ABC radio (Australia) is running a drop in stitches challenge, so if you have some spare yarn, you can donate that. And if you also have some spare time, you can knit that yarn into a simple square.

Your yarn and squares will be used to create wraps, which will go out to needy people the world over, via the organisation Wrap With Love.

Squares need to be 25cm x 25cm (10″ x 10″) and knitted in 8ply yarn with size 8 (4mm) knitting needles - it’s the equivalent of casting on approximately 45-50 stitches. Any stitch can be used except stocking stitch.

Donations by Friday 13 July. After this date your donations will be shipped to Sydney and displayed, by region, at the ABC’s headquarters, before we deliver them to Wrap With Love for completion and distribution around the world.

Help us topple our 2006 New South Wales tally of 2474 wraps (each containing 28 squares), 33,224 squares and more than 150kg of yarn. That’s 102,496 squares or the equivalent of 3660 wraps - a more than 100 per cent increase on donations received in 2005!

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