Knots of Love donates snuggly, soft, tiny blankets to Neonatal Intensive Care Units across the country. These hand-made gifts serve as a sign that each baby is loved and in the thoughts of caring people across the country.
Since 2013 we've been blessed to provide over 74,000 NICUÂ blankets to tiny babies in need!
The demand has never been greater and we need your help!
Fun story: One of our NICUÂ Blanket recipients' mother wrote us when she turned 13 years old. As preemie, she was in the NICU incubator, and she received a blanket from us and it supported her and her family 3 months and 4 days. Then, 13 years later, her mother reached out and let us know that she has joined our community of makers! From recipient to maker, a double blessing!!!
❤️ Parents sleep with the blankets before placing them on these precious new lives so their scent is on the blanket when it is then provided and lovingly placed onto the baby in the NICU incubator by a Nurse -- and the baby can receive both warm from the blanket and the parents even though they cannot yet be with her or him.
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❤️ By providing comfort to parents with babies in life-altering situations, often for months at a time.
❤️ Our blankets help make the experience a little less “clinical.” and a lot more LOVING when a total stranger provides a kind and loving gift to someone they will likely never know, just because, it is the kind and right thing to do.
❤️ By adding color and warmth to an often stark clinical feeling of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit -- it helps support the NICU nurses and all of the lives-on-the-line.
❤️ By providing a gift to cherish in the future. These treasures become a keepsake after the child is well and are sometimes put on display in shadow boxes or placed in a memory box.
Having been blessed to provide tens of thousands of beautiful and hand-knit and crochet NICU blankets to babies, we have learned a lot about what babies and their families need in order to make the difference we seek to make, so we have compiled this information to help you help others.
When making your tiny soft blankets, please:‍
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✅ Ensure the blanket is no smaller than 30” x 24”
(no larger than 34" x 28").âś… Use yarns on our
Required Yarn List to knit or crochet a blanket. Â
âś… Remember, these tiny preemie babies that sometimes weigh only 1lb will be wrapped in your blankets.
âś… Please do not use a lacy pattern (or patterns with holes)Â because tiny baby fingers, toes, and tubes can get caught in blankets with holes.
âś… Be sure to
follow our guidelines and fill out a submission form when you send your lovingly made creation(s) -- this is very important. :)
âś… Note: We DOÂ ACCEPT preemie beanies! YAY!!! :)
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