Our Sewing Ladies

We have an incredibly talented group of sewing ladies who work with donated wedding dresses. The amount of work they put into transforming dresses into items for Angel Babies is mind blowing.
I'm sure you will agree the final results are stunning.

Recent Donations

We have so many kind members who give their time and resources to create beautiful makes.

All donations are sent to a central point and then donated to where they are needed based on requests.

We are pleased to be able to help so many babies.

World Prematurity Day

Today (17th November is World Prematurity Day.

Globally, an estimated 15 million babies are born prematurely each year and that number is rising.

World Prematurity Day helps to address this concern and improve the situation of preterm babies and their families.

On the 17th November, help us to raise awareness of this meaningful day by joining us in lighting a candle.

This year we have sent out over 3000 purple items to various hospital units around the UK to help them to celebrate today and to raise awareness to premature births .

October Crochet Challenge - Newborn Hats

Our October Crochet Challenge is going strong.

We challenged our members to crochet hats for newborn babies and there are some amazing makes ....

Homeless Hat Challenge

Winter is coming and for people without a regular place to call home it can be a cold, wet miserable experience.

This month we are making hats that will be donated to a homeless charity.

Our members continue to be very generous with their time and wool!

How to join us .......

We have amazing members who help us in so many ways. 

We are a friendly group of people with a common goal of helping people and are always looking for new members to help in whatever way they can.
	A lot of us have never met each other in person but chat regularly online. Others of our group don't chat and simply make and send. Either way is fine!
Members knit, crochet, sew, donate items for us to use as fund raising or raise postage funds for us.

If you are interested in joining us please follow the link to our facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/needlesandhooksangelandpreemies/?fref=nf

October Sewing Challenge - Fat Quarter Sheets

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our sewers are making sheets from fat quarters

Our initial target is 150 ....... will we do it?????

Mamma That Makes Itty Bitty Hat Drive 2019

We are so grateful to the Mamma that Makes blog for making us one of their official organisations to send donations to for their 2019 Hat Drive.

They are generously uploading a daily hat pattern too.

Their blog is worth checking out - it contains lots of great patterns!

6 - 8th September Boob Challenge

We had an impromptu boob challenge this weekend and asked members to knit, sew or crochet boobs.

These are used to help new and expectant Mums with Breastfeeding.

We were delighted when between us we made 190 over the weekend and the total is still rising.

Several sponsors pledged donations ranging from 2p per boob to a fixed amount.  This will help fund postage to send our boxes of donations to where they can help the most.

September Sewing Challenge - Walker Bags

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our sewers are making walker bags

Our initial target is 50 ....... will we do it?????

Thank you NHAP

While we are always very grateful to the members who help us by making things and fund raising to support postage costs, the hospitals we help are also grateful.

August Challenge Totals

Our August Challenges were crochet cardigans, sewn NICU Smocks and knitted Trudi Hearts.

We blew all our targets away and received

201 Cardigans
226 NICU Smocks
624 Trudi Hearts

Thank you to everyone who contributed

Recent Donations

We have so many kind members who give their time and resources to create beautiful makes.

All donations are sent to a central point and then donated to where they are needed based on requests.

We are pleased to be able to help so many babies.

2019 Sewing Angels Twiddle Challenge

Our Sewing Angels have just completed an additional challenge of making 50 Sensory/Twiddle Mats to help people with dementia.  

Members could sponsor the challenge if they wanted to to try and raise much needed postage funds.

They made 91 between them and raised £70 towards Postage Costs.

Thank you to all that pledged to this fabulous Challenge and to the Sewing Angels for giving their time and resources to make these items.

Pledges still being accepted.

Recent Donations

We have so many kind members who give their time and resources to create beautiful makes.

All donations are sent to a central point and then donated to where they are needed based on requests.

We are pleased to be able to help so many babies.

August Crochet Challenge - Cardigans

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our crocheters are making long sleeved cardigans

Our initial target is 50 ....... will we do it?????


August 12th Update ....... We've smashed it ... we currently have 105 cardigans! Amazing

August 18th Update ... We now have 146 cardigans.  Our members continue to be incredible! 

August Knitting Challenge - Trudi Hearts

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our knitters are making Trudi Hearts, these are used in Angel packs and are in tribute to one of our Admin Team who sadly passed away recently.

As you can see our initial target of 100 has already been raised to 200!

11th August Update .... Our target has been raised to 300 and we currently have 273 Trudi Hearts ... maybe another rise will be necessary!

18th August Update ..... Our target has been raised again, we are not aiming for 400 and have 386, brilliant!

August Sewing Challenge - NICU Smocks

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our making NICU Smocks

Our initial target is 100 of each ....... will we do it?????

August 11th Update ... we currently have 93 smocks! Well done everyone!

August 18th Update ... we currently have 128 smocks.  We are delighted!

Recent Donations

We have so many kind members who give their time and resources to create beautiful makes.

All donations are sent to a central point and then donated to where they are needed based on requests.

We are pleased to be able to help so many babies.

July Sewing Challenge

FINAL TOTAL ....... The final numbers for this challenge were 249 bibs and 126 burp cloths - brilliant!| thank you

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our sewers are preparing for Christmas by making Bibs & Burp Cloths

Our initial target is 100 of each ....... will we do it?????

