Knit a Woolly Welcome for a Refuweegee.
Wild Knits Glasgow Charity Fundraiser 2024
Make a difference with two needles and some yarn.
Refuweegee is helping forcefully-displaced people receive a warm welcome in Scotland.
Since 2015, they have distributed over 10,000 community-built Welcome Packs. In their free shop, they provide toiletries, clothing and toys to more than 150 people each week.
Find out more in 9min
In this video I’m telling you why I’m hosting this KAL, who gave me the idea and how YOU can help too!
What they do
Refuweegee enable the existing community to extend the warm welcome that Glasgow is renowned for. They do so by letting locals put together a Welcome Pack for each new arrival.
This is a tote bag or rucksack filled with some toiletries, snacks, a notebook and pen, a wee token of Scotland, a welcome letter, as well as a scarf, gloves and a warm hat.
Refuweegee also run a free shop where they have clothing, toiletries, household items, toys, and hopefully soon also some Refuweegee Hats.
The Refuweegee Hat -
a good deed times two.
All proceeds from the Refuweegee Hat pattern between October 2024 and March 2025* will go directly to Refuweegee. But our good deed doesn’t have to stop there.
During the official KAL everyone can knit a hat and donate it to one of the drop-off points (or send it in) and each hat will go into a welcome pack or to Refuweegee’s free shop - for a truly warm welcome.
*Wild Knits Glasgow is a one-woman show and I need to keep the admin for this at manageable level.
Must Knows for Hat Donations
Yarn choice
Use a machine-washable yarn, like a super wash, so it’s easier to care for
Knit in neutral colours, so anyone can wear it
Sizes
Refuweegee mostly need hats in adult sizes right now
Drop-off Points
You can drop off your finished hats (label with sizes please) at the following locations
- please check individual opening times:
Glasgow:
Bawn Textiles
613 Pollockshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2QG, UKEdinburgh:
Ginger Twist Studio
60 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5DP, UK
The hat.
Bawn Textiles & Wild Knits Glasgow
are hosting a free
KAL Kick Off event
Sunday, 13th October, 10am-12noon, Bawn Textiles
Come say hi, cast on your hat with us, and ask me any questions about the KAL
or pattern!
Tea, coffee and a sweet nibble will be provided.
About the pattern
2x2 rib hat with two brim options: single-folded in 2x2 rib (green sample), or double-folded in Stockinette stitch (beige sample)
Sizes: Baby, Child/Teen, Adult, XL Adult
DK/Worsted-weight yarn, 4mm needles
Written with beginners in mind: there’s a help video on YouTube for the decrease section, and the pattern is written with some extra explanations
