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 to the lovely donors, we have more to thank, honestly you are wonderful

RedRosie

True stars our donors xxx

Penguin For consistency in wash and wear, the yarns all need to be compatible - we can send you some bits for your appliqués which sound wonderful, thank you, we have one more post office run today, then that will be that until September, have some orange, would that work?

Just wanted to say thank you to my lovely donor , as my yarn has just arrived.

Such lovely colours

Also, since I have two blues, was thinking squares with waves for the seaside theme. Would that be OK?

Sounds perfect, thank you

Fingers crossed you send me some named orange samples and cactus green! If not, I'll work something out.
Still mave millions of pesky ends to keep me busy over the summer on my own projects, and have made a start on kinship squares.

Think we just sent you an orange and a green ball of wool Peace

I'm sorry, I've only just seen your reply! That would work thank you, but if I've missed the post office run, I can just make plain squares instead :)

Thank you, Knotty, that's more than I'd hoped for! :-) xx

Orange on the way xxxx

Thank you

I have my yarn thank you. It was taken to my neighbour by the postie and she's been away until this morning!

Thank you very much, my wool has arrived. Will start drawing patterns.

my wool has also arrived thank you so much

Such good news, thank you again lovely donors! x

More sad news I love that Woolly Hugs exist, but so wish they weren't needed.

I'm in. I will PM too. I have some lovely blues in my Woolly Hug stash.

My orange doesn't have a label. Do you know which it is KnottyAndPistey? It's really nice and I don't usually like orange.

Thank you lovely Leslie

PC - is it quite bright? Think probably tangerine from Debbie Bliss - which is being discontinued!

If you put a photo up I will know for sure xx

It's this one.

Oh that's pumpkin - its sublime.

Literally!!

That's a great shade. Currently out of stock.
I have some DB Tangerine and planning on using it. I didn't know it was discontinued, better chase down some more.

Just bought the last 4 balls of Tangerine from Wool Warehouse - if anyone wants any I can post some directly, just PM me with address.

my donor yan (2) has arrived from Loveknitting - thank you so much, there will be love in every stitch from us both.

Yarn has arrived! Beautiful lichen, a yellow and an orange. (which ones are they, I'll make up pegs for future reference).

The row above shows the oranges I already had, one far right) matches the one I've been sent, not sure what the others are.

And here's the photo to go with my post...