July 7th Update .... we have 49 items, some are shown below

July 17th Update .... we have 95 bibs and 61 burp cloths - thank you all

July 27th Update ... we have 179 bibs and 126 burp cloths - amazing

July Knitting Challenge

FINAL TOTAL ...... The final total for this challenge was 1241 stockings - absolutely brilliant! Thank you to everyone

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

Each year we send out hundreds of packs including hats and stockings to bring a bit of Christmas cheer to in hospital all over the country.

This month our knitters are making stockings

We are preparing early so we have plenty packs to go out.  These stockings will go with the hats in the crochet challenge.

Our initial target is 500 stockings

July 7th Update ..... we now have 352 stockings

July 17th Update ..... our target has been increased to 750 stockings and we currently have 709 - amazing

July 27th Update ..... our target has been increased to 1000 stockings and we currently have 916 - just incredible!

July Crochet Challenge

FINAL TOTAL ..... 828 hats.  Just incredible!  Thank you

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our crocheters are preparing for Christmas by making hats

Our initial target is 500 hats ....... will we do it?????

July 7th update ... we have 138 hats some are shown below, they are gorgeous

July 17th update .... we currently have 380 Christmas Hats - well done everyone!

July 27th update .... we currently have 663 hats - brilliant!

June Challenges Update

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

In June we decided to make a head start on our preparation for World Prematurity Day in November by making Purple items.

We broke every target that we set and are overwhelmed by the amazing support from our members.



Knitting Challenge - we asked our members to make purple teddies and initially wondered if we could hit a target of 200 bears ..........

Our total at the end of June was 304 bears! Amazing!!






Crochet Challenge - we asked our members to make purple hats and initially wondered if we could hit a target of 300 hats .........

Our total at the end of June was 1540 hats.  Incredible!!




Sewing Challenge - we asked our members to make purple bunting and initially wondered if we could hit a target of 100 strings of bunting ......

Our total at the end of June was 134 strings of bunting! Fabulous!!


I'm sure you will agree that we are incredibly lucky with the amount of support we get from our brilliant members.

Recent Donations

We have so many kind members who give their time and resources to create beautiful makes.

All donations are sent to a central point and then donated to where they are needed based on requests.

We are pleased to be able to help so many babies.

June Sewing Challenge - Purple Bunting

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our sewers are preparing for World Prematurity Day in November by making Purple Bunting

Our initial target was 100 strings of bunting  .... it's only June 23rd and we have 111!!

Thank you everyone

June Crochet Challenge - Purple Hats

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our crocheters are preparing for World Prematurity Day in November by making Purple Hats

Our initial target was 300 hats .... it's only June 17th and we have 734!!

Thank you everyone

June Knitting Challenge - Purple Teddies

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our knitters are preparing for World Prematurity Day in November by making Purple Teddies

Our target is 200 Teddies .... it's only June 17th and we have 169

Thank you every one

Angel Packs

Losing a baby, through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, leaves parents lost in grief and full of unanswered questions. 

We can provide an Angel gown, Blanket, Hat, Bootees, crib(for early loss babies) teddies and other memory items.  Even our tiniest babies deserve dignity.


To request one of our  packs please email us  

Needleshooksangelandpreemies@outlook.com 

N.H.A.P@outlook.com

or follow this link

https://needleshooksangelsandpreemies.com/request

Here are images of some of our Angel Boxes.

More from our Amazing Sewing Ladies

We have an incredibly talented group of sewing ladies who work with donated wedding dresses.  The amount of work they put into transforming dresses into  items for Angel Babies is mind blowing. I'm sure you will agree the final results are stunning.

You can see more details about how dresses are transformed here
https://needleshooksangelsandpreemies.com/wedding-dress-to-angel-gown

Donations Thursday 30th May

Some of today's fabulous donations.

Thank you Marilyn, Kate, Elizabeth, Sue, Michelle, Sue, Angela and  Lesley.

We are very grateful for your support.

May donations update

With two days left in May we have received ...

8216 handmade items
2153 purchased and donated such as children's books, toiletries, hygiene items

These donations have come from 356 kind members.

We are so very grateful for all the support.

Donations and update Tuesday 28th May .....

We have had two lovely donations today.

We have also sent out 9 hospital boxes, 2 preemie care packages and 6 angel packs.

Thanks to all who support us, we couldn't do it without you.

Our Sewing Ladies

Here at NHAP we are very lucky to have some incredibly talented seamstresses who turn donated wedding dresses into gowns for Angel babies.

Some of our May donations .....

We are very grateful to our members for making items to donate.

Here is a look at just a few of our beautiful donations.

Thank you!

May Knitting Challenge - Angel Gown Sets

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our knitters are making Angel Gown Sets.

Our target was 100 Angel Gown Sets ....

We have raised the target so 150 sets .....

May Sewing Challenge - Port Pillows

Every month our members can participate in a voluntary knitting, a crochet and a sewing challenge.

This month our sewers are making Children's Port Pillows.

These are padded pillows that are used in incubators to keep tubing away from a baby's skin.  They can also be used for cancer patients to keep seat belts or straps away from port lines.

Our target was 250 pillows ....

With a few days of May left we have smashed the target with over 300 port pillows .....