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June Auld holds a basket of toques she knitted for needy children. The Guelph woman is one of many who knit items for charities, nursing homes, schools, hospitals and developing countries.Photo by Greg Layson

by Joanne Shuttleworth

GUELPH — When all your friends have a handmade blanket, all the kids have Christmas sweaters and all the grandkids have booties and hats, for whom does the knitter knit?

A growing number of hand crafters are knitting for charities, supplying nursing homes, schools, hospitals and developing countries with cosy comfort and warmth.

So it was for June Auld, 74, who had pretty much exhausted her list of gift recipients.

“I did afghans for all my grandchildren and my honorary grandchildren too,” the Guelph woman said. “I was looking for something else to do. When I heard there was a need I could fill, I got busy.”

In each of 2007 and 2008, Auld crocheted 100 child-sized hats for the Rotary Club of Guelph South, which transported the hats to Nogales, Mexico for Rotary’s shoebox project. In 2009 she set a personal record of 250 hats.....

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