Zombie and Woolly Hugs. Our second thread! Come and find out about Candy's Hugs, all very welcome.

[KnottyAndPistey]

Welcome to our second thread, may it be as vibrantly riotous as the first!

Anyone reading this thinking Shall I? Can I? Yes you can! :) We would love to have you on board, from someone who is keen to learn crochet or knitting to the more experienced, ALL are welcome here. And a lack of funds is no barrier, we have wonderful donors who want to take part and need a crafter, so we can send you yarn, needles and hooks if necessary. It is all about being inclusive and team work.

So let's crack on!

This then a C&P of the crafting info from thread one.

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. wine wine 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, let's do it! 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! smile

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

More beautiful squares. Coffee I'm feeling inspired by yours, thanks for the link, I fancy doing come of those.
Did a bit more of a 12" c2c this morning, but not had much time yet. Will get crocheting when jobs/ taxi service completed.

I found the in out firefly this afternoon when I fed the sheep, a bit early

This in our field even

And the rest of our motley crew

Better one

Thanks Mrs Hathaway and bookbook and others for texture advice and websites. Managed to knit a stripey square this morning so I was ridiculously pleased with myself!
The recent squares pictured are lovely - great colour combinations and some of you are so quick!

Coffee where is the pattern for your first 12" id love to try that

Evening

Just attempting to catch up with you all

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeps!!!!!!!!

CaptainBraandPants Last posting for us is the day you go and post them to us

Knitting shows on Netflix????

Beautiful squares ahoy, just lovely

Bloody loves stripes Norks and how could we ever be annoyed? Never met a square yet that pisses us off

Is MN ridiculously slow for anyone else?

sigh

Five - That's so lovely.

We now have a thread that covers every aspect of Woolly Hugs - starting with your new lamb at the beginning of the wool cycle right through to the end product of the Woolly Hug blanket.

I love pics like that - they really put a smile on my face

This is my sat afternoon work. But I can't do all the fancy stuff !

LEM - the pattern for the middle is here but I have modified it a fair bit. My square is identical to the original pattern up until round 6, then after that I loosely followed this interpretation of the pattern (you may need to set up a Ravelry account to see that if you don't already have one) up to round 16, but made round 9 in back post stitches. After round 6 I just did my own thing for another 5 rounds to make it up to 12". Please feel free to try and recreate it from my picture, and PM me if you like and I will try to help!

Sorry, that should say after round 16 I did my own thing.

you see, that just sounds like double dutch to me . Need to get hooking, obviously!
K&P - yep, really, really slow. Gave up for a while altogether last night, think it crashed.

thanks coffee - what are the pist stitches?

LEM back post stitches are when you hook around the back of the stitch, around the upright bit (the post) rather than hooking into the top as you would usually do. `does that make sense or was I just waffling?
K&P thanks for clarifying the posting thing, want to get as many in as possible.
Coffee I have spent far too long this afternoon looking at that 2014 square a day site. So may beautiful squares to choose from...
Right, rather than looking at squares, think I need to go and crochet some now.

LEM - pistol ones are the ones we do after too many glasses of

post ones are behind the treble crochet which form a 'post'

No crocheting today, too busy. And probably not going to get any more done for the rest of the month now

But will start again after next weekend, promise!

I was a bit worried about what I'd done when I first saw your post, five. But, sheeeeeeeeeeps!!!!! Is it the mildweather confusing them?

pist ones, not pistol. Stupid phone!!!

FiveGMID thank you for the photos! They're gorgeous - I love sheep 💕

Coffee&Crochet. They're all fab, but I love the sunshine one best. I bought those colours to do together as well, so it's nice to see how well they work together.

I did this, this afternoon. Pesky's still to be done. I tried a new technique for them the last 4 colour changes. I don't like the finish so much, but no pesky'. Jury is out.

Saffron
Tomato
Lime
Petrol
Violet

bookbook - I really really really can't knit, so I think we're even! Your textured squares are lovely

LEM - as the others have said, back post stitches are where you put your hook around the vertical post, starting from the back of the piece. It means the top of the stitches in the row you are working into fold forward to give a lovely ridged effect, which you can see in the picture of my square in the first section of 'meadow', where it sort of frames the flower.

Here is a nice tutorial for back and front post stitches if anyone is interested.

Three squares done. I don't think I'll be ready for this deadline. When is the next one again please?