Tickets will be available via this link here, from 7pm on July 1st 2024!
The Great Woolly Hugs’ Christmas Hugathon in Manchester takes place on Saturday 30th December between 11.00am and 3.30pm, at the stunning Victorian Grade 2 listed Stretford Public Hall, Manchester. We are in the ground floor Old Library.
All info about this event is on the Eventbrite page. Please come! THANK YOU!
So pleased to let you know that the blanket is now with Mowly’s daughter and family. It really was such a big team effort, made and sent with so much love, Just a few photos, was hampered greatly by the great British weather. Thank you so much everyone. Thinking of Mowly, and all who love and must miss her terribly.
Little Iris wanted to say thank you for the gorgeous blanket she was given on the children’s ward where we spent a good chunk of her first five weeks of life and also the special Christmas one she received as a gift on her first ever Christmas. They definitely brightened our time there and we still use our rainbow blanket every day. Thank you to the lovely talented people who made them! Xx”
We were delighted when the staff at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle contacted us a couple of years ago and asked for help. They asked if it were possible to make some very special Little Hugs to use in the run up to Christmas for very sick children in hospital over this period. The pictures here are from previous projects, and we are delighted they would like us to make for the children again. This project will again help children and their families at very difficult times.
We are looking for six and twelve inch squares in the SSDK colours below. Christmas designs/themes/embellishments warmly welcomed. Fill your boots! Just this yarn in these colours please so we can match up squares and the blankets will be consistent for wash and wear.
Christmas cwtches could also be made in these sort of colours in cotton Christmassy prints, lightweight quilts. These must be machine washable and tumble dry possible only please.
Please no posting before September 2023, then whole blankets/quilts and separate squares please to Teddington.
We know this is super early, but we also know our lovely crafters like to plan and that crafting takes such a long time. We are delighted though to be launching our Christmas Craft Sale 2024, we hope you will join us. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and will help us raise much needed funds to continue our woolly work. With your love and support we hope it is a huge success! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!
The charity we shall support too this Christmas will be Parkinson’s UK.
Parkinson is a cruel disease. It is a progressive neurological condition. It affects people in different ways and to different degrees, but main symptoms include tremor, slowness of movement and muscle stiffness. It affects balance and can cause nerve pain.
This wonderful charity help support those living with it, those caring for others and young onset diagnosis, Their support includes how to improve every day life, work, legal, driving, relationships and family life.
As the largest European charitable funder of Parkinson’s research, Parkinson’s UK has invested over £100 million in vital research that has delivered groundbreaking discoveries, new medications and better care.
They say
By funding the right research into the most promising treatments, we get closer to a cure every day. Until then, we’re here for everyone affected by Parkinson’s. We’ll find a cure. Together.
We plan to send a donation of at least £500 to them after the sale. the reminder will go into our own charitable projects.
So every penny we can raise will go to help others, we hope you will support us, either by crafting, buying or even maybe both! Thank you so so much.
November 18th – 25th. The event itself will take place as usual all online through a Facebook event page and an Auction site attached to this website.
We are aiming to make and sell small/lightweight Christmas craft items. We are open to larger items too obviously, that is just a guide. Some suggestions for you, but we are very open to others too…
We are delighted to be working at this fabulous summer festival in West Sussex (20th and 21st July 2024) and will be introducing more crafters to our wonderful charity. There are still tickets to be had, click on this link if you think you might like to come to the festival, and if you do, please pop in to see us! It would be awesome to see familiar faces and Huggers, do let us know if you are coming!
From the Carry on Crafting team….
After the great success of our first two festivals, we are doing it all again! We are pleased to announce we are staying at the South of England Showground, which is set in 150 acres in Ardingly, West Sussex, with easy access by road, train or plane.
We are going to be packing in even more this year! So expect more crafts, more craft classes, more craft demos, more raw materials to buy, a fabulous craft market, fabulous food, shopping and of course you don’t have to leave as you can camp, and this year you get to stay for THREE nights! (19th, 20th and 21st) The festival is open to the public 9:30am to 5:00pm on Saturday and 10:00 am to 4:30 pm on Sunday. Don’t forget we are dog friendly so you can bring your furry four legged friend with you as long as they remain on a lead.
We plan to run Hugathon type workshop sessions throughout the weekend, focusing on our Snug project, getting folk to make 6 inch squares. We will be providing yarn. There is no booking needed for this, it will be a drop in activity. Hopefully it will be busy and great fun.
We’d love your help in two areas if at all possible please. Firstly we’d love to create a gorgeous super long summer festival pompom garland to decorate our event tents. ( And we plan to then to use for Hugathons after) So we are asking for folk to make and send as many pompoms as they can manage. We have chosen the palette below to keep a theme. It is SSDK, Whatever size pompoms you’d like to make, that’s what we’d love to receive! Thank you!
Secondly, we’d love to have some small items for sale. We will be seeking donations from crafters for our Hugathon workshops, but any fundraising we can do at the festival will be great, Given the nature of the festival, which is much more adult than say Camp Bestival which focusses on the whole family, we have spent some time thinking about what to ask for, and we have some ideas, you may well have others.
Any help would be so gratefully received, we can’t thank you enough!