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.

We have another lovely donor of funds to thank. Yarn already sent on your behalf. You really are amazing.

@tirednewmumm ⭐

these blankets couldn’t function without our lovely donors!

Absolutely gorgeous treasure arriving safely. Our crafters really are an astonishing bunch. Thank you so so much!

@Dutchoma Such a beautifully knitted initial in a rich teal. Fabulous

@TheIoWfairy As shown up thread, simply gorgeous crochet. Wonderful

@bookbook Apologies for the delay, took the Bestival craft and put these aside as was so short on time, as seen upthread and marvellous inc the bird of paradise flower. So clever.

@Fairyfellowsmasterstroke Absolutely brilliant and as seen upthread. Bobble letters to spell out DIIV, a flower and solid granny. Fabulous

JB A beautifully crocheted heart square in two shades of blue. Plus a fantastic red knit depicting music notes. Brilliant

More to come. Stand by. Huge thanks to everyone. You truly are amazing.

They never are a problem once they get in with others!

Gorgeous yarn turned up today, thank you so much to whoever donated it! Will get cracking on some squares this weekend.

Yay @PeppaPigIsBacon uou are cleared for take off!

Some more beautiful treasure arriving safely from lovely crafters. Absolutely gorgeous. Honestly you folk are astonishing

@Yiayoula We think of these as her trademark. Beautifully knitted stars and hearts in different shades of blues and greens, purple, yellow As seen upthread.

LJ in rich purple and red, beautiful crocheted hearts and grannies. Utterly stunning

KB in blues and purples, gorgeous circles to squares, willow, flowers. All totally beautiful

Absolute treasure. Thank you so much

And another wonderful donor to thank….

@ThumbWitchesAbroad Yarn has safely arrived with your crafter. You star

Mine are on their way - sorry we took so long to get them into the post.

Thanks, K & P, for saying my hearts and stars are my trademark - I confess they are the only motif squares I can actually knit , but “trademark” sounds sooooo much nicer !! 🤣
Am in awe of the skateboards, birds of paradise , musical notes and initials that my fellow Woolly Huggers produce …….

Definitely a trademark!

Evening beautiful people

Hello, wondering how to attach the 3D skateboard to the background square which is supposed to be a sunset. My daughter suggested that I attach it by the edge. The alternative is by the four wheels. Either way it does stick out quite a bit 😬.

Call it 3D. Sounds more creative. That’s incredible and 3D is wonderful 😃

I really don’t know which would be better. Was just trying to imagine. It’s fantastic either way. So clever

Morning!

Yay! Happy days.
I'm still mostly staying off the site cos it keeps buggering up my aged laptop but pleased to come back to good news! to lovely donor.

afternoon!

My squares ready to be posted. I think the orange flower on red background will need stretching out a bit, but it will end up the right size

I only had scraps of blue so I went for mostly sunset colours, I hope that will work

Absolutely glorious @FluffandBuzz thank you!

Lovely Jungle has given us a few more ideas and we would love it if anyone can help, we have yarn donations to enable this, so just shout if you need a particular colour. I've just C&P her message....

May I also suggest in addition to the rest:

Fish and Turtles (DS was going to study Marine Biology at Uni this Sept)

Penguins (childhood favourite of his)

Flowers (he worked in a flower shop)

Football

Cats (we have two - 1 black, 1 tabby)

I know we can make all these things between us, can you help?

Thank you so so much xxxx

I shall tag folk

I'm actually having a Fanta zero but there's no lil pic for that

I haven't started yet and those should be within my capability, I will check my stash tonight and report back.

@EquallyDivided that would be incredible thank you!

@Bearfrills @bookbook @TheNinjaGooseIsHooking @minniebar @TheWoollybacksWife @Fairyfellowsmasterstroke @TheIoWfairy @MadisonAvenue @SpiralArchitect @WitchDancer @ToadyPoady @MNP2Nanny4two