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“To everyone who has contributed to our blanket ( and especially knotty and pistey), thankyou so so much. It is so amazing and wonderful and the work that has gone into it has just blown us away. I can’t express how grateful we are. Becks has been cuddled under it all evening, examining the squares and squealing occasionally, and now I am. Thankyou again you lovely lovely people xxxx. toria and becks”

I received my woolly hug today. I can’t put into words how much I love it, because words don’t do this beautiful creation justice. It’s not a blanket, it’s a 3 dimensional work of art.

I’ve looked at every single square, and marvelled at them all.

I think I may have mentioned that DH used to make a lot of collages. So to have a big, woolly collage made by you all is the best thing ever.

Thank you also for the lovely cards and sentiments inside them.

It came early this morning, and I took it up to bed with me and had a little snooze, cuddling it.

Heartfelt thanks, love Mantra xxxx

“Thank you so so much,you really do make the world a nicer place to live in, to think you have all volunteered to create a blanket for a complete stranger is amazing,you are all amazing and so thoughtful. My daughter is going to be over the moon when she sees it, and of course each square will tell a story, a different story every night. I really can’t thank you all enough for doing this for us, it means the world. You are all fantastic people with the biggest of hearts. Thank you again. Much love.xxxx”

All I can say is thank you, clearly there has been an immense amount of work, love and thought to producing such an amazing ,…. I’m not even sure what word to use, yes it’s a blanket, but really it’s a beautiful piece of art, just calling it a blanket is an injustice to the clearly huge amount of effort that has been put into making it.

I don’t know how I can put into words now much I appreciate what everyone has done for me.

Jon

He asks us to pass on his thank to everyone, bless his heart. xxxx

Our original crafting thread is here.

“We’ve opened DD1’s blanket. It’s amazing. Thank you so much. Words don’t seem enough. I’m sat here in tears wrapped up in it with DH. I will be forever grateful to everyone that’s contributed. Your generosity and kindness are overwhelming. I know if DD1 were here she too would love it and be wrapped up in it with us. xxx”

Would you be able to post the following thank you message up on the thread. I really want to thank each and every individual who has contributed, am moved to tears.

“Dear lovely Mumsnetters and the community of Woolly hugs”,

It is now 18 months since Nikki died, and although our lives are more bearable and our children being so much happiness there isn’t a day that goes by when we don’t miss Nikki.

Also, at a time when so much seems to be going wrong in the world acts of such generosity love and kindness are even more special.

As you know, Nikki, DashingRedhead, was a very keen Mumsnetter and the wonderful community provided a lot of support to her all though her illness and to us after they died.

The colours are Nikki’s autumn colours. I love how the patchwork squares that include all four of our initials, the female symbol to show her feminism, shamrocks and Celtic crosses for her Irish heritage and peacocks for her Burmese.

There is music, wine, sea shells (she loved living by the sea, as well as visiting the Rosslaire beaches of her father) and even handbags to show how much she loved playing Miss Prism in the Importance of Being Earnest in a school production. Last but not least there are minions.

This really captures the essence of Nikki. I am not in any way religious myself but I am absolutely certain that Nikki would have loved it too. I am just bowled over.

Thank you once again. Geoff. x