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!