The Blanket for FiveGoMadInDorset and her family, lovely folk, we need help.

[KnottyAndPistey]

Such sad news from lovely FiveGoMadinDorset, her wonderful DH died towards the end of July from the bastard illness which is cancer. We send so much love to Five and her two wonderful children, aged just 13 and 11. Cancer is so cruel, and we are so sorry they are now without him, we send huge hugs to all who love and miss him. Her thread is here… if anyone would like to post.

FiveGoMadinDorset is one of our brilliant Woolly Hugs’ crew, such a compassionate soul who has helped countless families on here and with our other projects too, it’s time for us to do something woolly for her now. We are so glad she has accepted our offer for a blanket for her and the children. Can you help us? We shall need crafters and donors alike.

Five and their children have had a think of ideas to help make this a real tribute to him, a true celebration, and there's lots we hope folk can tackle, but please don’t feel daunted, simple squares are needed too.

Their ideas...
The family’s initials are D, S, E and S. But they all called him by his nickname Titch

brought @Zhx3

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More beautiful woolly treasure has arrived, thank you so much to everyone, just gorgeous.

@PurpleFrog As seen up thread, these are beautiful, loving this pheasant, such gorgeous crochet, wonderful

@Zhx3 Her first contribution as a crafter after many many years as a donor, you've definitely cracked this! Beautiful traditional grannies in navy and mulberry. These are perfect!

@MrsJonesAndMe Super snuggly crochet, a lovely flower, grannies galore, wonderful. In blues and green.

@bookbook Super crocheted Captain America's shield and a stunning knit of the countryside, both pictured upthread too. Fabulous.

@BigApple11 Absolutely gorgeous! In pale blue, sage and a rich purple, beautiful treasure, circles to squares, flowers, grannies, stunning.

Thank you so much everyone, just wonderful xxx

We have more lovely donors to thank, either your yarn is with your crafter of funds with us, either way we are extremely grateful, thank you xxxxx

AG
Somerville

Bless you both xxxxx

Just seen this, what a lovely thing to do. I'm not adept with hooks and needles but would love to donate if you could pm me with details please. Love to Five and family from another Dorset girl. 💐

Yay. My wool has arrived. Many thanks to the donor. I shall get cracking.

Ah, glad they arrived!

Posted yesterday - for once I've managed not to leave it until the last minute!

Much love to Five and family

@Pantah630

What a lovely kind offer. ♥️

If you haven’t heard from anyone it’s becayse knotty & pistey do the work of about 10 busy people - at least. They don’t always see messages on the thread so it’s best to PM them. [You can do it direct from their post (3 dit’s on a phone) right hand end of name line on the web]

😊

Thanks spookily will do that now

Wool has arrived, beautiful shades of blue and purple I will get started tonight, thanks K&P

So sorry for not posting sooner on here, but I received a gorgeous ball of deep-denim coloured wool from a very kind donor and I've made three squares so far which I'll be sending across very soon xx

Afternoon lovely people. Squares arriving. Just making a brew.

Clearly we have the slowest kettle IN HISTORY

Firstly we have another lovely donor to thank, your generous funds are with us, and we are truly grateful

@Pantah630

And another gorgeous donor, thank you so so much, yarn has safely arrived and will be well underway

@Impatientwino

And more woolly treasure safely arriving with us, all absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so much for all you do

@SpiralArchitect Beautiful crochet in blues and purples, a gorgeous circle to square and super solid granny. Hope DD is getting on ok xx

CN Fabulous solid grannies and super snuggly garter knits in forest green and deep purple. Lovely.

@Whatsthatbrightlght Beautiful knits, gorgeous textures, so fabulous, in a silvery blue and forest green.

@MrsKCastle Such beautiful knits in a vibrant turquoise, gorgeously snuggly, fantastic!

@Ginisatonic Absolutely fabulous knits, so many rich textures, these are wonderful! In a deep purple and a fab duck egg, ooo and navy too, Am in awe!

All so wonderful! Folk are so incredibly talented, THANK YOU!

We never set a last posting date, but now all crafters have their yarn - how about Monday 25th November?

25th November is good for me. Life has got in the way rather at the moment, but I will be able to meet that deadline 😁

We know all about life getting in the way

Thanks lovely xxxxx

Here are my squares that I'll be sending tomorrow - a bluebird, a stag, a fancy granny square and the Librarian from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (basically an orangutan who says 'Ook!' a lot) 😊

Same here but I'm making special effort to get wool this weekend.

Beautiful treasure there lovely, thank you, and thank you Asking xxx

I still haven't posted, thread fell off TIO and I had to do a bit of detective work to find it again, will post ASAP.

Thanks so much lovely, thats great

A couple more packets here