Lee Meredith

For all of October 2019, I’ll be donating half of sales to End the Backlog, shining a light on the backlog of untested rape kits throughout the US, aiming to end this injustice by conducting groundbreaking research identifying the extent of the nation’s backlog and best practices for eliminating it, advocating for comprehensive rape kit reform legislation and policies at the local, state, and federal levels, and more.

At the end of the month, I will total up all sales of patterns/ebooks/collections sold through ravelry, and I’ll donate half (I’ll take paypal/ravelry fees out of the half I’m keeping, so $3 will be donated from a $6 pattern, and I usually round up a bit.)

Since I started monthly donations, you’ve helped me give:

• $200 to RAICES in December 2018
• $125 to IRUSA’s Middle East Humanitarian Aid fund in January 2019
• $655 to Black Lives Matter in February 2019 (100% donated for my bday weekend)
• $100 to Outside In in March 2019
• $135 to UNICEF in April-May 2019
• $65 to Sylvia Rivera Law Project in June 2019
• $90 to KIND (Kids in Need of Defense) in July 2019
• $70 to Evidence Action in August 2019
• $135 to Unite Oregon in September 2019

Donations will continue for the foreseeable future, and I’ll usually rotate each month between something national, international, and local to Oregon/Portland, unless there’s a crisis somewhere that needs extra help. Let me know if there’s an org you’d like me to give to!

As a lifelong fan of games, puzzles, and art, I bring my point of view to my knit designs, often using unusual constructions, and/or giving the knitter fun options to choose from, and always trying to bring new things into the knitting world and onto your needles!

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