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  • The Blanket for ImpatientWino

    The Blanket for ImpatientWino

    Oh, my, it’s AMAZING!!!!! The colours are incredible. I have sat and ran my fingers over such clever and beautiful squares, I’ve sobbed and smiled and have wrapped it round me and S and I sat and spotted the animals!

    I honestly cannot believe the effort and skill and the time that people have taken to make this blanket for us, William’s anniversary is only a few weeks away and I felt so close to him today whilst looking at it.

    The bunch of daffodils is just so incredible. I’m so so grateful to the lady that made them, as they aren’t around all year it will be great to be able to concentrate on their brightness in December. They are going to go in a glass vase that belonged to my late wonderful grandma and will take pride of place of my shelf.

    I feel such warmth and love from people that has gone into this gift and honestly it bowls me over. The kindness and support I have received from mumsnet and woolly hugs has been incredible (and in fact better than from some of my own family and friends)

    William and his loss have taught me so much about myself and others this last year and though my heart aches terribly I’m trying to pick up the pieces and find a way through this new life. S is our world and give us a reason to keep smiling through our tears.

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Woolly hugs will always have my support. E xxx

  • Children of Chernobyl Project 2015

    Our Children of Chernobyl project has finished for 2015, huge thanks to everyone who took part, it was a huge success. We look forward to next year when we will be helping more children. Thank you.

    This was our Crafting info…

    As we did last year, these photos from our 2014 project, we would love to make Little Hugs for a group of teenagers coming over to Leeds for a recuperative holiday in the summer with the fabulous charity the Chernobyl Children’s Project.

     

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    Each year these marvellous folk bring children over from Belarus, who live in the most contaminated area near the Chernobyl reactor. In summer, when the dust causes radiation levels to rise, it becomes even more important for as many children as possible to leave their contaminated homeland for a few weeks of fresh air and clean food. The rates of childhood cancer are at 75%; the most common cancers being thyroid and leukaemia. Coming to the UK for a four week break increases their immunity against the awful disease by up to 3 years when they return home.

    This year the group in Leeds (organised by an amazing MNer) are bringing twelve children who have had cancer and are now in remission. Sadly though there is a high chance of these children falling ill again. This summer there are four boys and eight girls coming, aged between 11 and 14. They all suffer living in such difficult conditions and with very little. How perfect it would be to make them each a Little Hug.

    Here’s how to help with this project…..

    We would like 12″ squares in bright and cheery Stylecraft Special DK colours.
    PLEASE AVOID bright green, bright pink, browns, greys, citron, sunshine, fiesta and jaffa. This will help squares fit together more easily. Make for a boy, girl or in a non-specific colour theme. We will be happy to accept 6″ squares if making a 12″ one feels too much. We are aiming for blankets that measure at least 48″ squared, or bigger

    *Crochet or knitted, 4mm hook or needles. No blocking and please sew in pesky ends.

    *If needed, we can supply yarn. Let us know if we can send to you.

    * Our last posting is Saturday 23rd May, so we have a chance of getting the blankets ready to go to the children on their arrival in the UK.

    * If anyone would like to donate funds to support this, we would be so grateful.
    Our paypal is admin@woollyhugs.com . Cheques and cash are very welcome too, just PM for the address.

    We know together we can do this – last year was an astonishing team effort.
    On behalf of these children, a huge THANK YOU.

    Pistey and Knotty X

  • The Blanket for TheDisillusionedAnarchist

    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…

     

  • The Blanket for Ludoole

    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…

     

     

     

  • The Blanket for MamaTeeTee

    The Blanket for MamaTeeTee

     

  • The Woolly Hug for toriap2

    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”

  • The Woolly Hug for RubbishMantra

    The Woolly Hug for RubbishMantra

    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