an act of love

Every stitch is an act of love.

Your gift helps ensure that no family faces the hardest moments of their lives without something beautiful, intentional, and made just for their baby.

Why We Exist

A gap no family should have to discover alone

When a baby arrives too soon, or carries a diagnosis like trisomy 18, parents are often left navigating grief, uncertainty, and impossible decisions — including something as simple as what their baby will wear.

The sizing does not exist in stores. The energy to search does not exist in the fog of anticipatory grief. We make the Theodore Set by hand, one stitch at a time, and donate it directly to hospital partners so families never have to figure this part out alone.

Your donation funds the yarn, the materials, and the operations that get each set into the hands of a family who needs it.

He was here, and he was dressed with love. His life is why this exists.

Theodore the Tiny • Born August 24, 2025 • Two pounds

Make a Gift

Give a Theodore Set

Every gift, of any size, is fully put to work.

The Extra Stitch is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law, and every gift is fully put to work.

Thank you for being an extra stitch in Theodore’s story.