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• Penny in Polk City, FL wrote...Over 30 years ago I knitted bandages with my grandmother who started making them because of a women's group at her church.  The group stopped making them but my grandmother continued to make them on her own.  She was a hair stylist and had her own shop.  Her customers would donate cash to pay for the thread and mailing costs.  I am now interested in starting to make the bandages again.
• Pamela from Springfield, OH wrote...I was so thrilled when I saw the bandage photo in the article Knitting for a Cause in Mary Jane's Farm!  Years ago - at least 30- Mother asked me to knit bandages like these for leprosy patients.  Mother did not knit and decided that I could make her quota for her Ladies Guild.  I have one bandage put away that has been waiting for a home for perhaps twenty years.  They are easy to make and are great conversation starters.  No one can figure out what you are making without asking.  I had an airline cabin attendant ask about the bandage because she had time to knit.  I couldn't give her the answer to how and where then but now I could.  So could you!
• Pat from Emmaus, PA wrote... Thank you for your kind words.  I knit every day as knitting is my passion.  Am also very involved with prayer shawl ministry at my church.  Will continue to work on bandages also.
• Ruth wrote... I can hardly believe people are still knitting bandages.  I'm 72 years old, and I was doing this in the '50s in high school.  Then, we knit them 30 stitches wide and 100 inches long, so 48 inches now is a snap!  I like doing them;  it's sort of meditative knitting, just going back and forth, easy to keep in a purse, and it's helping someone else.  Win - win!  Bless you for doing this.
• Diana wrote... How excited I was to find your website!!!  About 15 years ago I made a few of these bandages for a youth activity, before I really knew how to crochet...then again about 8 years ago as an adult for a church humanitarian project (we are LDS).  I recently was given a huge lot of yarns...but saw that our church was no longer asking for them specifically...so I took to Google to try and find a charity that might still be using them, and I found you!!!  I loved making these years ago and am so excited to find someone that is actively taking donations!!
• Jean in Alamont, IL wrote...This is how I learned to knit at my mother's knee almost 60 years ago.  Those bandages went to the Hawaiian Island of Molakai.
• Nancy in Craig, CO wrote...I was really thrilled to see that this good cause is still going on.  As a young girl, a group in the church I grew up in was doing this and I tried to do my share of knitting the bandages even back then.
• Lara in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada wrote...These bandages were crocheted with the hopes of putting a smile on someone's face and making their life a little better.
• Elinor in Virginia Beach,VA wrote...THANK YOU - this is such a good thing to do to keep busy -- and help folks around the world at the same time.  Thank you for your help with this!!  More later -- Happy New Year -- and God Bless us all !!!