January 20 Update: 

Thank you to everyone who knitted and donated baby hats and chemo caps at Knit Out. We are very grateful.

This year we received 152 baby hats this year,  a virtual rainbow of colors. The statistics by color: red hats (48), blue hats (22), green hats (22), yellow hats (19), brown hats (15), white hats (8), gray hats (8), orange hats (6), and purple hats (4). There are striped hats, solid hats, crocheted hats, knitted hats, gathered hats, lacy hats, fair isle hats, and, well, every imaginable hat. Here are some photos to illustrate.

Brookside Knits donates about 40 baby hats each month to the maternity ward at Pottstown Hospital.

Chemo caps are donated to the hospital as we receive them.  We try to find community groups in the Pottstown area to receive other donations.

January 10, 2019

Brookside Knits will once again collect charity donations at the upcoming Knit Out.

2019 Charity Hats

Over the past twelve months, we have donated some 40 baby hats a month to the Pottstown Hospital’s maternity ward. That comes to nearly 500 a year, and a good part of those hats are your donations brought to the Knit out.

We enjoy knitting and donating special hats for holidays. If you were a bird on our shoulder, you would find colors change monthly. In addition to the classic baby pinks, blues, and yellows, you would find lots of green for spring and even more green for football season. 

Red is plentiful for baseball season as well as Valentine’s Day and Christmas. Orange pumpkins are possibly the most popular fall hats, and blues join in for patriotic holidays.

Donated baby hats should be soft and washable. They should not have pompoms or buttons that might harm a baby. They should be sized for preemies (4″ across) or newborns (5″ across).

We also collect chemo caps and Knitted Knockers to be donated to the cancer center.

You will find a basket (or two) for your donations as you enter the lobby. Drop them off as you’re waiting to check in. Thank you for caring!