Love Caps

 

First Baptist welcomes MIFA's Love Caps program!

In April 2009, MIFA’s Love Caps Program moved to First Baptist Church! Love Caps is still a MIFA program, but it will be operated by Pam Stokes at First Baptist. This program mobilizes creative volunteers to knit and crochet over 3,000 caps and lap robes each year to be distributed during the holidays to our neighbors in need of warmth and encouragement. Participants of all ages work at their own pace, either individually or in groups, without the burden of deadlines, quotas, dues, or required meetings.

Pam Stokes is the new Coordinator of the Love Caps Program. For more information, contact Linda Marks, MIFA’s Inter-Faith Coordinator, at 527-0208, ext. 218, or lmarks@mifa.org.

How it started

Founded in 1989 by a single knitter, MIFA's Love Caps program mobilizes creative volunteers to knit and crochet caps and lap robes for our neighbors in need of warmth and encouragement. Participants of all ages work at their own pace, either individually or in groups, without the burden of deadlines, quotas, dues or required meetings. Everyone is invited to attend events throughout the year and many choose to enter our annual Love Caps contest in the Mid-South Fair.

Program guidelines

We use only washable yarn for easy laundering.
We accept donations of all types of yarn throughout the year.
MIFA can supply basic patterns, or you may use your own patterns.
Lap robes may be made with any pattern and should measure approximately 36" x 36".
Caps may be donated to agencies other than MIFA. Please report the number of items to MIFA so we can add them to the annual total.
  • Finished items are accepted during the months of October, November, and December.
  • Turn in at the front desk at MIFA headquarters, 910 Vance at East St. or mail to MIFA Love Caps, P.O. Box 3130, Memphis, TN 38173
Download past issues of the Love Cap Lines:
Summer 2008

Fall 2008

January 2009

July 2009


Download Patterns for Crochet Cap, Knit Cap and Lap Robe

Contact Linda Marks at lmarks@mifa.org to join the Love Caps program or to start a group in your congregation, retirement community, school, or service organization.

Learn more about what we are doing at the MIFA Love Cap Blog.

  • Memphis was declared hunger capital of the U.S. in 2011

  • MIFA serves 55,000 individuals each year

  • 74% of children in MIFA's neighborhood live in poverty

  • 86% of every dollar donated goes directly to MIFA's programs

  • In the area MIFA serves, almost 30% of those over the age of 65 live alone

  • MIFA was founded in 1968

  • Memphis' unemployment rate has been close to 10% since 2009

  • MIFA's Ombudsman program's 2 staff and 60 volunteers serve over 7,000 residents of long term care facilities

  • Only 4.5% of residents in the 38126 ZIP code have college degrees

  • Emergency Services provided assistance for 25,000 people last year

  • In 2010 and 2011, 100% of COOL seniors graduated from high school

  • MIFA Meals on Wheels serves 1,800 seniors every weekday

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