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

I'm in. Definitely have some stylecraft in one of the colours so will get hooking... Hurrah for Woolly Hugs and for Zombie

I've shared that status Zombie, might hopefully attract a few people with actual talent

What a wonderful idea. I saw this on Facebook and it prompted me to join Mumsnet just to join in with this.
I have loads of DK wool, but none of this make. Do you have any I can have? Also, where do we send the knitted squares to?

Morning
Just getting the day underway here and will be back to help. Thanks all. X

Ive followed Zombie's journey and also lurked on the WH threads for years without being confident to join in.

I tried to teach myself to crochet last year and gave up although managed a granny square so this is the impetus I needed to start again!

I haven't a clue about wool so if someone could send me some it would be greatly appreciated.

A granny square is perfect, so glad you are on board 2gorgeousboys, that's fabulous, could you message us your address please? Just about to sort the rest of the folk needing yarn. Thank you xx

I would like to have a go at this, knitting is useful for keeping my hands off the wine bottle so thats a win win situation!
Will order some wool and see if i can remember how to do it

Norks knitting.

RedRosie is the Woolly Hugs Poet Laureate (patent pending) :)

She pens a little ditty
Tis always very witty
Très bien at knit
Although she says she is shi not very good at it

stephiehelen

You have a PM from us, if you look up the screen, top right, click on MyMumsnet and go to inbox.

Thank you

What in inspiration Zombie is . Will get knitting..

Would love to contribute to this.
Will see if I can get the yarn here in NZ and then dig out my crochet hooks- very much a beginner I'm afraid. If I can't get the yarn would love to donate funds. How do I go about that?

Ooh i have ordered wool, cant wait to get started now, its 21 years since i knitted anything

Thanks all, chur - we are very happy to post to NZ if you can't get yarn, not a prob xxx

More amazing donors to thank, how wonderful you are, we appreciate every penny, yarn is already on the way to crafters who will make something very beautiful from you both.

DramaAlpaca
Ghostyslovesheets
MM
Milliways
Mouseinahole
unbornmortifocardo
CTK
EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans
cozietoesie

Heartfelt thanks xxx

Has anyone got a picture of Vibrant Riot done on pegs with the names next to the colours please? (I have 3 pegs with random wool wrapped round them, and no names, because one day I planned to be organised and then it all went to shit)

Having very recently lost a wonderful friend to breast cancer, I would love to contribute in honour of her. I can't knit or crochet for toffee but would love to contribute wool to someone who has the skills I lack.

I have some of those colours in my stash, so I'm in

Here you go, hazeyjane.

Sorry - I didn't see one of the pegs had flipped over. Here's a better one.

I have just ordered some more yarn from Wool Warehouse, so I can keep on making squares for the ongoing project.

Wool ordered - I already have a bunch of hooks. I hope I can start these early next week.

How precise do the measurements need to be? Have crocheted a granny square which is about 14 cm per side, but if I do an extra row, it's going to be several cm bigger. Is it okay as it is? It seems easier to be more precise with plain rows.

How does a non-knitter go about donating for wool for for whatever will help with this? I would really like to.