Knit a Hat for the Children of Mongolia

Keep their little heads warm! Send your knitting art and beauty to children and let them know someone cared enough to hand knit something just for them :)
Woman's knitted creations now going overseas
By Martin Snapp, Montclarion staff writer

THE COLDEST CAPITAL in the world is Ulan Baator, Mongolia, where the temperature gets down to 40 degrees below zero. It's so cold, homeless people sleep in the heating ducts below the city.
But Louise Owyang 82, a Montclair resident, is trying to help. On July 1, she shipped 127 knitted woolen hats to Mongolia. She knitted them all herself over the past eight months, and no two hats are alike.
"I'll look at the yarn I'm using and think, 'This color ought to go with that,'" she said. "Then I'll add colors and patterns as I go along. It's a little bit like art."

"From my earliest years, I remember her always having her hands occupied," said her niece, Carla Din. "She has an amazing ability to create something beautiful in no time."
"We call her 'The Crazy Knitting Lady,' said Carla's brother, Grant Din. "But always with great affection."
Owyang has been knitting since she was a little girl growing up in the Sacramento Delta during the Great Depression.

But two years ago, she started running out of people to give presents to, so she asked Carla Din to find her a worthy cause that could use knitted apparel.
After knitting 30 blankets for Afghanistan, she turned to knitting hats for Mongolia, under the auspices of a nonprofit called the Dulaan Project. "Dulaan" is Mongolian for "warmth."

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HOW TO HELP
Tax-deductible donations can be sent to the Dulaan Project, F.I.R.E., 107 North San Francisco St., Studio 4, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Knitters can get involved by visiting www.fireprojects.org/dulaan.htm