The Magic Yarn Project's Rapunzel wig. Photo / Go Fund Me, Holly Christensen
The Magic Yarn Project's Rapunzel wig. Photo / Go Fund Me, Holly Christensen
A woman has created a 'magical' way to help brave child cancer battlers who undergo chemotherapy treatment.
The Magic Yarn Project was started by Alaskan woman Holly Christensen after a friend's daughter was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Christensen, a former oncology nurse and mother, knitted a wig for Lily who beganher battle with cancer at the age of two.
"I knew she would be going through a difficult time, and that no one would be able to take her suffering away," Christensen told parenting website Babble.
"I also knew that losing her long, curly blonde hair at not even three-years-old would be difficult for her, so I figured that the yarn wig could help bring a little magic and fun to a difficult time in her life."
So Magic Yarn volunteers crochet "extra-soft 'baby' yarn into beanies, and then transform them into storybook hairstyles".
The wigs have become hugely popular, as Christensen notes "a greater need for our sparkle than we first anticipated" with a quarter of their wigs snapped up in just a day.
They are free to cancer sufferers but the page asks for donations to fund production and shipping.
