Woolly Hugs...We are making a blanket for diege and her children : Lovely donors and crafters, please, we need your help.

[KnottyAndPistey]

You may have heard the dreadfully sad news that diege's husband died suddenly in June. Mental ill health can be such a devastating illness. Bless his heart. Life has been very cruel to them. We send diege and their six children our love and are so sorry for their loss.

We are so glad that diege has accepted our offer of a Woolly Hug, we hope it may give whatever comfort it can to them all. There will be love crafted into every stitch. Diege's thread is here if you would like to post condolences

So we are now asking for help once again

We need crocheters, knitters and donors (of funds or wool) Sincere thanks.

If you would like to be involved in any way, please post on this thread and PM us with your offers: crafting, donating, need wool, etc, we can help you with all of it.

Thank you so much

Our Yarns

• Drops Merino Extra Fine DK
• Jenny Watson Pure Merino DK
• Debbie Bliss Rialto DK
• Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK

• Artesano Superwash Merino DK
• Patons Merino Extrafine DK

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 - Rowan Cashsoft DK, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK or James C. Brett Pure Merino DK in your stash, please do use them.

Our listed yarns are all easily available online - Try Wool Warehouse, Wise Badger, Laughing Hens

The Colours

• Blues
• Oranges
, but just from these please…Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK - Pumpkin (373) -Debbie Bliss Rialto DK - Tangerine (56)- orDebbie Bliss Rialto DK - Burnt Orange (43)
• Greens
• Yellow, but this one please… Drops merino extra fine DK no 24 ‘light yellow’

Then for embellishments and accents, Jenny Watson pure merino DK WM7 ‘taupe’ and crream, one of the following - Debbie Bliss Rialto DK 02 ecru or Jenny Watson Pure Merino DK WM4 cream

From lovely diege
Colours for the blanket - lots of bright, sunshiny colours.In terms of themes, he loved the outdoors. Cycling a passion, also anything to do with fish, trees, plants, mountain climbing in Snowdonia, the seaside (Whitby!) and oddly cacti!
Our initials as follows
Mine : DW. His is J
Then the children...JW, SW, LW, (the girls), then the boys oddly the same - JW, SW, LW.

Thanks so much - I'm sure whatever the blanket looks like it will be amazing, and I'm so touched.
Many thanks, d x

Bless her heart, we will make something very beautiful for them as a tribute to her fabulous DH.

Simple or complex, made by beginner or expert, we genuinely welcome them all. It really is the love and thought that counts. There is support for buying colours on our website, here. Squares to be six inches, using 4mm needles or hook. Previous blankets can be seen on our website If looking for ideas for a pattern, there are many linked to from our website under Crafting

We also have a Facebook page Woolly Hugs and are on Twitter @Woolly_Hugs

When ready for posting, please PM for info. As always, we thank you so much for your support, please wait now to post after September 5th. Last posting Friday 30th September.

So sad that another blanket is needed. Diege, we are thinking of you and sending our love.

Thank you Zhx3 - we really appreciate this, bless you. xxxx

And lovely Spiral too xxx

Am having coffee in the morning with former yarn shop owner. She says I can "raid the garage" for her James C Brett stash. Better take the joint account cheque book

most definitely!

Much love to the Diege family

I'm away from home at the moment but I think I have the Drops yellow along with Drops sky blue and navy. Will they do?

Totally perfect, thanks Woolly xxx

Don't forget, if you receive donor yarn to come and let us know it has arrived safely, thank you xxx

A lovely donor to thank tonight,

Honestly your donations mean so much, we always want to be inclusive, for everyone to join in if they would like to, and some folk just wouldn't be able to afford to. Your kind donations make it possible, we really are so grateful. Thank you. xx

Hallelouja

Thank you so much xx

Thank you so much for posting and we'd love to take you up on your kind offer, thank you, shall come and PM now x

My wool has arrived - blue and orange, thank you very much to my donor x

Forgot to say, I will be doing a blue square with orange fish swimming on it

Hello,

I would like to make a few squares - will pm.

Pearl.

When is final posting likely to be? I would love to knit but am poorly and have little function in one of my arms at the moment

Last posting 30th September.

Hi.

I would like to knit a few squares, and can get wool. Do you need any particular colours?

I don't know her, but thoughts with Diege and her family.

Oops. Just seen the list of colours. Will get on it.

Morning

Yes September 30th for last posting. but now waiting until after the summer break to post please ( Sept 5th)

Good news wool is arriving, thank you everyone

Is everyone ok for yarn? Hopefully we have helped everyone xx

Thank you for my wool. The postman has just delivered it to me now :)

I've never joined in with this before so sorry for all the questions/if I'm being a bit dim. I want to go some granny squares which I can do in this colour, but then I was thinking about crocheting a fish applique to sew on to one, and possibly some initials.

I don't have any colours of the brands listed - I don't have some white and orange in my personal stash but I think they're just from places like hobby craft and Shaws - not the brands listed. Would they been ok to use to do the extra bits on the squares? Or should I just keep to doing just simple squares?

Thanks

Woolly wool has arrived, thank you

Wool has arrived today, thank you

Three balls arrived, thank you. Waiting till after holiday to make the squares.

My neighbour has just brought my wool round, they took it in for me as I was out - I didn't know as the postman hadn't left a red card. It's here though now so thank you to the donor

Arrived today so can make a start on some squares. Thank you to my lovely donor