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

Good morning from Sunny Stoke!

Emmerdale omnibus, coffee and a morning of adding a flower round to The Zombie here!

Morning Pop Emmerdale omnibus here but still in bed, not a knitting needle in sight

I am psyching myself up to have a bash at a granny square this afternoon

Five yay! Totally un-crochet-related, but WHAT has happened to Moira? She used to be on my laminate list!

I may borrow some needles and attempt to learn to knit.

I would happily go to jail and murder Lochlan and Chrissy and the rest of them at Home Farm

Ha! Me too!

Still mentally scarf after the Jimmy and Nicola sex scene...BOAK!

*scarred, obviously..

Good morning hookers (and knitters).

Well today's job list goes as follows:-

• 2 loads of laundry to get through
• Batch of Butternut Squash Soup to make
• Get out for a walk to ease the discomfort that comes from a residue DVT
• Make chicken curry for tea
• Plan next weeks meals/packing ups etc
• GET HOOKING!!! Today's target is 2 x 6" squares using designs that are new to me.

The joy of being part of a crafting community is that I see other people's achievements and it spurs me on to try new styles. I've mastered c2c, granny squares, granny squares with flowers etc but I'm looking forward to starting a new style.

Last night I finished my 12" waffle square. Well, I say 12" but actually its more like 10.5" x 12.5" BUT, on the plus side, it will stretch to a 12" so hopefully it'll be ok.

Fucking stupid SLEEP app woke me at 6 this morning, I didn't get to sleep until after 4. I can't stop it going off, even DELETING the fucking app didn't work. So I reinstalled it, set it for 'weekend' everyday, which is SUPPOSED to do sleep analysis only. Set it for 14:00 (figured it could do no harm at that time) and didn't turn it on. But it STILL went off at 6. I have tried removing it again - deleted it from the phone, from the iPad, switched them both properly off, checked the settings, neither showing the App. If this doesn't work, I'm going to cry!

No knitting yet, I'd only end up frogging. Need more first.

Morning woollies

Pop sign your MIL up to MN, no bloomin age barrier

She could be PopswonderfulMIL - then we'd all know her

Passes Chip

Knotty she's still reading this- I just got a proper bollocking by text for "making lewd comments when I should be still in bed" . She's only half serious- we get on like a house on fire!

Morning!
I am sat in dressing gown, finishing off a cup of tea. Having knitted half a square whilst watching breakfast news.
My list looks a bit like FairyFellows :)
washing in
ironing to do

trip to allotment to dig up leeks to make soup .
Then knitting.
I don't have to make tea today though

forgot to say Chipping - horrible , horrible alarms ...... and if not already swilling from K&P

Just off to PMS, may be a while

Just catching up on all the wonderful squares. I am afraid I am very time poor at the moment, so have only managed three 6" squares and started a 12" square this morning. i'm now at work, unfortunately, but it doesn't look as if I'll need to be here too long.

Two quandaries i need help from you wonderful hookers and knitters:
First, I'm doing a 12" c2c. I want to do a tricolour one. What colours go best with the saffron? Oranges? greens? or something else. I'm not very good with colour combinations.

Second quandry, do I crochet this evening or do my tax return? Obviously one is vair, vair important and the other is just money, so simple decision really

Ok I am pleased to announce that I just managed this one! Thanks to Firefly

Do your tax return. When you get through to the last screen you have earned #truefact

Captain I would try orange and turquoise, but that's just me!

Jet fab!

Another lovely donor to thank - woolly wool has landed with your crafter, you star xx

PrimroseMill

K&P and BookBook. Thank you for . I don't 'do' being woken up by alarms, it makes me grumpy even after more than 2 hours sleep. My body clock is good, I don't need an alarm. Can you tell I'm still not over it's nasty ways! 😂

K&P. They look fab and plentiful!!

BookBook. I love leek soup, what time shall I pop over?

Captain. Beware of the POP, she will always say orange 😂 But she's probably not wrong this time. Oh & yes. Tax return & 🍷 Knitting afterwards of course. if you're my mother, if you're me, knit knit knit last minute tax return panic

I'm new to Woolly Hugs on here but just wanted to say thank you for my yarn donation - it arrived today.

Have already made a start on a few squares using some leftover dk.

I've never made granny squares before so have ordered a book from the library to get me going.

Chipping