Well - we are in the papers again folks! This week's Fife Free Press is carrying a photo of Meg and I with staff from the JRD Trust - and a load of our knitted boobies - again! Along with a story and details of the Kirkcaldy meeting and the Christmas Fayre! Hopefully this will result in lots of new members for the meeting and a good turnout for the Fayre!
Talking about the Fayre - please can you send in your donations for the crafts /tombola/ raffles etc this week as I will need to have them by Friday:0) The JRD Trust are going to do the teas and coffees for the event so we can concentrate on the main hall - thanks girls! :0) I can't wait for it all to be done so that I can take all these parcels to the post office and I can then maybe get the office decorated and the new floor laid! (I am still sharing the room with Winnie the Pooh wallpaper! Not very office like!).
OK - It is time to go home so I will get this posted - talk to you all again soon - we are now 80 strong and the Forum is going like a Fayre too - it is nice to have the opportunity to chat to you all and get to know you - if you haven't done so already why not hop over there and join up - you know you want to!
Friday 30 November 2007
Monday 26 November 2007
Latest news!
Sorry I haven't updated for a while guys - there has been so much going on here! We now have our own website http://www.lovinghands.org.uk/ It looks really great and there are links on there to take you directly to both the Forum and to here! Pam has also put in lots of patterns and links to other sites too and publicised our challenges and Christmas Fayre as well as the local meetings - what a star she is! Thanks Pam - you are a real treasure :0)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2007/10/16/babywear_patterns_feature.shtml
This is the new link to the patterns on the Ray of Hope site - Pam did want to publish some of the patterns on our web site but sadly Ray of Hope cannot give permission as the BBC did not like the patterns being reproduced elsewhere. Never mind you can still access the patterns to use for charity from the above link and the one on the web site.
We have had lots of photo shoots etc since I last published - the latest one just this morning for the Fife Free Press to advertise the Kirkcaldy meetings (Monday evenings 7-9pm in the JRD Trust, 9 The Esplanade, Kirkcaldy). And also the Christmas Fayre - 8th December 10am to 1pm in Kelty Church - remember girls if you have anything to donate for the craft stall, tombola or raffle we will need it to be here by the 7th December. We have already had some lovely things sent or handed in for the crafts stall and the raffle and tombola prizes are filtering through as well! If you live locally and can bake don't forget the cake and candy stall too! :0)
We now have 78 members on the books so hopefully we will get enough boobs and prem baby sets to meet the Christmas challenges - another 22 members and I will have reached my personal target of 100 members by Christmas day! The extra publicity from the web site and forum are certainly paying off as is all the press coverage we have been getting. We are becoming known up and down the country! Many thanks to all of you who have added links to our sites to other web based things you are on and your own personal Blogs - it all helps!
Right - it is getting late and I have been rushing about all day so I am off for a sleep before it all begins again in the morning!
Keep knitting!
Any donations for the Fayre, Christmas Challenge or any other charities we are collecting for should be sent in to us here at:-
Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group,
18 Clentry Crescent,
Kelty,
Fife.
KY4 0LG.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2007/10/16/babywear_patterns_feature.shtml
This is the new link to the patterns on the Ray of Hope site - Pam did want to publish some of the patterns on our web site but sadly Ray of Hope cannot give permission as the BBC did not like the patterns being reproduced elsewhere. Never mind you can still access the patterns to use for charity from the above link and the one on the web site.
We have had lots of photo shoots etc since I last published - the latest one just this morning for the Fife Free Press to advertise the Kirkcaldy meetings (Monday evenings 7-9pm in the JRD Trust, 9 The Esplanade, Kirkcaldy). And also the Christmas Fayre - 8th December 10am to 1pm in Kelty Church - remember girls if you have anything to donate for the craft stall, tombola or raffle we will need it to be here by the 7th December. We have already had some lovely things sent or handed in for the crafts stall and the raffle and tombola prizes are filtering through as well! If you live locally and can bake don't forget the cake and candy stall too! :0)
We now have 78 members on the books so hopefully we will get enough boobs and prem baby sets to meet the Christmas challenges - another 22 members and I will have reached my personal target of 100 members by Christmas day! The extra publicity from the web site and forum are certainly paying off as is all the press coverage we have been getting. We are becoming known up and down the country! Many thanks to all of you who have added links to our sites to other web based things you are on and your own personal Blogs - it all helps!
