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The Blanket for Vickibee
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SOLD OUT… The Great Woolly Hugs’ Hugathon. Portsmouth Harbour. Saturday 1st October 2022
The Great Woolly Hugs’ Hugathon in Portsmouth Harbour takes place on Saturday 1st October 2022 between 11.00am and 3.30pm, at St George’s Church Of England Portsea (Harbour Church, Gunwharf location) Its a stunning location, the building itself is over 250 years old!
Our Venue is fully accessible. Access to the venue is via a gentle and wheelchair-friendly ramp from the street pavement. There are accessible bathroom facilities.
TICKETS COST £15 EACH
Tickets will include a special Event tote bag with Caroline Ball design, with mystery goodies inside!
These are onsale from Eventbrite, click here…..
Our Hugathons are a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow Woolly Huggers who share a love of crafting. They are friendly and inclusive. It is a great time for chatting with your fellow Woolly crew and sharing ideas. If Tortie behaves we will let him come too! We’ve included some testimonials from folk who have been to one before, which might be useful if this is your first time.
During the Hugathon we will attempt to get as many 6 inch squares made. In Portsmouth we are focussing on our Snug for Christmas 2022. The colours are as above, thank you Ali for the pic! We will provide all SSDK, but please remember to bring your 4mm hooks/knitting needles, you will need them! If you have any squares already made for THIS project, please bring them, it may be that we can get some kits out for construction.During our event, but in a different room, Alexsis from Seeded will be running her Seeded Destash event until 2pm. We are not planning to hold destash this time, but do bring your pennies in case you’d like a wander round her event too!
We have use of the kitchen area, and will provide the wherewithal for making tea and coffee for a donation. Bring a packed lunch, snacks and drinks, we won’t judge if that is alcohol 😀COVID. Inevitably as covid is here to stay, we will follow protocols at the time. We have visited the venue this week and undertaken our risk assessment.
Do join us, we’d love to meet you or see you again. And if you are worried about not knowing anyone, let us know and we can get you seated and chatting as quick as a flash.
From folk who have been to a Hugathon before…
Walking into a room of people you might have never met could be daunting … but at the Hugathon you are surrounded immediately with love, purpose and wool! What better way to spend a day? Alexsis
A warm woolly welcome to all. I travelled there alone, anxiously entered, not knowing a soul. Within a few mins I felt so welcomed and part of this wonderful group. A room full of like minded people, wool galore, cakes, tea, coffee, and probably gin
JulieA wonderful experience meeting friends and like minded people. Like sinking into a warm bath of friendship I’ve always known but never met before. Jen
Attending the Woolly Hugs Hugathon was an amazing experience, putting faces to the names you had made friends with online in the pursuit of a common goal to spread yarn love around the UK and the World. Paula
A fabulous day meeting ‘strangers’ I have known online for years. Sharing yarn, craft skills, cake and laughter. Returning home full of love for the wonderful Woolly Huggers! Jo
It was lovely to meet all the folk I have made virtual friends with online . It gave me a real sense of us working together helping to make something beautiful and worthwhile . It was also lovely for the chat , laughter and to admire the amazing craftmanship going on around me , and how everyone was happy to share their expertise Steph
The hugathon is where the WH virtual community crosses over into a face to face community, meeting others who you may have got to know online. It’s so lovely to be able to sit and work and natter together, comparing notes and making friends. It epitomises the spirit of WH, crafters working together to benefit others. Alison
I’ve only been to one but it was brilliant and had gin
AnnaHow to get there…
The venue address…
St. George’s Church, St Georges Square, The Hard, Portsea, PO1 3AT
If arriving by car we suggest parking in Gunwharf Quays carpark and walking over, this is what we did when we visited, it was about 15 min walk.
Gunwharf Quays Car Park Tariff
Up to 2 hours, £2.90
2 – 3 hours, £3.90
3 – 4 hours, £6.00
4 – 5 hours, £6.90
5 – 7 hours, £8.00
7 – 9 hours, £10.00
9 – 10 hours, £12.00
10 – 24 hours, £20.00 for any over nightersThere is on street parking via Ringo, but is notably hard to find.
The venue is very close to
Portsmouth Harbour train station and links to the Isle of Wight, come on you Islanders!Thank you folks! G&G
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Woolly Bugs and Camp Bestival July 2022
Woolly Hugs and Camp BestivalWoolly Hugs is headlining (in our hearts) at Camp Bestival this summer. Well we are ACTUALLY having a charity stall! Please come and find us if you are attending! Tortie will be in attendance.
We really need your help please beautiful people!
