Zombie and Woolly Hugs. Come and find out about Candy's Hugs, we need your help.

[KnottyAndPistey]

Our lovely Zombie (who has said she doesn’t mind being outed as Candy) has long been a supporter of Woolly Hugs, bless her for it! Recently she made a very kind donation to us, and we would love to start an Ongoing project to honour this remarkable woman, who we have both had the privilege of meeting, dancing and drinking with. She is utterly fab-u-lous. :)

After a chat with Zombie we have made a plan which she loves. We would like to make comforting cosy blankets with love in every stitch for women going through treatment for breast and other cancers, and at times these may form part of palliative care. They will be called Candy’s Hugs.

Zombie is a bright and beautiful woman so we have chosen a palette to reflect this which we call Vibrant Riot; it is inspired too by a blanket that was made for her to give big hugs as she goes through treatments.

Will you join with us? If you would like to be involved in any way, we’d love to have you on board. Please post on this thread and PM with your offers: crafting, donating, need wool, etc, we can help you with all of it.

The yarn is Stylecraft Special DK. Just this please for consistency, and in these colours...

Vibrant Riot Palette
Boysenberry
Claret
Empire
Fuchsia
Grass
Kelly green
Lavender
Lime
Lipstick
Magenta
Meadow
Petrol
Plum
Pomegranate
Saffron
Sherbet
Shrimp
Spice
Turquoise
Tomato
Violet

Squares to be 12 inch or 6 inch, crochet or knitted equally welcome, please use 4mm hook or needles. No blocking necessary and please sew in ends, and make sure any colour changes are firmly knotted.

All crafting abilities genuinely welcome, squares made by beginner or expert will be equally cherished. Simple, complex, single colour, mixed colour. It really is the love and thought that counts.

If you would like to learn how to knit or crochet in 2017, crack on! We have help for the complete beginner here…. And are on hand to help talk you through as well. YouTube has lots of tutorials, you WILL find one that suits! :)

If you feel ambitious and would like to make a whole blanket, then that is wonderful, we are aiming for blankets approx 48 inches by 60 inches, certainly no smaller.

Candy’s Hugs will be an ongoing project, our first posting date is to be January 28th. Do message for posting info when ready.

We are on Facebook - Woolly Hugs and Twitter too @Woolly_Hugs both are good ways to keep in touch.

Thank you so much xx

Pop, your blanket is amazing, I sort of got a bit emotional looking at it! how long did it take?

The giant one? About five weeks. But that included a lot of tantrums frigging.

Believe it or not, I would highly recommend it as a first "big" project, it teaches you so much about different stitches and how they are formed etc. A lot of it, I already knew, but I learned a lot from this.

Omg...FROGGING!!!!! DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!!

Although, tbf, that wasn't as bad as the "Tom Wanks" autocorrect fail on a thread a few weeks ago. Damn phone!

Well I don't know what frogging is either!!! If I were drinking tea when I read that I would most definitely have spat it!! I can only do granny squares though, I think it might be about 20 years before I was up to that standard. 5 weeks|?? did you not sleep?

Nope!

Oh, and frogging is ripping out a whole row, usually in a temper, because you screwed it up. Frogging is usually followed by lots of swearing and wine.

FRIGGING?

Frogging is named so because you rip it (ribbit) back.

knotty I know! . If I take myself off to the naughty step, can I take my crochet with me?

I couldn't find any square patterns under the Crafting Guide on the website? Am I being thick? (Almost certainly)

My wool is on the way but what size needles for knitting and how many stitches, I am quite a loose knitter.

Hi Mummylin - I knit almost to tension , I use 4 mm needles and 31/ 32 stitches and 44/45 rows depending on the pattern, so as you knit a bit loose, I would try 30 at a guess.
I had better wave at flutter :) - she was looking at all the lovely wool in the bags that arrived yesterday

Yup, deffo wonky. But cute I think.

TheOriginalLEM - I have found ravelry quite good. I searched dishcloth patterns, and looked through ones that I could adjust to the right size HERE

Thanks bookbook

Thanks bookbook - will be wistful at work all day tomorrow, hoping for a delivery. Can't decide whether to knit or crochet :) I'm equally crap at both :)

Well inspired by you lot, I watched a tutorial or two last night and am ridiculously pleased to have produced this wonky piece of work.
It may end up as a scarf, in the meantime I'll be buying some of the vibrant riot!

Meladicta well done you! ☺

Maladicta - I've taken the plunge too. Just waiting for my wool to arrive and making lots of tangles practising in the mean time.

today has not been a good crochet day. I will manage a square. i will i will!!

today has not been a good crochet day. I will manage a square. i will i will!!

I'm not sure wine helps..
We can tangle along together Armi!
I may have ordered a ball or five...

Croxhetnanigans mind if I ask what you're struggling with? Can we help?

Im trying to do the moss stitch. which i can do but getting in 6 inches wise isnt happening. then by using 2 colours the pattern is boring. then last few rows ive misstitched so its wonky. having a bad day with it..will try again tomorrow!