Right - it is getting late and I have been rushing about all day so I am off for a sleep before it all begins again in the morning!
Keep knitting!
Any donations for the Fayre, Christmas Challenge or any other charities we are collecting for should be sent in to us here at:-
Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group,
18 Clentry Crescent,
Kelty,
Fife.
KY4 0LG.
Tuesday 13 November 2007
We have a Forum!!!
Hey Guys!
Pam has just been in touch and we now have our very own Forum where our members can chat - share views - etc! Here is the link to it:-
http://lovinghands.freeforums.org/
Thank you so much for that Pam - hopefully all our members will now start using it and we will get lots of topics going!
Pam has just been in touch and we now have our very own Forum where our members can chat - share views - etc! Here is the link to it:-
http://lovinghands.freeforums.org/
Thank you so much for that Pam - hopefully all our members will now start using it and we will get lots of topics going!
Lots of press!
Hi Guys!
Well there has been lots of press interest in our group since the Dunfermline Press printed their story (complete with a very embarrassing photo of yours truly with a pair of our knitted boobies!). We were visited at out Kelty meeting yesterday by a couple of really lovely girls from Capital Press (an agency from Edinbugh I believe) they spent an hour and a half chatting to us all and taking hundreds of photos and are now going to try to get us into some women's magazines! It will be great if they do - the publicity can only help us! :0)
They have also said they will come along to our Christmas Fayre on the 8th December which will be great as well. Meg has now bought the Santa suit so all we need is a suitable gent to fill it! Watch this space.....
We have had so many parcels the last week that I can hardly move in here! Thanks to Ann on the Isle of Man again - she has sent over another consignment of goods from the wonderful lady who closed down her shop and donated the leftover stock to us - these things are going to be fantastic for Baby Pack and Blythswood. She also sent some more yarn and lots of knitted things too - what a busy lady!
Mrs J Harris from the Coventry area has also sent us a box containing baby girls clothes - these will come in very useful for Baby Pack too - thank you Mrs Harris!
Another big thank you has to go to Kim and John Cumming who advertised our cause on the Fife freecycle network and then spent days driving all over Fife collecting several large bin bags full of yarn (mostly coned) which will make loads of fantastic blankets!!! Thanks to Kim and John and to all the wonderful ladies on Freecycle who have donated this yarn. I have also acquired a couple of new members from the same group - welcome on board Wendy and Suzanne your contributions will be gratefully received!
Annette Randle has also joined us and has posted a link to our site on her Blog, thank you Annette - your parcel arrived yesterday with the lovely baby surprise cardigans and hats along with the other things - my ladies on the committee here are going to try knitting the baby surprise jacket themselves so listen out for anguished screams when we get stuck!
Yesterday at our meeting in Kelty a lovely old gentleman came in and told us that his dear lady wife had succumbed to the awful illness altzheimers and for the last couple of years had sadly had to live in a care home. Seeing our feature in the Dunfermline Press had motivated him to clear out her knitting things and he had brought us all her yarn, needles and patterns. Thank you my dear for such a lovely gesture - rest assured that all of these things will be put to very good use here :0)
Then today I got a parcel from our dear Do - also from the Isle of Man - she had lovingly parceled up some beautiful prem baby clothes and burial outfits which she had made for us and she has also sent me a very sweet stuffed Manx cat (no Do he is not ugly at all - I will keep him here on the shelf in loving Hands headquarters to keep an eye on things and bring us luck!). She tells me that her husband Bob had signed on to our website and was most impressed to see her name mentioned on it even though she would have no idea how to sign on for herself! Rest assured Bob your lovely wife will be mentioned many times on this website she is a real treasure to us (as I am sure she is to you and your family).
Thank you Do!
The other bit of exciting news is that one of our newer members has bought us our very own website and as we speak is busy getting it all set up and ready to launch. Thanks Pam - you are doing a great job - Pam tells me her daughter is a web designer so she will keep her mum right when setting this up for us. I will post the link to the site as soon as it is up and running. She is going to put on contact details and links to patterns etc. to make it easy for people coming onto the site to navigate it. This could take a few weeks to complete but won't it be great!
