Just a quick post to let you know that Craft Hope Project 6 is underway. The deadline is February 14, 2010.

Craft Hope is a collective crafting movement. The site sets up projects that anyone can make handcrafted gifts for. In the past year, they’ve sent dresses to little girls in Mexico, dolls to children in Nicaragua and quilts for homeless children in Michigan (among others). Each one of those projects were loving gifts, handcrafted in a unique, special way. I haven’t had the chance to jump in and join in all the craftgoodness, but this time I’m going to join Project 6. How timely it is—it’s a crochet (or knitting) project, and I had just written about the grandma who taught me how to crochet.

Project 6 will be in partnership with The Orphan Foundation’s Red Scarf Project.

The Orphan Foundation serves thousands of foster teens throughout the U.S. They provide college scholarships, connect them with mentors and internships, send them care packages, and testify for them before Congress. Each year 25,000 students ‘age out’ of the foster care system and the Orphan Foundation is committed to helping them become tomorrow’s successful citizens. They launched the Red Scarf program in 2005 to send red scarves to warm the hearts (and necks) of college-bound youth. They began taking these donations to include in their Valentines Day care packages.

I’m excited to work on my first project for a cause this year! I’ll keep you posted (and you can keep me accountable!) of my progress.