Knit Your Square To Give Your Share 2009!

mioliere

Hi Shez - feel free to use the pattern anyway you want! Don't worry about copywrite - it's so simple that anyone could have made it up. I just followed the size, shaping and holes from the knitted one.

KathyXX

coolcarma

Hi guys

I'm a bit of a browser and don't usually post much but had to respond to this lovely thread. I used to knit a lot but got bored and a bit lazy in recent years . When I moved house recently I suddenly realised how much wool I had left from previous projects, all stashed in the back of various wardrobes and I promised myself never to let that happen again!

I donated all 6 kg of that wool to a charity which was knitting for war torn areas of the world so it was for a good cause. I am now a lady of leisure for a few months so what better time to start knitting again!

Thanks for inspiration....just need to find my knitting needles amongst my 30 boxes of stuff and some wool now...:rotfl:

Keep going everyone!

Carmen x

daffodiltulip

I think I've missed something. Mums, almost by definition, have them - why would it be more helpful to practise on knitted ones - possibly the most unrealistic way of emulating them!

daffodiltulip

Thanks for the pattern, Mioliere

mioliere

Hi Carmen and welcome to you! If you read the very first post on this thread, you'll find all the info you need to get going. I do hope you enjoy it here. Everyone will make you very welcome.

Daffodiltulip - I'm not sure how they help, but they are always in demand so the teaching must be very good!

KathyXX

smiler34

hi ladies just to say I think what you are doing is great. My mum and I knitted a bag of premie baby items last year after my daughter was in hospital cause we wanted to give something back to the hospital so just dropped them off at the SCBU at Halifax. I will try and fit some knitting in for this thread though as I think its a great way to give back to the community if you havn't got a lot of money, people often forget that time given is just as important. Good luck with your knitting all xx

mrs-moneypenny

re the knitted boobs, its far less embarrassing for a midwife to use a wool boob and a doll to demonstrate how to latch a baby on etc than to expect a new mum or pregnant lady to expose herself and be manhandled by the nursing staff.
I was talking to a collegue about what i was knitting and she had never heard of woolen boobs being used but said a friend of hers had been put off feeding herself when the midwife starting mauling her boobs to show how the baby show be fed and the position you should be in.

there is a link on the loving hands website to a news programme that was shown recently on tv about a lady that knitted them and it shows how they are used on there.

mioliere

Great post, Mrs Moneypenny - you've explained the boobs very well!

Smiler - welcome to you. You can still add your items to our totals, even if you send them to your local hospital. All our knitted and crocheted things go to various places and Shezmit will tell people what their local hospitals are in need of. We add all the items to our daily update, whatever charity or good cause they end up being sent to. Please feel free to add your Mum's name, too, if she would like. It's lovely to have newbies on here - the thread is becoming so busy, it's really heartwarming that so many people want to help those less fortunate.

Thanks to all of you.

KathyXX

mioliere

Me again! Just found some lovely baby patterns here! http://www.freepatterns.com/list.html?mode=list&offset=0&limit=21&status_id=A&cat_id=368

KathyXX

dpixie

shelly, i would love to try and make a preemie blanket, i have a lovely pattern (one that i got off the net, and i think i was created by roosevelds wife), but can you confirm what size is best and what colours you would prefer.

many thanks

dpixie