And finally - our new meeting in Kirkcaldy launched last night at 7pm in the JRD Trust, 9 The Esplanade. Sadly there were only Meg and myself there last night (it was a freezing wet night and we had a flurry of snow as well so I don't really blame people for not coming out. Meg is going to try to get us an advertising feature in the Fife Free Press for next time so more people will know we are there.
Right then guys - I am off to get on with some more knitting - I have taken this week off work so I can get more organising done for the Christmas Fayre - hopefully we will get lots of items in for the crafts stall and loads of people through the doors on the day :0)
Talk to you soon!
Well there has been lots of press interest in our group since the Dunfermline Press printed their story (complete with a very embarrassing photo of yours truly with a pair of our knitted boobies!). We were visited at out Kelty meeting yesterday by a couple of really lovely girls from Capital Press (an agency from Edinbugh I believe) they spent an hour and a half chatting to us all and taking hundreds of photos and are now going to try to get us into some women's magazines! It will be great if they do - the publicity can only help us! :0)
They have also said they will come along to our Christmas Fayre on the 8th December which will be great as well. Meg has now bought the Santa suit so all we need is a suitable gent to fill it! Watch this space.....
We have had so many parcels the last week that I can hardly move in here! Thanks to Ann on the Isle of Man again - she has sent over another consignment of goods from the wonderful lady who closed down her shop and donated the leftover stock to us - these things are going to be fantastic for Baby Pack and Blythswood. She also sent some more yarn and lots of knitted things too - what a busy lady!
Mrs J Harris from the Coventry area has also sent us a box containing baby girls clothes - these will come in very useful for Baby Pack too - thank you Mrs Harris!
Another big thank you has to go to Kim and John Cumming who advertised our cause on the Fife freecycle network and then spent days driving all over Fife collecting several large bin bags full of yarn (mostly coned) which will make loads of fantastic blankets!!! Thanks to Kim and John and to all the wonderful ladies on Freecycle who have donated this yarn. I have also acquired a couple of new members from the same group - welcome on board Wendy and Suzanne your contributions will be gratefully received!
Annette Randle has also joined us and has posted a link to our site on her Blog, thank you Annette - your parcel arrived yesterday with the lovely baby surprise cardigans and hats along with the other things - my ladies on the committee here are going to try knitting the baby surprise jacket themselves so listen out for anguished screams when we get stuck!
Yesterday at our meeting in Kelty a lovely old gentleman came in and told us that his dear lady wife had succumbed to the awful illness altzheimers and for the last couple of years had sadly had to live in a care home. Seeing our feature in the Dunfermline Press had motivated him to clear out her knitting things and he had brought us all her yarn, needles and patterns. Thank you my dear for such a lovely gesture - rest assured that all of these things will be put to very good use here :0)
Then today I got a parcel from our dear Do - also from the Isle of Man - she had lovingly parceled up some beautiful prem baby clothes and burial outfits which she had made for us and she has also sent me a very sweet stuffed Manx cat (no Do he is not ugly at all - I will keep him here on the shelf in loving Hands headquarters to keep an eye on things and bring us luck!). She tells me that her husband Bob had signed on to our website and was most impressed to see her name mentioned on it even though she would have no idea how to sign on for herself! Rest assured Bob your lovely wife will be mentioned many times on this website she is a real treasure to us (as I am sure she is to you and your family).
Thank you Do!
The other bit of exciting news is that one of our newer members has bought us our very own website and as we speak is busy getting it all set up and ready to launch. Thanks Pam - you are doing a great job - Pam tells me her daughter is a web designer so she will keep her mum right when setting this up for us. I will post the link to the site as soon as it is up and running. She is going to put on contact details and links to patterns etc. to make it easy for people coming onto the site to navigate it. This could take a few weeks to complete but won't it be great!
And finally - our new meeting in Kirkcaldy launched last night at 7pm in the JRD Trust, 9 The Esplanade. Sadly there were only Meg and myself there last night (it was a freezing wet night and we had a flurry of snow as well so I don't really blame people for not coming out. Meg is going to try to get us an advertising feature in the Fife Free Press for next time so more people will know we are there.
