Knit for a Great Cause: Keep a Penguin Warm and Alive

Do you have leftover wool or acrylic in your stash? Looking to do some good, and feel good, with your needles? Ever what to say proudly: "I knitted a sweater for a penguin."?

Yes, I am wearing a sweater! Photo: The Penguin Foundation

Read this interesting article regarding penguins in Australia's Phillip Island. The Penguin Foundation has a Knits for Nature program in which they need volunteers to knit sweaters for penguins they find in nature that need rehabilitation from oil spills. To get inspired, they have a really cool 95 year old volunteer who has knitted over a 1,000 sweaters for their Knits for Nature program since the 1990s.

Australians call "sweaters" "jumpers" and the Penguin Foundation has a specific pattern that you can use. There isn't an urgent need at the moment but the Foundation always needs sweaters and will gladly take them throughout the world in case there is one.