For all of August 2020, I’ll be donating half of sales to Mainspring, an organization focused on equitable comprehensive services (food, clothing, restorative justice, and more) to meet the basic needs of residents within and beyond Portland, Oregon.

At the end of the month, I will total up all sales of patterns/ebooks/collections sold through ravelry, and I’ll donate half.

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
• $100 to End the Backlog in October 2019
• $205 to Doctors without Borders in November 2019
• $150 to Environmental Defense Fund in December 2019
• $70 to Oregon Food Bank in January 2020
• $245 to Southern Poverty Law Center in February 2020
• $357 to OutRight Action International in March 2020 (Operation Social Justice month)
• $70 to United Farm Workers in April 2020
• $90 to Hunger-Free Oregon in May 2020
• $125 to National Lawyers Guild in June-July 2020

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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