Like everyone, the earthquake in Haiti has consumed much of my thoughts this week, so I want to devote my weekly roundup to all the amazing crafty people helping out so much - there aren't many pictures to go with the links, but there are some quality links for sure!



My buddy Susan has been keeping an updated list going of awesome indie sellers in our craft community who are donating proceeds to help Haiti, including some local Portland, OR shops if you live in our neck of the woods.



Sfgirlbybay has a similar list, with more links in the comments - so many indie shops are helping! (above photo from sfgirlbybay)

Etsy's forums have a massive thread of shop links - there's a long list here and 25 pages of various links and "Handmade for Haiti" info... it really is incredible how enormous the craft community's response has been.



Indie Fixx has organized a huge Haiti Relief Fundraiser with silent auction items donated by tons of awesome crafters.  Follow the blog to see each day's auction items - day 2 went up today.



So those are all excellent ways to donate by buying something fabulous - for a craft-related way to donate directly, check out Yarn Harlot's Knit-Signal post, and Knitters Without Borders page.  Basically, if you are a knitter (or crafter, or anyone else living in comfort), think about what you spend on things like yarn, craft supplies, eating out, and anything else you don't need to survive, in a week.  Don't buy those things for the week, and instead donate that money to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders - then let Yarn Harlot know what you donated and she can add it to the running total.  Between her Knit-Signal post and the update post 2 days later, around ,000 were donated - knitters rock!!

If you are on ravelry and are lazy, stupid, and/or godless, you can join up with the 5100 members in the LSG group and help them reach their ,000 donation goal - as I'm writing this, they're already at ,786!



For a real-life (non-internet) way to help out, see if your city is on this list of Post Punk Kitchen's Vegan Bake Sales for Haiti!



Betsy Greer, of Craftivism and the book Knitting for Good, wrote a thoughtful post on the subject with some general (non-craft-related) links for helping.

And for some more general helping links, CNN has a nice list of specific organizations that are doing good and could use donations.

It's so easy to get into our projects and lives and ignore what's happening in the world, but I think this horrific disaster got us to reflect on how lucky we are - I think our community is really making a difference with everyone doing what they can, so hopefully this roundup showed you some ways you'd like to help out too!

Of course, post more links in the comments if there are good sites/posts that I missed!