Woolly Hugs. Remembering our wonderful TQ. Can anyone help us?

[KnottyAndPistey]

Our lovely TQ. TwitterQueen. We thought the world of her, she touched the lives of so many and we were all better for it. It was absolutely devastating when she died from ovarian cancer. Fuck cancer. Life was epically cruel to this beautiful woman.

We send our love and thoughts to her wonderful girls of whom she could not be more proud, her love for them shone like the brightest star, and we think of all who love and miss her everyday. We will remember TQ with hearts full and a big smile as we recall her in a dinner plate sized super sparkly badge at our Hugathon in September 2018. Epic!

She was a MNer for many years and will be sorely missed by so many of us here. The love and support she gave to so many folk on the cancer support thread was quite extraordinary, even when she was so ill herself. We were constantly in awe of this wonderful, thoughtful, super intelligent, caring, bloody funny woman. She sought to raise awareness of ovarian cancer which is often called the 'silent killer'. She really wanted more women to be aware of what few symptoms there are and in doing so undoubtedly saved lives.

How lucky we were to know her

We have offered each of her three daughters a blanket and are so glad they have all accepted, so glad we can all give them a great big Woolly Hug, especially after all the blankets TQ contributed to over the years, she worked so hard to bring comfort to others, whether it was our Mumsnet Woolly Hugs, Candy’s Hugs for women going through treatment for cancer or our ‘Chernobs’ Her compassion was endless. It really is time for her family now.

We hope that you can help us.

Squares to be six inches, using 4mm needles or hook. Please knot off VERY carefully when finishing or changing colour and sew your ends in, thank you! Previous blankets can be seen on our website

The Yarn we are Using….
Artesano Superwash Merino DK
Debbie Bliss Rialto DK
Drops Merino Extra Fine DK
Jenny Watson Pure Merino DK
Katia Merino 100% DK
King Cole Luxury Merino DK (new this time)
Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK
Patons Merino Extrafine DK

Now the colours, please pay attention as obviously we are making for three DIFFERENT blankets here. TQ would have nailed this! Just sayin

For J - pink and dark and light purple
For P - dark and light purple
For R - pale blue and pale yellow (just Drops merino extra fine DK no 24 ‘light yellow’)

We can do this folk, please just be careful putting colours together

The initials and if you can, please do - TQ, M. P, J and R

Simple or complex, made by beginner or expert, we genuinely welcome them all. It really is the love and thought that counts.

The lovely poster @Shelovesmilktray was friends with TQ for over 25 years and has been very helpful linking us up with her girls. We are truly grateful to her, thank you

When ready for posting, it will be the Teddington address, if you would like to include a card for TQ's daughters please do.

Raising a few glasses to TQ. We miss her.

Winter that square is amazing!!!

which blue did you use please?

Aw thanks @ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba. 😊The blue had lost its label but I think it was probably Drops #19.

The bottoms of those ears aren't manky enough for a cocker spaniel (makes mental note to book SoupDogg into the groomers)

It's great :)

Haha @SoupDragon 😂, you are right, bit restricted by the yarn specifications!

that's perfect Winter, thank you.
that's one of the colours I have so I will use it as well x

I have some wool and will see what I can rustle up, colourwise

I'm on it but may be will have to pm for some more yarn, I'm just sorting through my stash.

First one done already

It is drops yellow 24 but looks darker thanks to my crappy living room lights

@bookbook. Total faith 😊

@Wintersnowdrop. That’s a fabulous square, I’m massively impressed!

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba the insomnia is a double edged sword! I get more hours per day than most,but less energy than most! I need to learn to power nap I think 🤣

Lovely squares on the thread so far, and @Wintersnowdrop wow!

I've managed three this weekend, two for TQ's daughters and 1 for Twittlebee. Got a couple of hopefully quiet hours coming up on Wednesday, so hoping to do another one or two then.

Morning lovely people

Lets have a pic of Soupdogg then!

Lovely knit there @goldplatedtoilet - looks beautifully snuggly

@Wintersnowdrop that is so cute!

Love all the themes @Wintersnowdrop thank you for that, the girls came back just with colours but any of these would be wonderful.

I was going to do a glass of wine on mine as I know she loved a riojjjjja

There are no photos of SoupDogg that show the full extent of the Great Ears of Mankiness

First set of squares for TQ daughters .
I hope you can see four hearts - with much love in the stitches .
The next lot will take a bit longer , have a bit of construction to do with those - thought to do flowers to match the ones we made earlier .
Winter - beautiful square

@bookbook those are beautiful squares.
@Wintersnowdrop love the spaniel.

My squares will be very simple ones.

Thank you Okki :) -
how are you? ( and how is the dog v yarn contest going? )

Thank you for all the Spaniel complements 😌.

Morning all. Just sorting the yarn donations. In the post today xx

Those are beautiful and that’s such a lovely thought @bookbook

I do 💝 getting my orders from Wool Warehouse. It’s such a joy!

I’ve ordered some of the newly permitted KingCole, so I’m interested to see how that feels/knits up. I usually buy the Drops Merino, but I loved the pink & purple in the KC so thought I’d give that a go

I prefer Debbie Bliss Rialto DK but that involves getting my yarn in substandard packaging! 🤣

It was such a shame I didn’t have any suitable yellows or pinks and had to order some 😚

• Red for - FRT’s in the correct yarn!!

• ...you can never have too much Drops 19 or silver... and one simply must have some fresh purple....

Lottery ticket purchased for the ‘Woolly Retreat’ cabin! X

Will post tomorrow or Friday. Squares with much love.

My wool has arrived, thank you!