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

Hmmm, just attempt to post photo and it's disappeared. Will try again. Four small squares down but with some ends to darn in. Need to complete a blanket for DS first though (2 rows plus borders to go) and I will be able to tell then if I have some more colours to use

We had a good inch of snow fall between about 4.30 and 7. It has now pretty much all melted Didn't even really have time to get DS out in it!

Just waiting for him to go to sleep, then I will cracking on with some more squares! Nap, dammit

One 12" and eight 6" done. I'm starting on another colour now. Thankyou to my donor for this lovely wool

zing PARCEL WAS DELIVERED About 5 MINS after I went out. Now can't pick it up until tomorrow !! I knew that would happen , anyway you can stop worrying now 😀 I am presuming it's the one from you !

Knotty I tried that pattern and its lovely!!
Its a bit bigger than 6" though :(

On my way to the Post Office ...

Two familiar patterns; four new.

Kelper. Here's one, but if you Google it you'll see lots of different ones

BigApple. The rate you are going, you could keep doing those & make a whole blanket 😁

Kelper - I love the colours on that one.

And MrsHathaway is the lilac bobbly one difficult to do - it looks fab!

Kelper - I love the colours on that one.

And MrsHathaway is the lilac bobbly one difficult to do - it looks fab!

Not at all, Salad - I'm waiting in the school playground atm but will copy out later. It's just a matter of putting 5 dtrc caught up together into the place you'd put one trc according to the pattern, but otherwise it's a plain granny.

Another 12" square done! Magenta, turquoise and boysenberry...

Bugger it I've just found another square I dropped on the way to the sellotape. Oh well, that can go in the next batch! It was another tricky new pattern and all...

Will catch up soon. Just sorting our Chernobyl blanket launch!
Wool can be a busy world 😊

Thanks lin fx it is, I'm weary 😂

I'm a couple of inches into my first square and I think it's about 2 stitches too narrow to be exactly 6 inches (I cast on 34 stitches). Is that satisfactory or shall I start again. I'm knitting moss/seed stitch so hasn't taken that long to do.

I am in awe of everyone else's squares. Mine are one colour - I'm concentrating on texture - wishing I'd gone for some colour work too now.

I am doing one colour textures too. IAmNot - you are not alone! I have promised myself I will get to do a rainbow stripe, when I have done some in each of the constituent colours :) . Besides, our efforts will enhance the colourful ones ! .
mm - I think they can wangle the squares a bit - they may need a few smaller ones to balance the slighter larger of square - you can ask K&P
( my tension is different to yours - 30 stitches for me is almost exactly 6")

ChippinginLovesWoollyHugs don't tempt me!! The thought had crossed my mind more than once but sadly I have almost run out of a couple of colours! I love this thread. Woolly love to you all, from me

Don't panic re being slightly over 6".

Similarly, under 6 is fine too.

If it stretches to 6", all is well

If hooking in the round, you could always make the final round HTR (HDC US ) or dc.

For @SaladDressing ...

Looks far more complicated than it actually is, if you're used to solid granny squares. It's just working out where the bobbles go.

Thank you KandP - that's good to hear

And I agree Book - our squares will be enhancing

BigApple. It is an ongoing project...

My name is ChippingIn, I am an enabler...😁