Oh yes, pity the poor postie

As he'd better get his blanket delivery arms ready!

The spoils of wool

Excuse me a mo' about to pop down to the post office, so thought I would share with you the reason why....

byeeee!

More glorious grannies - big and small, teddies and love are winging their way over to Japan.

Snuggly blanket with coordinating teddy

This blanket was super soft

A giant granny square blanket

Another giant granny square blanket

Super cuddly ted

teds and blankets just before being wrapped

Thank you ladies - once again you have made some gorgeous blankets and teddies, keep 'em coming!

Hi Ho off to the post office we go

Squares - courtesy of Angela - thank you 

Light coloured edging and red-ted -thanks to Jak

Dark edging and teddy in waistcoat - thanks to Gillian

Blankets, teddies, yarns and thank yous!

Update - We held Yarnival to help raise funds for postage and yarn and it was successful on both accounts!


So thought I would share some pictures - 

A woolly crochet blankie - warm and heavy

Thank you Gillian!

A snuggly blanket made by Jak (thank you!) with yarns from Fiona (thank you!)

And a cute teddy in the same colours (Jak)

A bobbly teddy - really squishy and cuddly (Jak)

Happy smiley kawai cuddlies for little people to love and hold. (Marta)

A Basket full of yarns (now distributed among the knit and natter ladies to crochet and knit)

Progress photos to follow.

There are more images of blankets and teddies - just need to charge my camera battery then will share :)

Thank you to all of you who've helped, crocheted, knitted, donated 

and spent time sending squares and yarns.

The Wall Street Journal and Yarn Alive with our blankets :)

Just look at this! Knitting with new friends

Such a wonderful story in The Wall Street Journal **- and some of our blankets (Marta!) are there - how precious to see them inspiring these woman.

Come on ladies - time to reach for that surplus stash and your hooks and needles and get crafting !


**Our blankets are shown around 2.13 - 2.20minute mark

We are off to a fibre festival

Yes we are!
We are holding a table to help raise awareness and get more squares coming in - so pop over to Yarnival to see what we are up to.

And - with apologies to Angela - some late sharing of photos of some gorgeously soft blankets - They are probably already in Japan!

Thank you - I love love love the colours - thank you so much Angela!!

Retrospective posting

Sorry that this is late - life has been rather hectic here and I have finally got round to adding some more photos of beautiful blankets and toys and a rather large bag of yummy squares which arrived yesterday.

These beautiful blankets have been made by Esther from Happy in Red - 

please pop over and say hello 

These two cute characters were kindly donated by a dear friend from across the road,

she felt strongly that a child's need for them far outweighed her own :)

And finally, another dear friend arrived with a large bag of squares 

(other supermarket bags are available!!) 

excuse me, I shall just go and count them........

110.... yes - one hundred and ten

Fantastic!

Thanks ladies yet again.

Update

Firstly an email from Christina (Japan Alive)

Wanted to inform you that we received the toys and blankets (3 packages).

Thanks so much! Once again the toys bring many smiles!! Look forward to distributing them!

All the best

then an update of blankets coming in - 

Esther - Happy in Red

Esther - Happy in Red

Lovely Lady - Threads through my life

Lovely Lady - Threads through my life - this one is still in progress.

I have toys waiting to go with these blankets, I've just looked outside the window and it is snowing - what better reminder than that to think about needing to be warm x

Thank you ladies xxx

going GOING GONE!

Bye bye - travel well - enjoy your new homes❤❤   (loving the seal's nose just peeping out)

Thank you Amy for responding - I have sent details.
Happy in red - ooh wonderful news about the blankets - looking forward to seeing it - thank you so much!
I love the autumnal colours - beautiful xx





Sorry such a brief posting, will catch up and give more updates soon but work sadly calls!

have a lovely weekend xx

❤❤ Latest to go and a request❤❤

Remember I mentioned in the last post that I'd received some lovely squares from Aileen? 

 I never managed to take photos of her yummy squares before they were whisked away by Marta to turn into a blanket.  After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing and discussing how best to use Aileen's squares - just look what gorgeousnous Marta has created from the original squares.................

Lovely!

Another scrummily warm blanket was created by Angela's squares and the dedicated piecing out and sewing by Gillian - the autumnal colours are brilliant - unfortunately the only picture I have does it no favours but trust me it looks wonderful :)

A few more cuddly toys are off too -

The lion is such a cute pudding of a toy he was nearly adopted by my boys, the other two are so tactile and fit nicely in little hands - I am sure they will be loved by who ever adopts them :)

These two characters have already gone, again they nearly missed being posted as my Youngest really fancied them - but bless him, he said that although he loved them he knew they were meant for other children who would need them much more.❤❤ 

Now a request - we have run low of squares and although we as a group are still making squares and blankets we would love❤❤  love❤❤  love❤❤  to have some more - the weather is definitely cooling down and a lot of families are still living in temporary housing and sadly some are still in makeshift shelters - can you imagine living like that and not being able to sleep warmly at night?

Even if you only have a few scraps of yarn left over from your last wip - please think of us and make a square or two!! 

Thank you!!

Off to the post office tomorrow!

Tomorrow, I am off to the post office with this little lot ....................

They are so soft and warm and a combination of Angela's square making and the dedicated sewing of Gillian, Carol , Marta and Ann  - thank you ladies your work will soon be off to their new homes :)


I have also just received some very pretty squares from - Aileen - thank you!! photos to follow soon :)

Back in business - ❤

Well, it has been a bit quiet on the blanket front, a combination of funding (or rather the lack of it for posting), other projects, life, children, work etc etc all seem to have contributed. But with some wonderful support from the ladies in our knit and natter group - we are 'back in business'

Last Thursday Angela  arrived bearing a box of squares and while I got all excited  she was quite nonchalant as to how many she had made - so that night at knit and natter we spread them out, in their colours and patterns and with much usage of fingers and pen and paper (then confirmed by calculator) Angela had made over 340 squares!


Already made blankets are returning to me - and more squares whisked away ❤

Chocolate and lime and ice-blues and dark - gorgeous!

Don't they look wonderful - Thank you Carol and Margaret for sewing together

and thank you again Angela for not only making the squares but painstakingly weaving in the ends too

Brilliant!

Have yourselves a lovely sunny Wednesday!

❤❤