Knitting Programs
Knitting in Hospitals
Project Knitwell volunteers teach patients and family members to knit, individually or in a group. We work in various units throughout hospitals and provide knitting instruction for oncology, transplant, and dialysis patients, families with children in the Pediatric Intensive Care and Neo-Natal Intensive Care units, and pregnant moms on bedrest, among others. We provide participants with a complimentary beginner’s kit, which includes yarn, needles, and a Knitting Resource Guide. We offer ongoing instruction, and once knitters are comfortable with basic skills, we give them knitting kits and additional material to make simple projects like hats, scarves, baby booties,
We also serve hospital staff and have offered learn-to-knit classes for a variety of staff members and new graduate nurses at
Community Knitting Programs
We serve adolescents, seniors, cancer patients and others at various school and community sites. Currently, groups and classes meet at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, the Cancer Resource Center at Virginia Hospital Center, N Street Village, So Others Might Eat (SOME), and other sites. We have offered after-school programs for at-risk youth through The Alternative House in Vienna, Virginia; for adolescents with severe emotional disabilities at The John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Rockville, Maryland; and at Camp Friendship and Camp Fantastic, two summer camps for children/young adults with cancer.
At-Home Classes
For persons unable to attend a class, contact us to discuss a home visit.
Project Knitwell’s Program Sites
*Indicates a current location
*Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Hospital-wide – including pediatric oncology unit, transplant unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sessions for staff
Inova Alexandria Hospital – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Inova Mt. Vernon Hospital – Patients and family members
*Inova Children’s Hospital – Piloted program in NICU in 2017; Programming in Ronald McDonald Room begins Fall 2018
*Children’s National Medical Center – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hematology/Oncology, Cardiac Intensive Care, Dialysis, Ronald McDonald Room, Classes for NICU staff
*Virginia Hospital Center – Antepartum patients, NICU families, In-patient oncology, ongoing and special programs through Cancer Resource Center, Classes for staff
HSC Pediatric Center, (formerly Hospital for Sick Children) – Regular group with parents
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