Zombie and Woolly Hugs. Please join us, newcomers very welcome. Come and find out about Candy's Hugs.

[KnottyAndPistey]

Her legacy of Candy's Hugs will be one of love and strength, of coming together to show compassion, support and give and receive comfort.

Seven blankets already with women on the rocky road of cancer treatment in Candy's name. Love in every stitch we say and it really is true. Together we go on, Candy is with us every step.

For anyone joining us, and please do, this is an ongoing project, just jump right in, this explains what we are doing and all crafting info. Thank you EVERYONE! x

Just before Christmas, Zombie donated funds to Woolly Hugs and together we hatched a plan to develop an ongoing project with her, which she loved, 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.

So glad we could establish Candy's Hugs with her and thanks to you wonderful people achieve her ambition of seeing it all well underway before her death. Her legacy of Candy's Hugs will be one of love and strength, of friendship, learning and developing crafting skills, of creativity, of coming together to show compassion, support and give and receive comfort, Such a beautiful inspirational woman. How lucky we were to know her.

Anyone seeing this project for the first time, wondering about joining in, make this the day you do! This project is ongoing, and a friendlier more supportive bunch of folk you couldn’t wish to meet. 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.

Our previous threads are the first one here and the second one here.. and third here

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We are keeping a photo album on our Facebook page.]] All welcome to join us over there too.

Zombie was a bright and beautiful woman so we chose a palette to reflect this which we call Vibrant Riot; it is inspired too by a blanket that was made for her to give hugs and comfort as she went through treatment. She had it with her at the end, we were so glad to know it still gave her love, big woolly hugs and comfort.

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 all on this thread 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 next collection date is March 11th, then April 22nd. 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. ALL welcome over there.

Thank you so much

agree, its lovely - its such a pretty pattern :)

If anyone would like to find their way to the new Chernobyl project thread it is over here!

The end crept up on us somewhat

On my way!....

Just a few more squares from the last couple of days. Have been alternating squares for Candy Hugs with Refugee squares. Some squares are neater then others but should have a load to send. My C Section is booked for 3 weeks time so will get as many done as possible and will send before the arrival.

Well done Nerr. We will have to thank the LittleSnerr for being a bit of a pickle & putting you on bed rest! How are you feeling? 🍫🌸

On the final countdown Nerr! They're lovely squares. Fingers crossed that the next few weeks go without too many problems

Lovely squares Nerr - useful that C section coincides with last posting !

Hello everyone < waves> : took a break from posting , RL got in the way, but still did the occasional 'lurk' to admire the lovely creations !

Thrilled to spot some of my squares in the latest Candy Hug blanket : thank you to Gemma T from the wonderful Construction Crew.
Am doing less MN- in and more knitting, so should have some some offerings to pop in the post soon. xx

Knitters... maybe for after the Chernobyl deadline... but some of these look good. £Free if you hand over your email address.

ooooh Spindelina - they look lovely - have signed up....:)

should really learn to walk before I plan all this running

They do look lovely don't they! 1 and 4 are grabbing me.

hah! 1, 4 and 7 here - though 1 is done in the round - my least favourite way of knitting :)

Challenge, you say? Something I've never done before, you say?!

looking good - what a lot of hard work! - though the lace looked more complicated, and with a lot more peskies

The lace is much much slower, so I'm taking a break from that while I do stuff for Chernobyl. I've got lacy things in the planning too though .

Morning loves

Posted two more Candy's Hugs yesterday, one was going to someone who is very unwell indeed and very likely now coming to the end of her life. She is a young mum with little children. So bleak, desperately sad, just bloody awful, beyond words really isn't it? And yet what we are doing is so positive and full of love, sending a vibrant riot, colour and hugs to her at this time, and especially at this time, and the whole family, it is very special indeed.

No idea if that makes sense, can all be rather overwhelming. Need to harness our Zombie's strength

We crack on, another request, for another young mum

Life is just too unfair , isn't it?
You are doing a great thing, along with Candys legacy .
I will have some squares to post next week, along with some other bits and bobs , and will be back on it properly when Chernobyl is done xx

Oh that is horrible, poor lady and her family. So very unfair.

I've got a few squares here from before I started on Chernobyl.

That's so sad, K&P.

Spindelina, aargh! That makes me want to run away! Looks terrifying

Yiayoula, hello there! Here's a pic of what I did with your lovely wool (and some of my less lovely wool!).

That poor lady I hope her remaining days, however many they may be, are filled with love. Life really is unfair.

I just wanted to come on and say thank you so so much on behalf of my son BathsLad, whose Candy's Hug arrived this morning. It's beautiful.

Bathsheba

Bathsheba I'm sure I speak for all of us, no matter how we contribute, when I say that we're all just glad and happy that its bringing him, you and all your family so comfort. Love and hugs and prayers xx

Some comfort that should say sorry xx