Woolly Hugs. Making a blanket for lovely Crazyladee and her family. We need help.

[KnottyAndPistey]

You may have heard the dreadfully sad news that Crazyladee’s beautiful son died suddenly aged just 24. Bless his heart. Life has been very cruel to him and them all. We send Crazyladee, his younger brother and their family our love and are so sorry.

We are so glad that she has accepted our offer of a Woolly Hug, we hope it may give whatever comfort it can. There will be love crafted into every stitch. Crazyladee’s thread is here if you would like to leave a message if condolence.

So we are now asking for help once again

We need crocheters, knitters and donors (of funds or wool) Sincere thanks. If you would like to be involved in any way, please post on this thread and PM us with your offers: crafting, donating, need wool, etc, we can help you with all of it. If you have any yarn suitable from us for previous blankets please do use that. We can still get yarn out but it isn’t as straightforward or reliable as one was.

Thank you so much

The Colours
My son's favourite colour is blue, any shade - so please let us make this Woolly Hug a riot of blues.
Adding in silvers too.
Then traditional Goalie colours as accents or for embellishments but not whole squares
Brighter green
Yellow - please just use this one - Paton’s merino extra fine DK ‘Canary’ 00121
Oranges, one of these please, Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool DK - Pumpkin (373) orDebbie Bliss Rialto DK - Tangerine (56) or Debbie Bliss Rialto DK - Burnt Orange (43)

From Crazyladee..
His name is Alex - initials are AJT and his absolute favourite lucky number is 22 which was the shirt number of his favourite goalkeeper, Jussi.

Be lovely to have as many 22s as poss in a variety of forms, and we’d be grateful for his name and initials too

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
Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool
Patons Merino Extrafine DK

Just from the brands listed please because we know they combine for wash and wear. If you still have any of our wools that have been discontinued - Rowan Cashsoft DK, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK or James C. Brett Pure Merino DK in your stash, please do use them.

Our listed yarns are all easily available online - Try Wool Warehouse, Wise Badger, Laughing Hens

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

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! The last thing any of us want are squares collapsing once the blanket is with the family.

Because of the current situation re Covid, we have suspended posting to us until after June 1st and because getting yarn out to crafters will take longer we are looking provisionally at a last posting of July 1st.

When posting, it will be the Teddington address, please make sure you add your name and who the squares are for, and if you would like to include a card for Crazyladee’s family, please do, we will pass it on.

Sending so much love

That green is perfect @Bearfrills Thank you xxx

Everyone offering funds or those needing yarn. Will be matching up later. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much xxx

I will send some squares, I've got yarn already. Much love to Crazyladee and her family xx

I have suitable wool and I’m happy to knit some squares.
Hugs to crazyladee and family.

So sad. Please count me in for a couple of squares x

Morning all Woollies and thank you. Just off to PMs to help everyone

with much love in the stitches for CrazyLadee and her family

Those are really clever.

Perfect @bookbook

would it be too 'girly' to put a heart on as well ? What do you think @KnottyAndPistey

I'm in.

I think it would be lovely for his mum x

Thank you so much lovely @exerciseinmypyjamas xx

Your squares are so beautiful, book book.

Here are my squares for Alex and his family, made with love.

Are these colours blue enough? Or too green and purple?

Morning!

Okayyyyyy. So it’s actually afternoon :)

@BlueEyeshadow - do send it and we can see this end? It’s hard to tell. It’s very pretty. That’s for sure. Thank you x

@Zhx3! Look at those beauties!

square #2 , with much love in the stitches .
( I have added a heart to his name square :) )

My wool arrived today, so will start on a square once work is finishes at 5. They will be plain, boring garter stitch as am not a talented knitter sadly.

Book

Oh book, that really is perfect xxx

I will do a square or two for this one too. Just numbers and name/initials @KnottyAndPistey?

yes my love, thank you xxx