Wednesday 17 July 2019

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.


Sunday 7 July 2019

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.