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Miggs Burroughs, Artist

 

Knits for NICU Babies

The Jack D. Weiler Hospital NICU – Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit - and Wakefield Hospital are accepting donations of hand knit and crotched baby blankets, hats and toys for newborns. Spearheaded by artist Ruth Marshall and the RAIN Boston Secor Senior Center, The Golden Ladies Crochet Group was started to create “Rainy Day Donations” to help families care for newborns in the NICU. For more information about the project, how to participate, or how to donate please see the links below.

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Delivery of Rainy Day Donations to Montefiore Wakefield and Weiler Campuses May 2021

 
 

Golden Ladies Crochet - Rainy Day Donations

Ruth Marshall is a local Bronx artist who has worked with the RAIN Boston Secor Senior Center for many years on several projects including the 2018 Montefiore Gallery in The Gardens exhibition Hanging Gardens. Early this year, Ruth and the Boston Secor Seniors embarked on a donation project to help babies at local hospitals in need. They started Rainy Day Donations to inspire knitting and crochet projects that could be made to help premies and families.

How to Participate and Donate Your Work

The group welcomes others to participate in this great project. The hospitals have requested:

Blankets:
Tightly stitched blankets so that babies eyes are protected from hospital lights. Blankets with more open stitches and also toys will be given to families as take home keepsakes. Advice for parents is not to have loose items such as toys, hats etc in cribs for newborn babies, therefore they are not put in hospital baby cribs.

For links to patterns please visit: https://ruthmarshall.com/2021/01/13/rain-boston-secor-crochet-group-donation-project/

Password: bostonsecor

How to Donate Materials

We are hoping to secure yarn donations of baby gauge yarn from local and national businesses. Any donations at all would be warmly received and we would gladly add your logo to any marketing or outreach regarding our project. To donate materials or funds, please contact Ruth Marshall at rmmarshall@icloud.com.