The Magic Yarn Project, which Holly set up with friend Bree Hitchcock, launched two months ago and sees the women weave wigs out of wool in the style of popular children’s fairytale characters to donate to young cancer patients.
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“The mission of The Magic Yarn Project is to create lovely and soft princess yarn wigs for little girls with cancer and to encourage and facilitate volunteerism by involving communities nationwide in this project”.
Observing how the wig made Lily happy, Christensen considered the possibility of making wigs on a larger scale and came up with the Magic Yarn Project.
Holly Christensen describes herself as “just a mother, wife, and nurse”, but her heartwarming community spirit is garnering national and global attention. She was overcome with joy.
Holly told Mirror Online: “Lily, the three-year-old daughter of a college friend of mine, first inspired this project and received the first wig”. They’re also embellished with gems, crocheted flowers and snowflakes, silk flowers and ribbons – just to make them extra pretty and princess-like. “I also knew that losing her long, curly blonde hair at not even 3 years old would be hard for her, so I figured that the yarn wig could help bring a little magic and fun to a hard time in her life”.
The Magic Yarn Project is in the process of becoming a non-profit – but in the meantime, they need more funding to purchase supplies to make more wigs. People of all ages volunteer in the project and Christensen and her team regularly receive heartwarming messages about the work they are doing.
It wasn’t long before others began reaching out to Holly with more yarn wig requests.
The team is now working on a variety of wigs, including those of Elsa and Anna, Ariel, Rapunzel, Jasmine, and Belle of Disney feature films. There was another family that asked for a similar wig for their child who had cancer.
Wigs are now given for free to their recipients in hospitals across the USA and are 100 per cent funded by donations, while the group estimate the cost of each wig to be $32 (£21).
Since the grassroots project is in its early stages, Christensen is relying on donations and volunteers to help make the wigs.
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A GoFundMe campaign for the project has raised more than $5,000 so far and wig-making volunteers have included female inmates at Alaska’s Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, who have learned to crochet the beanies that make up the base of the wigs.
