Christmas Hug Project. Waiting to confirm this project will run in 2020!

This is a beautiful new project making cuddly friends to give to Chernobyl children in Belarus. It is run through a charity called Friends of Chernobyl Children who as well as bringing children over, work with families in remote areas in Belarus experiencing extreme poverty in very challenging conditions.

Waiting to confirm this project will run in 2020!

Can you help us?

We are looking for homemade cuddly friends to go and give huge hugs to children this Christmas time.
Knit, crochet, sewn all very welcome indeed.
Teddies, rabbits, people, this bit is up to you!
Avoid white and very pale colours for practical reasons.
Size wise – approx 20 – 30cm, not much bigger please for transportation purposes.
We don’t know exactly the ages of the children who will receive them, so please avoid buttons and trimmings that might be dangerous for little ones. Think safety!
These are for boys and girls, neutral is good, but we would love some aimed at each too.
Our Christmas Hugs will be given to the children during December/January in time for the Orthodox Christmas

Thank you so much, as always. xxx

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1 June 2016

The Blanket for TheDisillusionedAnarchist

We received Rumer’s blanket on Friday and we just wanted to say thank you so very much. It is beautiful and it made me cry. The rainbows just like her blanket, the elephants after her suits. Incy Wincy spider, the morning town train, the boat and the grey bear including one with his white bow tie, so lovely. We will treasure it. This is a picture of Rumer’s very new brother Sage on Rumer’s blanket.

Our original thread is here…

20 January 2016

The Blanket for Ludoole

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the beautiful ‘woolly hug’s blanket that we received this week
It is absolutely beautiful and the boys and i have already spent an evening cuddled up on the settee underneath it.
The detail is amazing. Thankyou to everybody who enabled us to recieve the blanket. It will be treasured all our lives. xxx

Our original crafting thread for Ludoole and her family is here…

20 December 2015

The Blanket for MamaTeeTee

6 December 2015

The Woolly Hug for toriap2

“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”