Current Needs

made with love, brochure and afghan images
Warm Up America! accepts 7"x 9" knit/crochet sections, finished afghans and accessories year-round. However, we often have specific needs that require help from our incredible volunteers. Visit this page for updated information on the best way you can help us spread warmth around the country.

Build-A-Bed

Warm Up America! needs 200 adult-size afghans (63" x 49") for Morehead State University's Build-A-Bed campaign. This organization builds beds for children in need in Eastern Kentucky. Warm Up America! provides the blankets for this event and we need your help to fulfill this need. Please send the finished afghans to the WUA! home office before March 31, 2019. Thank you for your support and spread the word!

https://www.moreheadstate.edu/Outreach/MSU-Corps/Build-A-Bed

Instructions: 

Please send the finished afghans to the WUA! home office before March 31, 2019. ATTN: Build-A-Bed

Address: 

Warm Up America!
Attn: Build-A-Bed
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

California Wildfires

With devastating fires raging in California’s Butte and LA counties, the loss of lives and property is unimaginable. WUA!’s office is contacting donation centers in those areas to provide blankets to families who have lost everything to the wildfires. Please consider helping WUA! by donating child and adult size blankets as part of our Neighbors Helping Neighbors campaign.

Address: 

Warm Up America!
Attn: CA Wildfires
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

Hurricane Florence

Warm Up America! would like to support those who have been impacted by Hurricane Florence. Working with local police departments, we plan to provide blankets to families as they finish cleaning up and begin the rebuilding process. Our goal is to assemble as many youth and adult afghans as possible and we need your help to realize this goal.

Address: 

Warm Up America!
Attn: Hurricane Florence
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

Made with Love 2019

Our Made with Love event is back for a 5th year. Warm Up America! will work with local volunteers to hang hats, scarves and gloves from trees and fences in homeless neighborhoods in January. Our goal is to collect 3,500 handmade hats, scarves, and gloves or mittens.

Instructions: 

Want to hold your own event?
You can also hold your own Made With Love event in your community. Click here to find out more information about how your can hold your own event. Please send your event date and any pictures to April Sorensen at april@warmupamerica.org

Address: 

Warm Up America!
Attn: Made With Love
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

Parkland Hospital

We are continuing our partnership with Parkland Hospital and need help collecting baby blanket donations (40" x 40").

Parkland also welcomes knitted or crocheted blankets, scarves and hats in all sizes for adult patients as well.

http://www.warmupamerica.org/parkland

Address: 

Warm Up America!
Attn: Parkland
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies™

Warm Up America! is again supporting the East African Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California San Francisco. Last year WUA! volunteers helped the organization create an amazing 17,000+ hats for newborns. The hats were so well received by new mothers and health workers in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, the University team is hoping to match last year’s hat total and expand the program to additional low- and middle-income countries. The deadline for sending hats for the Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies campaign is December 31, 2018. For more details about the initiative, and hat patterns, check out this special page at the website.

Address: 

Ship to WUA! offices:
Warm Up America!
ATTN: Tiny Hat Campaign
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

Address

Warm Up America!
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 152
Carrollton, TX 75007

For more information download our printable brochure.


Approximate number of sections  it takes to make a blanket

NOTE: If it is possible for you to make an entire afghan, it is not necessary to create individual sections. Any stitch is acceptable. Washable yarn recommended
Type of Afghan Number of Squares Complete Size
Baby 20 36" x 35"
Lap 25 45" x 35"
Child 36 54" x 42"
Adult 49 63" x 49"