In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re excited to welcome David Altman this Saturday at May’s Knit for Mental Fitness (OSH volunteer hat knitters).
David is a Professor at Willamette University and will discuss the relationship between fiber arts, knitting, crochet and mental health. This is such a worthy topic and one dear to our hearts. We hope you’ll join us!
(*Cost of admission = knit + donate a hat 😉).
Throughout 2025
February 15, 11:00am -1:00pm - Volunteer Knit Time
(Continues the 3rd Saturday of each month, same time)
We’re excited to share we’ve been invited to partner with the Oregon State Hospital in celebrating the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!
If you’re familiar with it, you know Jack Nicholson wore a knit beanie for most of the movie. Wild Knits has been asked to donate handknit hats throughout the year, with proceeds benefiting the Oregon State Hospital Museum, as well as a nonprofit mental health charity (yet to be determined).
Su Fennern of the Salem Knitting Guild has adapted a 1941 Red Cross pattern found here Watch Cap Pattern
We’re hoping to get future yarn donations, but for now stash is great. The only requirements are that the same pattern and worsted weight yarn must be used (unless you get gauge on a different weight). Color is your choice. Finished hats can be dropped off at Wild Knits. We still have a few details to fine-tune, but you’re welcome to start knitting and join us the 3rd Saturday of each month!
Dates: Wednesdays 11am - 1pm & Fridays 4pm - 6pm
Cost: None
Whether it’s knitting, crochet, or embroidery, you’re welcome to stop in during these times, make some progress on a project and get to know your Local Yarn Shop Community. This is a time set aside for what unites us, not what divides us.
ALL are welcome!
