From 30 knitted hats in 2023 to 700 toy cars in 1986
Daisy Flemming, Head of House at Westgate, launched a knitting initiative to provide caps for newborns in area hospitals. The project served multiple hats and served as “an opportunity for the MIT community to come together, have fun knitting, and support the bigger community we are living in,” Daisy noted in her CSF application. Daisy recruited nine volunteers to knit over 30 hats for donation.
Over 35 years ago, the CSF supported a project just like the 2022 Knitting Hats for Infants group. In the late 1980s, fraternity brothers from Phi Delta Theta reached out to the CSF for similar support. Rather than warm knitted hats, the MIT students made over 700 wooden cars for children in area hospitals.
