Crochet, Knit, Sew

Do you crochet, knit, or sew? Many organizations and individuals on Pine Ridge Reservation would love to receive your hand-crafted items. You’ll find free patterns for many items here, but feel free to make whatever you love working on – everything you can think of to craft is certainly needed! Visit our FoPRR Pinterest board for more ideas.

If you belong to a group that quilts, crochets, knits or sews for charity (or if you are an individual who does so) and you would like to work on some projects for Pine Ridge please contact me for suggestions as to what is needed.

Click here for some suggestions on where to send your hand-crafted donations.

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The following organizations can use your donation of hand-crafted items.

Click the links for information about the organization and its shipping address.  For all of these organizations, no premie sized items are needed and for donations to Pine Ridge Reservation, please do not send anything that depicts owls as they are a symbol of death in the Lakota culture.  For donations to the Navajo Nation via Little Singer Community School, again, for cultural reasons, no owls, snakes, or coyotes.

Wounded Knee District School – this school maintains a Clothes Closet for its students and their families.  They can use new (especially socks and undies) and/or gently used clothing sized for infants to elders and also welcome sewn/quilted/knitted/crocheted items such as sleepwear, quilts, afghans, lapghans, baby/toddler items, pillowcases, sheets (bed, crib, Pack ‘n Play sized), toys, dishcloths, etc.

Little Singer Community School – this school on the Navajo Nation needs sewn and/or knitted or crocheted seasonally appropriate clothing for babies, toddlers (layette items, baby blankets of all sizes), elementary school-age children and elders.

Oyate Teca Project – needs anything appropriate for adults (especially men) and children of all ages (*Please include a note if you want your donation given to an elder.)

OST Child Protection Services – needs sewn and/or knitted or crocheted seasonally appropriate clothing and toys for foster care children of all ages, with a special need for tote bags/duffel bags/drawstring bags in which the kids can carry their possessions instead of using trash bags. They also have a need for baby and toddler items but no preemie sizes, please.

Please Note: Due to the volume of donations shipped to the reservation FoPRR cannot verify delivery of your boxes. If you require confirmation of delivery, please purchase delivery confirmation from the post office or use your shipping service’s tracking system.

Please do not use Styrofoam packing material. New, large-size trash bags and flattened rolls of toilet paper serve well as padding and are helpful to our Friends on the rez.