In case you missed it, I announced Kitchen Sink Dyeworks’ first yarn club last week!  It’s extra-special to me, because I’m using the club as a way to help women who work hard to help their communities and the world at large through organizations that provide services to their community, raise money for medical research, and other activist works.  Each month (Sept-Nov), a Badass Woman who is working hard on these community projects will be featured, and her namesake yarn will be shipped out to club members.  The ass-kicking ladies will get 10% of the month’s club proceeds to donate to the projects, action, or organization of her choice.

When I started KSD (and later Piebird Design), I had plans of doing more yarns and projects that would help people and organizations that make the world better, and in the last year, while I’ve done things like the CIC sock class, I feel like I’ve gotten away from my path a bit.  Now I’m trying to focus in on those goals again, and the yarn club is definitely the beginning of a trend around here. I’m working on a new fundraising colorway project, and am putting the final details on a kit to help a friend’s fundraising goals, as well as a new two-color brioche rib pattern to benefit the Red Cross.

One of the things I wanted to come from all this crafty activism, besides the benefit that I can provide with yarn, and patterns, and projects, is to get together with other motivated folks and work on projects that are even bigger in scope.  I’d love to learn more about your goals, your projects, and what organizations are near and dear to your heart; to educate each other and the crafty community about what’s happening that’s making a difference in our communities.

So if you have any ideas (even a glimmer of a notion) that you’d like to talk about for projects, organizations, events, drop me a line!  I’d love to talk about it, and maybe we can organize something amazing!

Want to sign up for the Badass Women’s Yarn Club? Click here for more information on the KSD site.