but don\u2019t have enough relatives to give your hats, sweaters and blankets to, why not start a ministry?
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\n\u201cLoving Heart and Hands\u2026for His Little Lambs\u201d of Mercer Island Covenant Church<\/a> is a group of passionate knitters who donate warm clothes they have fashioned to people who are in need.<\/p>\n

Sallie Tuttle got the idea for the ministry in January 2008 while recovering from knee surgery. She searched the Internet for ideas and came across Warmwoolies.org, a non-profit organization that sends warm clothes to orphanages located in poor and cold areas of the world, such as Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Volunteers sign up on their website and the organization sends them free yarn. The finished clothes are returned within three months and then shipped to wherever there\u2019s a need.<\/p>\n

Tuttle decided to adapt the concept and started calling yarn companies for donations. Two companies wanted to help. Nebraska-based Brown Sheep Wool sends 25 free skeins of yarn every six months, and \u201ccharity-minded Cascade Yarns in Tukwila, Washington, gives us wonderful wholesale discounts,\u201d says Tuttle.<\/p>\n

Loving Hearts and Hands\u2026 meets the last Monday of every month at the church to knit, support and encourage each other. At the start, they were about 20-30 people, now it\u2019s down to 10-15. But Tuttle is not discouraged. \u201cThe ladies are so enthusiastic,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Last September, the group sent a large shipment of 100 articles to an organization in Moscow that helps orphaned young women who have \u201cgotten into the wrong parts in life,\u201d such as drugs and crimes, Tuttle explains. Many of them are young mothers.<\/p>\n

However, the expensive shipment to Russia almost depleted Loving Hearts and Hands\u2019 funds, so Tuttle is looking for U.S. orphanages that might need the clothes. \u201cI don\u2019t want this mission to stop,\u201d says Tuttle.<\/p>\n

The group also is considering new ways to raise funds, including auctioning surplus sweaters or arranging a knitting seminar for adults and children.<\/p>\n

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