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

My yarn has been shipped!
They're on the ball this morning.

Gah! Meant to say, there are some superb squares on here. Great colours no wonkiness, just individuality.

unborn

Words of encouragement you say?
Can I have we have you on speed dial for when it comes to sewing pesky ends in, please?
Full cheerleader outfit & pompoms are job requirements😉😂

Morning all!
Some lovely squares on here - really like the colour combos. I am knitting single colours at the moment, but as soon as I have done a few , I think some stripes will be next :)
Encouragement is always welcome Unborn - and I sympathise Zing - I am promising myself to do the ends before starting a new square. I am not sure how long that resolution will last mind..
I am having to resist the impulse to pick up the knitting now , and go get on !

Morning!

You lot have inspired me to revive my poor, neglected crochet blog!

This is my first one, half way through the second now.

Where is the best place to buy the yarn online? Will check my local shop at lunchtime but would be good to have a backup although being able to shop from the comfort of home may not be good for my bank balance!

Hello all, I've commented on FB post but just wanted to say I've bought some needles and waiting for wool to be sent to me, going to try and knit some 'full of character' squares.
I have some style craft yarn on the way but desperate to get more so I can start practising.
I hope they pass muster.
Well done for doing such a wonderful thing, this group is excellent.

Zing closest I've got is my old netball kit..

They all seriously look brilliant, Woolley hugs is the heart of mn.

Vitty wool warehouse stocks the colors

I ordered mine from Wool Warehouse Vitty. Very fast delivery - I ordered Thursday evening, it arrived Saturday morning.

You lot have inspired me to revive my poor, neglected crochet blog!

Link link link link link link link.

MrsHathaway give me a few days to get it up to date 😁

Well done all you Loose Hookers.

Such colours!

Well, I popped to the wool shop in my lunch break, and due to my impulsive nature/inability to make a decision I now have 8 balls of wool & a new pair of 4mm needles. I knew this was going to be hard on my bank balance

Madison that's gorgeous.
Ordered wool!
I'm a bit rubbish and tend to end up doing garter and seed and rice/fleck stitch.
Any other easy stitches I could try?

More thank yous to wonderful donors, either your funds are safely here, or your wool with crafters, either way we are enormously grateful, thank you, you have allowed others to be involved who have the skills but not the funds. This is a project for everyone. A truly amazing team effort xxx.

MrsMozart

JD

Mammabear31

mysillydog

TanteRose

KO

Only1scoop

ExitPursuedBySantaSpartacus

Thank you doesn't seem enough, but bless you, thank you xxx

Zombie checks this thread a couple of times a day. Every time she does, she sheds a few tears. You are all, each and every one of you, unbelievably amazing.

She is also delighted to see how many new crafters are coming forward. Woolly Hugs always need more support be it donating yarn or some money to buy yarn as well as the army of talented hookers and knitters.

Zombie takes her hat off to you.

Another done - thanks to my kind donor

Hi, this is a great cause, I was just looking for a project like this I will crochet some granny squares, I went to my local shop this morning n bought some wool

So pleased with this puffy flower using the popcorn stitch

You have started a wonderful thing Zombie
Wolfie - ravelry has a lot of free patterns, and most are quite simple . I tend to use texture rather than colours and just swap around. The ones I have done so far are just knit and purl :) I took a picture to show the ones I have just finished, and they look the same colour! ( should be red and orange! )

Somer if you PM Knotty (the OP) she'll match you with a knitter to send wool to. Thanks for that, EssentialHummus. I will PM now.

MrSomer is claiming his mother taught him to knit and wants to see if he can do some squares to contribute. I look forward to encouraging his efforts by laughing.

Loving everyone's puffs!!

I really want to pick up my hook now, but I have more pressing things to deal with. I've managed to not only lock myself out of my blog, but out of the email address that it was linked to!! Aaargh!! Luckily I have all the posts etc, so I'm just going to post them on a new one!