Woolly Hugs. A Blanket for lovely JungleZgok whose wonderful teenage son has died.

[KnottyAndPistey]

You may have heard the dreadfully sad news that JungleZgok’s wonderful 18 year old son recently died very suddenly. Mental ill health can be such a devastating illness. Bless his heart. Life has been very cruel to them all. We send JungleZgok, her DH and their daughters our love and are so sorry. They are all in our thoughts.

We are so glad that she has accepted our offer of a Woolly Hug, we hope it may give whatever comfort it can. There will be love crafted into every stitch. JungleZgok’s original thread is here…

So we are now asking for help once again.
We shall need crafters and donors of funds and wool, can you help us? We’d be so grateful. Thank you so much.

Important crafting info, please do read
Squares to be six inches, using 4mm needles or hook. Please knot off VERY carefully when finishing or changing colour and sew your ends in, thank you! No blocking please, makes it much easier to join squares.

Simple or complex, made by beginner or expert, we genuinely welcome them all. It really is the love and thought that counts.

Ideas from lovely Jungle
His favourite colour was purple and he liked flowers (in particular the Bird of Paradise, pic in OP). He loved DIIV the band, sunsets and all types of music too. (DIIV is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York City.)

The Colours
Purples, his favourite, we plan to join and edge in purple too.
All blues from night sky through to pale blue
Greens, woodland shades
yellows, oranges, pinks, red (sunset shades)

The Yarn we will be Using….
Debbie Bliss Rialto DK ( Is on sale and can only be bought from Love Crafts)
Drops Merino Extra Fine DK, try Wool Warehouse here..
King Cole Luxury Merino DK on sale and at Love Crafts too.
Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK Currently on sale on at Black Sheep Wools
Patons Merino Extrafine DK Currently on sale at Lady Sew and Sew Knits

Just from the brands listed please because we know they combine for wash and wear. If you still have any of our wools that have been discontinued or difficult to source - Artesano Superwash Merino DK, Katia Merino 100% DK, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK, Jenny Watson Pure Merino DK or James C. Brett Pure Merino DK in your stash, please do use them.

When posting, it will be the Teddington address, please make sure you add your name and who the squares are for, and if you would like to include a card for JungleZgok and her family, please do, we will pass it on.

We know that some schools in the UK are already on summer break, and others are imminently doing likewise, so plan to stretch the last posting date to Saturday 10th September to give everyone a chance.

Thank you so much lovely Woolly crew.
Remembering their wonderful son.

Thank you @TheTerfTavern

Have PM'd you.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius what lovely squares wish I could knit 🥰

Thank you to whoever donated and sent me a ball of King Cole ‘Dill’, it’s a lovely shade of green. Photos to follow soon.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius - beautiful sunset colour squares .
And many congratulations on the new granddaughter- hope you shared lots of cuddles !

I would love to donate. My crochet skills are extremely basic, way more skilled than me.

Morning all

@superoz - one simple granny square would be wonderful!

Morning more wonderful donors to thank, funds safely with us and yarn already sent out, or your yarn has arrived with your crafter. Either way you are epic and we can thank you enough

@MinervaRemus
@HollowTalk
@akissbeforebed

Thank you

Is everyone ok? Everyone got yarn now? Still time to join if you are seeing this for the first time.

I will have a go! This is my first time and I’m not familiar with the process so just let me know what I need to do.

Thanks @Crockof we deliberately don't give you their MN name with their address for privacy, so you ARE sending to someone on this page, you just don't know who, unless they let you know, but that's their choice!

I bought myself some yarn to make and it hasn't arrived yet, so I'm getting impatient!

That makes sense, I've reported my post for deletion.

So new message to my crafter.

Thank you very much for crafting, really appreciate the skill involved. I have sent from Love Craft via Hermes (sadly, no other choice) should arrive within 2-4days.

@KnottyAndPistey My wool arrived today! Lovely colours. Many thanks to those who donated funds, I’ll get started on squares at the weekend 👍 xx

So glad my wool arrived - I kept getting emails saying delivery had been delayed!

Morning

First squares are here!

That’s lovely to read! How many squares are typically needed for a blanket?

Morning! Just.

usually we’d go for 99 @Decidualcast

Here’s my first square. It’s an attempt at a sunset.

Sparrow that is beautiful

I can't knit or crochet but I would love to donate wool x

Morning beautiful people