Our Story

It all began on a very cold day in Dallas in December, 2013. Due to her anxiety, Christine had been knitting for awhile and had given scarves to everyone she knew, but there were still five scarves left. What would she do with them? Click on the link below to learn what happened next and how that day resulted in the birth of Spreading the Warmth in June 2014. From those five scarves, in its first ten years, over 10,000 handmade scarves have been distributed throughout the world.

In addition to this, Elaine Murphy in Genesee, Colorado, has been our field representative for ten years and has done a fabulous job working with various social service agencies that give our scarves to the homeless as acts of warmth and kindness.

Over

10,000

scarves donated through Spreading the Warmth

Over

350

people

have attended at least one Knit Night

Scarves have been distributed throughout the
United States and to

7 countries