ALICE’S EMBRACE PARTNERS

Alice’s Embrace Partners is a fairly new concept - really just beginning in the Summer of 2024. Over the past several months, people from all around the country have reached out to Diane Lewis (Alice’s Embrace Founder) to let her know that they’re interested in continuing the work we’ve done for many years - bringing our gifts of hand knit and hand crocheted lap blankets and prayer shawls to deserving people in their own neighborhoods. These kindhearted and giving partners will work at their own pace and they might even recruit a few fellow knitters and crocheters in their own communities.

Looking at the map below, the states filled in with purple have people who have shown interest in becoming Alice’s Embrace Partners. We’re very excited to share the names of those people. If you click on the map, you will be directed to a PDF that shares their contact information. Maybe, just maybe, there might be like-minded Alice’s Embrace fans/contributors/coordinators/etc. near you.

Please remember, each person who has partnered with us will decide on their own, how much or how little they would like to do.

We ask for people who are partnering with us to use the Alice’s Embrace patterns. They’re tried and true and really quite lovely.

Please take a look at the Alice’s Embrace Partners Facebook page where our Partners and others will post special photos and stories on a regular basis.

Hospice Organizations: While Alice’s Embrace’s main goal has always been to provide our gifts to deserving folks in memory care communities, in 2020 (during the pandemic) we began providing them to patients of many local (and not so local) hospice groups. We will always provide our items to the residents of memory care communities, but we’ve also continued donating them to a few hospice organizations in the Sacramento, California area: UC Davis Hospice, Bristol Hospice, and Snowline Hospice. If you would like to help continue to bring warmth and comfort to patients from these three hospice groups, you can send your gifts of lap blankets and prayer shawls to Rita Martin in Galt, California. Please click on the map to see her mailing address and contact information.

The Alice’s Embrace Partners are only just beginning their magic, and we’re excited to see how this unfolds over the next months, years, decades. We can dream!