Zombie and Woolly Hugs. OVER HERE!! Come and find out about her legacy of Candy’s Hugs, newcomers and old hands, all very welcome

[KnottyAndPistey]

Welcome to the most beautiful corner of Mumsnet, here the love and support is boundless, these are the folk you need to be around, come and join us, you'll not regret it :) Our inspiration comes from the wonderful Zombie, a true legend who continues to inspire us.

We knew her time left with us was short, but the news of Zombie’s death on January 30th was still a shock, we send so much love to her family and her many, many friends who love and will miss her greatly, we hold our happy memories of her very dear. Bless her.

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. X

So many blankets with beautiful women going through treatment now because of your love and support. Thank you doesn't even come close. xx

Raising a glass or two to the fabulous Zombie, we go on together

Anyone seeing this project for the first time, wondering about joining in, maybe a bit unsure, 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..

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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 xx

Do you think K is telling us to post to P and vice versa?

I've messaged them on fb , so will wait and see -right and left hand springs to mind - . Mind you, they have been busy....!

Curiouser and curiouser !

We changed our minds about where to have the squares delivered!

And forgot to change the website

But we've spoken this eve and think this is too much for one to receive as it's gone a bit viral. So the absolute answer now is send to

Either

Anyone who has messaged today has been told south coast, tomorrow we will say Teddington! It actually doesn't matter but we do now think we both need to receive these squares.

Does this help?!

We have never known a Woolly time like it. Hundreds of messages and emails.

Because folk are amazing, so thank you xxx

Ohh I could send a square to each address

Have changed the webpage now to say

Please post to either the Teddington or South Coast address, we are sharing receiving squares, but no worries we will bring them altogether for sorting, please message if you need. Thank you.

And now off to messages! x

Do it Chaz

My mum's woolly hug arrived and she's absolutely delighted. Thank you all so so much. She's absolutely overwhelmed with your kindness and she asked me to pass on her thanks and also her compliments on your beautiful talents.
Time is quickly running out, it won't be long now, and you've all made her smile, so thank you all so very very much.

Well...my husband is taking a day's holiday today so suggested we went out for breakfast.
The place he suggested is just about next door to a beautiful yarn shop which has an amazing choice of Stylecraft....so after we'd eaten I left him on a bench in the sunny town square and went and added some more Manchester shades to my stash.

Thanks, K& P : how marvellous that you are getting such a huge response on this one .
Hope you have lots of on order to help you through !

I attempted taking my knitting out to the garden, as it's such a lovely day , but kept closing my eyes and nodding off losing concentration....

Saor : thinking of you and your Mum xx

Saor
for you and your mum

Saor - I only wish the blanket could do more than make her smile. Thinking of you, your Mum and family xx

Thank you all, I wish we could do more too. But these wonderful blankets and all the goodwill, kind thoughts and love that goes into them are something very special indeed. You are all wonderful

For you and your Mom, Saor, I'm thinking of you both

In the post today

Squares for Juan Potato

Squares for Manchester Childrens Hospital (diverted from Candy's Hugs - hope she wouldn't mind)

Squares for Candy's Hugs

Aiming to get some more ready for next deadline

For you Saor and your mum

So much love goes into these blankets, I hope it gives your mum comfort.

You're all so kind, it really made her day and she's loving the blanket. She says you can feel the love that goes into them and it gives her strength xxx

Saoranf your mum xxx Thinking of you both

Evening folks
just popping in to see how things are.
Just on 12" square #3 for Manchester - will be back on Candys when I've done. :)

@KnottyandPistey I have a quick question...I just received a Candy blanket kit but am not sure the dimensions will be right
I have the equivalent of 71 6" squares, so I can do a blanket of 7x10 with one left over but I thought we were aiming for 8x10 (48"x60")......what should I do???? I could do 7x6" extra squares??

Attached should be a pic of all the squares and a possible 7x10 layout

Argh not 7 extra, 9!