Right then guys - I am off to get on with some more knitting - I have taken this week off work so I can get more organising done for the Christmas Fayre - hopefully we will get lots of items in for the crafts stall and loads of people through the doors on the day :0)
Talk to you soon!
Monday 5 November 2007
Are you all still out there????
Hello Everyone out there in Cyberspace!
I am getting really worried - have you all vanished or is it just Yahoo messing me about????? I have been sending out lots of emails to you wonderful members about the Christmas fayre and Christmas challenge but so far have not had a single reply in over two weeks????? Are you getting these emails at all or is it just that you have all been too busy to reply to me??? With the Christmas Fayre and challenge deadlines fast approaching it is getting very unnerving that I cannot make contact. I am going to write a global letter and send it out to all of you that I have addresses for (if you are reading this and haven't yet sent me the response to the questionnaire or registered your details please do so now as I will need everyones details for Christmas :0) If you are new to reading this and want to become part of our group then also please send me your details:-
Name, address, email address, telephone number and what commitment you want to make to us. Send them by email to charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk or by mail to Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group, 18 Clentry Crescent, Kelty, Fife. KY4 0LG.
I will be eagerly watching the email in box and the post box for responses to prove I am not going insane here!!!!
I am getting really worried - have you all vanished or is it just Yahoo messing me about????? I have been sending out lots of emails to you wonderful members about the Christmas fayre and Christmas challenge but so far have not had a single reply in over two weeks????? Are you getting these emails at all or is it just that you have all been too busy to reply to me??? With the Christmas Fayre and challenge deadlines fast approaching it is getting very unnerving that I cannot make contact. I am going to write a global letter and send it out to all of you that I have addresses for (if you are reading this and haven't yet sent me the response to the questionnaire or registered your details please do so now as I will need everyones details for Christmas :0) If you are new to reading this and want to become part of our group then also please send me your details:-
Name, address, email address, telephone number and what commitment you want to make to us. Send them by email to charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk or by mail to Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group, 18 Clentry Crescent, Kelty, Fife. KY4 0LG.
I will be eagerly watching the email in box and the post box for responses to prove I am not going insane here!!!!
Saturday 3 November 2007
Update from Tommee Tippee
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Hi Guys!
Got a lovely message back from Avril at Tommee Tippee the other day - the Boobies have landed and they are delighted with them! I have attached a photo of Avril with the box in her offices - as you can see she is delighted! Now we need to manage to make the 100 for the Christmas Challenge so that I will have a reason to go down there in person in January to hand them over to her!
The local paper has been round taking photos and getting a story for next weeks edition - great publicity for us and perfect timing for the launch of the Kirkcaldy meeting the following Monday! They have also promised to advertise the Christmas fayre for us too so that should help let people know what we are doing!
Next step will be to send out letters to all the local businesses and ask for donations for the raffle or tombola. I know that a lot of you have been busy making extra crafty items for us too so if you have please can you send them up by the end of November so we will be able to keep a check on how much we have for our stall!
So far we have managed to get quite a few crafters to take stalls as well - their stall rental will boost the profits and also people coming in to see what they have made will hopefully buy from our own stalls as well!
We have:-
Gifts 2 Go (peruvian jewellery, soap, bath potions, soft toys etc)
Kingdom Crafts (hand made cards, card kits and blackwork)
Calligraphy
Hand made Glass jewellery
Preserves
as well as all the usual Cake and Candy, tombola, raffle , face painting, hair braiding, guess the gorilla's birthday, teas, books, white elephant and of course..... Santa!
Hopefully we will get a good turnout!
I hope you have all been making things for the Christmas Challenge! I know we are all working hard here making boobs and prem baby cardigans and hats - remember we need to have 100 of each by Christmas to make our target. I am sure we can make it as the list is getting longer all the time!
Please check in when you can by email (charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk) , by letter to Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group, 18 Clentry Crescent, Kelty, Fife. KY4 0LG , or by leaving a note on this Blog! I really like to know how everyone is getting on. Remember also to encourage all your lovely knitting or crocheting friends to join us too - I am still hoping to make 100 members by Christmas!
Right - I guess I had better get on before hubby comes home and thinks I have done nothing but sit in this office all day :00)
If any of you are needing yarn, needles or patterns give me a shout and don't forget to check in when you can :0)
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