Lovelyarns Returns With ‘500 Hat Project,’ Offering Free Winter Hats To Those In Need

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The temperatures are dropping extracurricular and it’s astir clip to interruption retired that wintertime gear, and 1 section concern proprietor is making definite everyone has a accidental to enactment lukewarm with a handmade knit hat.

Lovelyarns successful Hampden is backmost with its “500 Hat Project,” which collects knit and crocheted hats to beryllium fixed distant escaped of complaint to those successful need.

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“It feels bully to springiness thing back, and conscionable to cognize that you’re helping idiosyncratic out,” said Melissa Salzman, the proprietor of Lovelyarns

Salzman inherited the task from erstwhile she took implicit Lovelyarns.

“It’s specified a fun, fantastic happening to bash to person an immediate, affirmative interaction connected our Baltimore community,” explained Salzman.

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The task has been increasing successful popularity, with hats coming successful from arsenic acold distant arsenic California.

Last year, Salzman collected much than 2,000 hats and hopes to bring successful much this year.

“Maybe we tin bash 3,000 hats, I’ll person to alteration the sanction of the project,” said Salzman

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The store collects hats year-round but present is the crunch time. If you would similar to donate a hat, sojourn their website for much information, including a escaped chapeau template.

Sean Streicher