Get together with your friends or favorite group and make scarves to donate to homeless teens and the sick and needy in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. No knitting experience required!

This past holiday season, a group of 30 knitters from Fair Haven created infinity and straight-fringed scarves for hundreds of children and adults served by Covenant House in Asbury Park (for homeless, runaway, and at-risk teens), the Center in Asbury (AIDS center and homeless shelter) and Mary's Place by the Sea in Ocean Grove (for women undergoing cancer treatment.)

(Photo courtesy of Marketing Rival)
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Now you're invited to join in knitting a scarf for those in need. Whether you're currently a knitter or not, you can learn and then create these scarves! Lisa Luckett, the founder of Cozmeena, says that when each scarf is wrapped around its new owner, they are told "You are safe, you are loved, and everything will be okay." Lisa says Cozmeena came out of the beauty and grace her kids and she received after the loss of her husband on 9/11.

If you are part of a service or civic group, Cozmeena can set you up to knit for Covenant House or any other organization you have in mind. This is a perfect project for Girl Scout troops and other youth organizations, too.

Cozmeena will act as the distribution arm for the 7 NJ Covenant House programs, and will move to more programs as the project expands. The organization will serve as a distribution center for knitters and knitting ministries helping them to organize and connect creators with people in need.

All knitters (never-before knitters and experts alike) are invited to create warm, loving scarves for those in need. CLICK HERE to purchase the initial kit for $24 (refills are $12) and begin knitting! Each scarf comes with an original, hand-made Cozmeena Pocket Heart button, making it an Original Cozmeena, and a signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity and a tag with space for a personal note from the knitter.

Included with the kit is an online tutorial that easily teaches knitters how to create these simple scarves. CLICK HERE for info on the tutorials that are perfect for individuals and groups who want to learn to knit and embrace Cozmeena's healing efforts.

What makes Cozmeena and its mission of giving so unique is the philosophy behind the knitting: the soothing meditation that comes from the tactile act of knitting, the positive energy of a community creating together, and the soul-filling goodness of giving something you've made by hand to someone you love who is hurting.

Lisa says that Cozmeena Knitting is a community knitting effort. "It's a new version of caring for yourself from the inside out. You're making yourself feel better, and filling your heart while caring for and personally connecting to another person."

For more info, CLICK HERE.

 

 

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