Knit Your Square To Give Your Share -IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS POST FIRST!!!

mioliere

Hi C1aire - thanks for the update; I will add your latest hat and PeckedHen's last two to the running totals. I'm glad your wool arrived and that you are now up and running!


Latest Update:

The first figures are for the STC (Save the Children) hats and the second is for the (IS) Innocent Smoothie hats which we can do in readiness for the go ahead of Sainsbury's next campaign.


MrsMoneypenny

15
6

R.Mac

3
2
1 pair of mittens

Catznine

3
1

Mioliere

8
3

C1aire:

7
1

Pol
6

Jellybeans
6

Seakay
2

Bellaquidsin
8

LilyMay (Mioliere's Mum!)
10

Pink.1970
3

Betheebee
3

Pippa.S
6
7

Chalky
8

PeckedHen
10

Total - SAVE THE CHILDREN (LOVING HANDS) :98 HATS & 1 PAIR OF MITTENS!
INNOCENT SMOOTHIE: 20

Pippa.S

:hello:
Hello all
I just thought I would share with you something that happened this afternoon.
My friend called in with her husband and 2yr old grand-son just after lunch,
we sat chatting for a while, then she saw the little hats I have finished on my dining room table, I thought she was going to cry, and was surpirsed as she is not usually like that, but it turned out that when her grand-son was born, he was so poorly and tiny he was in an incubator, and guess what, he was wearing one of the little sideways ribbed hats we are all knitting, and looking at him now as she said, its hard to believe one of those little hats ever fitted him.
So it feels even more special when I am knitting now

Anne
x

mioliere

Pippa - I'm so glad you shared that with us; it just goes to show how important the hats are. How lovely it must be to meet someone who actually wore one and obviously benefitted from it - makes it really worthwhile, doesn't it?

Kathy

jellybeans_2

Hello everyone

It's great to hear stories of the hats being used, thanks for sharing with us Pippa

I haven't knitted a hat for a couple of weeks... really want to this evening! But I keep starting projects and not finishing them... I'm really liking Loving Hands and am making a baby blanket for them atm... shall finish that then do a hat

Have a good weekend everyone

Jo xx

betheebee

Pippa, I have a daughter who was born weighing 2lb 2ozs, dropped weight to 1lb 10ozs and was in SCBU and on a respirator for a very long time, I was so worried, distraught and blinded with fear and everything else you could imagine, I didn't think about what she was wearing or where it came from. I am so pleased that now, however late I am, can give something to parents who may have to, or are going through sheer hell.

Sorry to have waffled on (Moilliere, I think you understand the reason why)

Pippa.S

betheebee wrote: »

Pippa, I have a daughter who was born weighing 2lb 2ozs, dropped weight to 1lb 10ozs and was in SCBU and on a respirator for a very long time, I was so worried, distraught and blinded with fear and everything else you could imagine, I didn't think about what she was wearing or where it came from. I am so pleased that now, however late I am, can give something to parents who may have to, or are going through sheer hell.

Sorry to have waffled on (Moilliere, I think you understand the reason why)

O beth I am sure all of us understand why.
It is when something comes close that we realise how important it is to help others in any way we can.
How old is your little one now?

Anne
xx

Pippa.S

mioliere wrote: »

Pippa - I'm so glad you shared that with us; it just goes to show how important the hats are. How lovely it must be to meet someone who actually wore one and obviously benefitted from it - makes it really worthwhile, doesn't it?

Kathy

Yes Kathy it really does.

Anne
x

betheebee

PIPPA, our DD is 25yrs old now, I know that there's so much more that can be done nowadays but even all those years ago the Med team fought for her as much as she did. I couldn't thank them enough. I was with her 24/7. I would lay my hands on the incubator and pray and pray. The prayers were answered, she was born 28th Oct '82, we had her home on 23rd Dec. She was rushed back in on 12th Jan with silent pnumonia and was on a life support machine, after 3 weeks we brought her home again, she is an angel, we are so close and I treasure every minute of her life.
Sorry to waffle but memories have a strange habit of dragging the emotions to the surface.

I will continue to knit the prem clothes even if the Wooligans cease to be, but I can't see that happening.

Mioliere, Please could you update my hats to 5.

Love to all Beth x

C1aire

Well, I had a productive coach trip - another five hats finished!

Peckedhen

Only two more from me. I got a tad adventurous and made a cable one and the broken rib one. They look good but took me longer to knit! Think I'm better sticking to the plain ones.:rolleyes: