Knitting for charity

[JeanSeberg]

Can anyone recommend a charity I can knit for please? Preferably relatively cheap and simple patterns.

Thanks in advance.

SANDS need small blankets in white double knitting yarn. You can get 2 out of 300 gram and you can get quite nice white double knitting yarn from the market, Wilkinson or something like that. They are very easy to knit, even though there is a fair amount of work involved.

Ooh what's woolly hugs?

There are threads about Woolly Hugs in the Philosophy and Religion department. It's very much a Mumsnet thing.

You could also contact the neonatal unit at your nearest hospital.

Wooly Hugs have a few projects:

Little Hugs - blankets for children in Yorkhill Hospital
Billies Blankets - blankets for children with cancer in poor counties
Angel Hugs - blankets in white for the Royal Brompton Hospital
Angel Teds - pairs of identical bears
Babette Panels - 12" squares that are put together into bigger blankets for either of the blanket projects.
Woolly Hugs - how it all started. Blankets for bereaved MNers.

Woolly Hugs have now got an appeal for Chernobyl that you might like to join in with

Our local maternity unit sells little things for premie babes, with the money going to the neo natal unit.

I know someone who knits poppies for poppy days for the British Legion, with a number of other women.

I knit for orphanages in Moldova and the Ukraine's, heaven only knows why.

The current Woolly Hugs extra project is for children visiting from Chernobyl