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What is Warm Up America! (WUA!)

Welcome to Warm Up America! the charity that has warmed peoples' lives since 1991. It started in a small Wisconsin town with neighbors knitting and crocheting afghans for neighbors in need. Thanks to the creativity of founder Evie Rosen who came up with the idea of having volunteers knit or crochet small sections and then others join them together, the idea quickly caught on. Today Warm Up America distributes warm afghans, caps and other items to tens of thousands of people, thanks to the generosity of knitters and crocheters around the country.

Share the Warmth

For my first Share the Warmth column, I am delighted to tell you about my recent visit to El Salvador to help distribute newborn caps donated by many of you to the Warm Up America!/Save the Children Knit One Save One program, as well as to share photos from a visit to Stitches East in Hartford, CT. But this column is also about you, the volunteers that make Warm Up America a reality. That's why I'm pleased to share an update that I received from Julia Kellejian, WUA Coordinator at Craig Memorial Church in Paradise, CA. Whether you've made one section or a dozen afghans for Warm Up America, I want to hear from you. Let me know your personal experiences in cfreating and giving these essential blankets. Have you found an interesting stitch pattern or tips on joining sections together? We'd love photos too. Please e-mail them to my attention, and thanks.
Mary Colucci, Director
Warm Up America
maryc@warmupamerica.org

Share & Care Cafe at Stitches East

In between classes and buying yarn, visitors to Stitches East market in Hartford, CT, helped assemble afghans at the Warm Up America booth. Read more.

Knit One Save One:

Warming babies and saving lives

Cap

Volunteers' responses to Save the Children's and Warm Up America's pleas to stitch caps for newborns were enthusiastic. More than 100,000 caps were donated and then distributed through Save the Children facilities in developing countries. Warm Up America's director Mary Colucci shares her experiences helping to distribute the caps in El Salvador. Read more.

Craig Memorial Congregational Church:

Third Year and Going Gangbusters!

Craig Memorial WUA group

There are many amazing groups who devote many hours and days to warm up people in their communities. The Warm Up America group at Craig Memorial is just such a group. Guess how many afghans they have donated in the past three years! Read more.

Friendship Shawl

Knit, Crochet, Give, Share

Warm Up America foundation

Warm Up America foundation