A warm woolly welcome to C2019! Chernobs ahoy!

[KnottyAndPistey]

We are absolutely delighted to be launching our Chernobyl Project 2019!

All help welcome, and needed! Some different info this year PLEASE READ if you are keen to take part in any way!

It’s all here.....

www.woollyhugs.org/2019/01/14/the-chernobyl-project-2019/

Please post below if you need help with yarn to be able to take part.

Not all groups host every year, but we are delighted to confirm the following for 2019…

Aberdeen
Ayrshire
Bristol
Chet and Waveney (Norfolk)
Fife
Gloucester/Glossop (children will be splitting their trip between these two)
Isle of Wight
Mid Suffolk
Northamptonshire (Helpston)
Shropshire (new to us!)
St Ives
Swindon

Let's get to it! The magic number of blankets needed this year is 135!

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!! xxxxx

5/135!
Another stunning Chernob blanket from lovely Maggie S. It’s just wonderful.

Thank you so much! xxx

6/135!

TQ!!

Wonderful treasure arriving. Thank you so much!!

Such a glorious Chernobyl project blanket. Beautiful xxx

7/135!
This stunning Chernob blanket is from lovely Nicola D, it’s glorious!

Thank you so much! xxx

Woollybacks wife you are so talented! Thanks for making such great use of the yarn.

Amazing blankets!

8/135!

Woohoooo! This beautiful blanket for our Chernobyl project is from lovely Christie B. Both she and it are fab-u-lous!

Thank you so much xxx

Oh my goodness I love the colours in number 8!

@Catmint you are too kind

Goodness me, these are wonderful!

Marking my spot, I am about a quarter of the way through a whole blanket. Those are some beauties finished already

I'm hooking as quick/often as I can, but life is just busy! On with #12 of 20 for my blanket .
Loving these blankets :)

Plonking myself on the sofa with hook in hand. Yarn arrived today, and all my other projects are ready for posting on Saturday, so will be starting on a blanket tomorrow.

Got a bit of catching up to do by the sounds of it!

Ooh, we're back

I've got 30 or so rows plus border of DS's horribly vibrant ripple to finish and then I'm all yours. Won't manage a whole blanket, but can definitely do some squares.

Morning!!

Stocked up on Stylecraft DK in the right colours this week and made six (6 inch) squares so far.

Newbie questions: is it more helpful for the construction crew to send in squares in smaller batches when done, or does it make no difference to wait until closer to the deadline?

viccat - I think its up to you in truth - any time to post up to the beginning of April gives some wiggle room . I tend to wait until I have a reasonable size parcel. If in UK , a small parcel, second class is £2.95 for up to 2kg, which is quite a lot ! . ( a whole blanket of 5 x 4 is usually anywhere from 1.5 kg to 1.8 kg and fits in the size nicely ) The dimensions of the parcel is 45cm x 35 cm x 16 cm . As I construct, and do other bits for WH , I tend to just send as and when , taking into consideration of any last post dates :)

Soup black cats are the way forward! Particularly good for contrasting against unnecessarily bright colours, although not too photogenic in themselves. My main problem is that when the blanket gets big enough, it appears to make a cosy bed, which stops me from finishing it - i need to set myself up to do Chernobyl squares when they're getting in the way!

although not too photogenic in themselves.

I take it all back! Mine are just rubbish - everything disappears into a sea of darkness. They're ridiculously affectionate though, so I'll forgive them. But I'll send them round to yours for lessons - he/she is lovely!

Come on my beasts, step up to the challenge!

We tried again and this was the best they could manage... So I think we'll leave cat photos to Soup and I'll stick to the crochet

@diamantegal - they've done a smashing job of posing you meany Mummy .

They all look like very cuddly snuggly cats.

To be fair, there are many other photos where you either have blackblob and proper background or a visible cat and washed out background :)

Ahh black cats, I adopted two black kittens last year. Here's one of them... (taking photos by windows seems to be the trick!)

Kitties!!

9/135!
An absolutely stunning Chernob blanket from lovely Andrea P, it’s glorious!

Thank you so much! xxx

10/135!
Such a gorgeous Chernob blanket from lovely Lorraine F with love for Ursula, it’s beautiful!

Thank you so much! xxx