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

mioliere

Good morning everyone!

Thanks, Catz - I will update the total in a mo!

Churchmouse - I'm so glad that knitting is helping your hands. It also seems to be good for my tendonitis as long as I don't try and knit as fast as I used to! I find it helps to alternate between knitting and crochet! I, too, am doing my own projects as well as the charity ones because I aim to make most of my Christmas and birthday presents this year! I have downloaded so many freebie patterns for presents that I have had to start a 'project' book to stop me starting too many things. I want to knit everything I see! Your own blanket made up of leftover 'squares' wool sounds like a brilliant idea. It's something I intend to do one day!

Sethsgran - thank you for joining us! If you follow this link http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooligan/ you can join our Yahoo group! We have finished the blankets of 8" squares but are still knitting 7" squares for OECS - if you look at the very first post on this thread, all the details are there. The 7" squares can be sent to any of the addresses in that first post. Our current challenge is to make 50 hats for babies which we are sending to Loving Hands www.lovinghands.org.uk (which we are joining individually - the lady who runs that, Lou, knows all about us! Have a look at the site; they do wonderful work and Lou is siging us all up as we join). They distribute baby clothing all around the world. Our initial target was for 50 hats but I think we'll exceed that in no time so, really, we can knit as many as we like - the need will always be there! They have lots of free-to-download patterns for baby items, not just hats; I thought we'd do hats as the next challenge after squares because some of the Wooligans have learnt to knit just to be able to join us here (which I think is amazing!) and I didn't want anyone new to knitting to have to go straight from squares to complicated shaping! Baby steps is always best at first!

When we complete a hat we post on here and then I try and keep a running total going so that everyone knows how we are doing. We also keep our own running totals going in our sigs and my sig also has the 'total so far'.

I do hope you join us and enjoy knitting. As I said, the need is always there and each item we make will bring comfort to someone in need.


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
6

R.Mac

1
1

Catznine

2

Mioliere

2
1

C1aire:

2


Total - SAVE THE CHILDREN:11
INNOCENT SMOOTHIE: 2
Kathy

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
just to let you know i've completed a square for naomi last night and made a start on my final one, i've got a couple of hours in limbo tonight so will remember to take my needles with me and should hopefully get it finished.

well done everyonne, we are all doing so well:T

catznine

I've made my first innocent smoothie hat! So quick to make and handy for using up little bits of wool!

mrs-moneypenny

well done catzine:T .

i've just found the smootie hat instructions
but wont knit any more hats till tonights square is complete and in the post to naomi, i keep getting side tracked by hats:o

C1aire

I'm just starting hat #5, please could someone update me? I've found a pattern that even I can follow - I think I might have to make myself one...

r.mac_2

I've finished another preemie hat (in a ballet pink colour!), but had to unpick my seam as it wasn't very pretty. Will try again later on when my revision is out of the way.

C1aire - what pattern are you using????

C1aire

This one r.mac. It's nice and easy because if you miscount the first chains, it doesn't matter, you only need to do something different with five stitches at one end.

And they look so cute when they're finished [goes all gooey and broody again]

elona

I posted 2 squares for smokey and three squares for HTA yesterday.

I still have loads of red wool and am finding knitting very relaxing.

Are the baby hats knitted or crochet as I am all thumbs.

Is there a site for the wooligans on Yahoo?

mioliere

Hi everyone.

Thanks for the update C1aire! I'll add it to the running total along with Catznine's smoothie hat! The smoothie hats are so quick to make, aren't they? I'm saving really tiny oddments of wool to make them.

I have just crocheted a 'baby swirl' hat but have no idea how to assemble it. It has no 'making-up' instructions; it has ended up a diamond shape (I don't think that's a mistake because you decrease at one edge and increase at the other) but no matter how I try I can't get it to look like a hat! I've had to put it to one side - I might ask my DH if he can work it out because it looks quite technical!

I have printed off that pattern, C1aire; thanks for the link. I'll have a go at that tonight. The broodiness keeps coming back to me, as well!

Anyway, off to 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
6

R.Mac

1
1

Catznine

2
1

Mioliere

2
1

C1aire:

5


Total - SAVE THE CHILDREN:14
INNOCENT SMOOTHIE: 3
Kathy

Kathy

ifonlyitwaseasier

ok, i have no idea how to knit a hat, who wants to try and teach me? bearing in mind i know one stitch to knit with