As well as spreading the woolly message and rallying more crafters to our ranks, we shall be running some craft activities and a game for visitors, and are looking to have a few craft items to sell. A bit like a craft sale but at Camp Bestival. Raising much needed funds for our own projects particularly Chernobyl this year. Going for a woodland/animal theme. We also need lots of these cute crocheted Woolly Bugs for prizes and for sale. Last posting for Camp Bestival is Friday 15th July, to Teddington, please write bugs on the outside!
Woolly Hugs present the The Bugs!One for the Crochet crew. This is the base as devised by lovely Ali Oxford. Suggestions for personalising are as below. Safety eyes only please, or embroidered. We can email a PDF if that’s easier, email us on admin@woollyhugs.com
Woolly Bugs can be made in any yarn and colour. You can use plain or variegated yarn. Personalise your bug with accessories – spots, spikes, hats, wings, hair, etc. You could make them into real bugs – ladybirds, bees, etc. Let your imagination run wild. Please ensure that all accessories are securely attached to your bugAccessory Ideas
Craft Sale items with a woodland/animal theme. All to be small please! Sewing, knitting, all the things
- Bunting
- eco facepads
- lavender bags/ bugs
- pocket friends (tiny little cuddles)
- drawstring bags, adult and child sized
- brooches
- keyrings
Vague ideas below….
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The Woolly Hugs for lovely BOF’s family
We knew her time left with us was short, but the news of Bee/BOF’s death was still a terrible shock, we send so much love to her family and her many, many friends who love and will miss her greatly.
Reading everything we have, the thing which really strikes us is how much she was loved. As a significant presence on MN, she was a proper good egg, astute, kind and funny. So many benefitted from her incredible sense, passion and support. She ALWAYS knew what to say it seemed. This was replicated over on Facebook, for those in her amazing reading group, and of course to those who counted her as close friends in the real world. She gave of herself so freely. Touching the lives of so many, she was beautiful inside and out. I constantly felt in awe of her. We were lucky and went to her wedding, and this is how we will remember her, this glorious vibrant epic woman in absolute love. We just wish we’d known her better and for longer. Those who did, you were truly blessed.
However we knew her, we were the lucky ones
Our original crafting thread is here
We made four blankets, so that each of her direct family could have a Woolly Hug with them and know how much we loved her. So for her husband Lee, her two beautiful adult daughters and her mum. Thank you everyone, it was a big challenge, but one achieved easily in the end. We’d chosen our colour theme to match her wedding and hope this worked well. The core of each blanket was the same as folk made four matching squares to cover across the set.
Lee was seriously emotional and grateful to receive them, bless him, they will all miss her terribly. Huge love to him and all missing her wherever they are xx
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Where our Spring Sale funds will go, please read…
“We are helping our teams relocate people to safety, providing urgent medicines, food & water, care products for children on palliative care. We have already setup two aid delivery co ordination points, one on the Polish Border the other on the Slovakian Border. Only today we received a desperate request for help to provide specific care items and food for 36 families with severely disabled children stuck out in the villages. They are in desperate need of a mobile ambulance to help move these children, many of whom are immobile. This is how we work, together with our people on the ground but we do so quietly, discreetly and without seeking publicity.” CCLLPlease come to our craft sale so we can maximise our donation to these wonderful people in Ukraine. We’ve long supported the Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, now they need our help more than ever. Please like and share, we need to engage as many people as possible! -
The Great Woolly Hugs’ Hugathon. Edinburgh. Saturday 12th March 2022
TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH EVENTBRITE ONLY, PLEASE CLICK HERE!!
The Great Woolly Hugs’ Hugathon in Edinburgh takes place on Saturday 12th March 2022 between 11.00am and 3.30pm, at St Columba’s by the Castle Church Hall in central Edinburgh, just off the Royal Mile, close to Edinburgh Castle. If you are coming, look out for the big blue door, it really does stand out! The full address is below.
Our Venue is fully accessible. Access to the venue is via a gentle and wheelchair-friendly ramp from the street pavement and there is a lift to the level of the hall and garden area downstairs. There are accessible bathroom facilities.
Tickets cost £15 each.
Tickets will include a special Event tote bag with NEW DESIGN COURTESY OF CAROLINE BALL with mystery goodies inside! We will have ‘early bird’ tickets for anyone with a Scottish postcode on sale from February 1st at 7pm, then 24 hours later tickets will be on sale for evvveryone
Our Hugathons are a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow Woolly Huggers who share a love of crafting.They are very friendly and inclusive. It is a great time for chatting with your fellow Woolly crew and sharing ideas. If Tortie behaves we will let him come too! We’ve included some testimonials from folk who have been to one before, which might be useful if this is your first time.
Our Chernobyl Project palette 2022 During the Hugathon we will attempt to get as many 6 inch squares made. In Edinburgh we are focussing on our Chernobyl Project 2022. We will provide all SSDK, but please remember to bring your 4mm hooks/knitting needles, you will need them! If you have any squares already made for THIS project, please bring them, it may be that we can get some kits out for construction.
We will also be running a rather fabulous Lucky Dip (£1 a go) and our legendary Gin Raffle (£1 a ticket) We will also be running a DeStash table. If you have crafting items to donate to our DeStash table please do bring, remember one person’s destash is another person’s treasure! And finally we get to debut our Yarn Bingo game, you will not want to miss this!
We have use of the kitchen area, and will provide the wherewithal for making tea and coffee for a donation. Bring a packed lunch, snacks and drinks, we won’t judge if that is alcohol 😀
COVID. We have visited the venue this week and undertaken our risk assessment. Covid is here to stay and we must all be mindful and work within the local guidance. Tickets for this Event will be limited, we will provide hand sanitiser, the hall is well ventilated and we are going to ask that folk undertake a lateral flow test before coming and do not come if it is positive. Under current Scottish regs at an indoor event like ours, masks are not required when sitting down, eating and drinking, but are required when up and moving around, so folk must comply with this.
Do join us, we’d love to meet you or see you again. And if you are worried about not knowing anyone, let us know and we can get you seated and chatting as quick as a flash.
From folk who have been to a Hugathon before…
Walking into a room of people you might have never met could be daunting … but at the Hugathon you are surrounded immediately with love, purpose and wool! What better way to spend a day? Alexsis
A warm woolly welcome to all. I travelled there alone, anxiously entered, not knowing a soul. Within a few mins I felt so welcomed and part of this wonderful group. A room full of like minded people, wool galore, cakes, tea, coffee, and probably gin
JulieA wonderful experience meeting friends and like minded people. Like sinking into a warm bath of friendship I’ve always known but never met before. Jen
Attending the Woolly Hugs Hugathon was an amazing experience, putting faces to the names you had made friends with online in the pursuit of a common goal to spread yarn love around the UK and the World. Paula
A fabulous day meeting ‘strangers’ I have known online for years. Sharing yarn, craft skills, cake and laughter. Returning home full of love for the wonderful Woolly Huggers! Jo
It was lovely to meet all the folk I have made virtual friends with online . It gave me a real sense of us working together helping to make something beautiful and worthwhile . It was also lovely for the chat , laughter and to admire the amazing craftmanship going on around me , and how everyone was happy to share their expertise Steph
The hugathon is where the WH virtual community crosses over into a face to face community, meeting others who you may have got to know online. It’s so lovely to be able to sit and work and natter together, comparing notes and making friends. It epitomises the spirit of WH, crafters working together to benefit others. Alison
I’ve only been to one but it was brilliant and had gin
AnnaHow to get there…
Lothian Region Transport buses run along nearby George IV Bridge and Lothian Road. The venue is also close to Princes Street and George Street, further bus information can be found at the City Council website.
The venue is also reasonably close to Edinburgh’s Waverley station for rail services.
Parking is limited in the area:
Metered On-street parking: Johnston Terrace 8:30am – 6:30pm Mon-Sat (charges apply)
Closest NCP Parking: Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EW https://www.ncp.co.uk/parking-solutions/cities/edinburgh/
St. Columba’s by the Castle, 14 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2PW ( Big blue door!)
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The Great Spring Craft Sale 2022!
Welcome to our Spring/Easter 2022 craft sale and Auction, thank you so much for joining us. All funds raised will go directly into our own Woolly Hug projects with a focus on our Chernobyl project 2022. Every penny raised will go to help others, we hope you will support us, either by crafting, buying or even maybe both! Thank you so so much. x
Crafting info…
We would love our crafters to make Spring/Easter craft items, and to keep postage costs to a minimum we ask that ideally anything made can be sent on to a buyer in a large envelope. We are open to larger items too obviously, that is just a guide. We will then sell these beauties through the sale.
Some suggestions for you, but we are very open to others too…
- Spring and Easter decorations, bunting, garlands, Easter egg themes etc
- Anything sheep wise is ALWAYS popular!
- Small gifts – Little bags, purses, brooches, hair accessories, key rings, gift bags, tags,
- Clothing – but lightweight ONLY please, we find heavier winter hats, scarves don’t sell well at this time. PLEASE include the yarn type or ball band so we can let folk know how to wash their new treasure. Socks are always very popular!
- Woolly, fabric, card, embroidered, beaded, all crafty crafts welcome!!
- Lovely lovely things!
- Ten items per crafter as a max, although do message us re this if you need to!
Absolute last posting for crafts to be 1st March please, earlier is better for us if at all possible.
The Sale itself will take place online between March 21st – 26th.
Please message for the posting information if you need, but it will be Teddington.