Knitted Knockers Charities

Help raise awareness that knitted knockers are a light comfortable prosthetic alternative for women who have had a mastectomy. Organize, educate, support and encourage volunteers and groups to make and donate knitted knockers to Knitted Knockers Charities. Prepare, package and distribute free Knitted Knockers. Encourage groups to help women after breast cancer. Our HOPE is that Knitted Knockers can help women to regain their confidence and sense of self after a mastectomy

After hearing about Knitted Knockers from a customer, in the fall of 2010, Tempe Yarn started a two month community service project making Knitted Knockers for the Chandler Regional Cancer Center. Local knitters made about 100 Knitted Knockers and the shop gave them to the Cancer Center where they were given to patients for free. At the end of the two months, the shop started a new community service project. Then the Cancer Center called asking when they could get their next shipment of knitted knockers? In parallel customers continued to make them.

Fast forward to 2018, the Knitted Knockers effort has morphed into a worldwide program. Because of its growth, it separated from Tempe Yarn and became Knitted Knockers Charities a 501 (c) (3) public charity. A website was set up, www.KnittedKnockersUSA.org, to provide information to cancer survivors on how to get knitted knockers and to locate knitters who would make them.

Knitted Knockers Charities has collected from volunteer knitters across the USA over 12,000 knitted knockers and distributed them for free, to mastectomy patients in all 50 states. But beyond our efforts, there are now groups in Arizona (Bag & Boob Babes, Knocker Knitten Kittens, Saddle Brooke Knit Wits), Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin that are making, donating and/or distributing knitted knockers in their local areas.

It doesn't stop there, worldwide there are sister groups: Knitted Knockers UK, Knitted Knockers Australia, Knitted Knockers South Africa, Knitted Knockers Alberta, plus groups in Mexico, Germany and Finland.