Woolly Hugs: Blankets for the Children of Chernobyl. Squares needed!

[KnottyAndPistey]

As we did last year, 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.

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.

*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 [email protected] . 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

Yay! No pink! :o

Morning

This is genuinely true Soupy, top right is from me, but I have lost my case with all my needles etc in. I REALLY HAVE, so not all peskies will be under control....

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But I could swap it for a pink one?

It's the Hookers equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".

I have about eleventy billion and one pesky-darning needles. Although I'm not sure where any of them are .....

I have this green pencil case thing with everything is, and I saw it somewhere odd, and I thought THERE YOU ARE, but didn't move it then, and now I can't bloody well bloody find it

You can always hook it in, and send it back for de peskification

It's the Hookers equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".

yes

It's probably in my house somewhere. Possibly in DS2s bedroom along with an entire lost Incan civilisation and a woolly mammoth.

These are just the ones loose in my pencil case and scavenged from the windowsill by the sofa. There are more. As I lose them so often, whenever I see old sewing collections at my favourite charity warehouse, I grab them in the hope there are needles inside. :)

I want to go to your charity warehouse!

It's mine, all mine!

Celebrating the start of #VolunteersWeek with the most enormous, THANK YOU to each and every one of our fabulous Woolly Hugs crew, crafters and donors alike.

What you do is extraordinary, so many children and their families feel love, support, comfort, kindness and compassion through your overwhelming generosity.

Loved and looked after.
To all our amazing volunteers who make it all possible THANK YOU!!

My hook-it-together yarn has just arrived and my postman clearly now thinks I'm bonkers. Ms S Dragon indeed...

:)

arf

That was a stored contact and address in WW, so not for the first time then!

The parcel of squares is on the way, will need signing for, hope that isn't too much of a pain.

Thank you so much!

I am always in for my neighbours parcels and no one is ever in for mine :o

But it does get here in the end!

next time I go to my quilt shop remind me to get you both some "woolly" needles
pesky ends are exactly one degree better than naughty kids. at least they are quiet!

Not layouts, these are just the collections of the squares going to the Team Hooker, thank you so much to them.

Thank you so much to everyone