Hello Again!
Great news! The Lion Brand yarns company have now got a link on their charity finder web pages to Loving Hands and it is working a charm! (Perhaps because we are the only charity knitting group listed in the UK at the moment!) :0)
Since last night I have had two new members e-mailed wanting to join up so let me say a big welcome to Margaret from Morayshire and Beryl from Anglesey. We are delighted to have you on board ladies - thanks for volunteering and we look forward to having you with us for a very long time to come!
Another bit of fun news for you all is that I have been asked to go down to England to meet up with the executives from Tommee Tippee and the midwives who set up the knitted breasts for breastfeeding initiative. I will be going down with the Press Officers from Sky Television in Dunfermline (where I work) and when I go I will take with me all the breasts we have ready by then - I have about three dozen done at the moment so the more the merrier before we go! It will be a great photo opportunity and a chance to publicise Loving Hands! (It will also give me a chance to meet with Avril Deane and thank her personally for getting Tommee Tippee involved) :0-) We are going down sometime in July - watch this space for more details!
Monday 25 June 2007
Friday 22 June 2007
Loving Hands
Welcome to the newly formed Loving Hands charity knitting and crochet group. We were formed because of the huge success of the Volunteer Centre Fife's 24 hour charity knitathon. Following on from that we did not want to simply go back to knitting or crocheting all alone and trying to find places to take out work. Now we are in the process of setting up groups accross Fife (in Kelty, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy to begin with) and welcoming new crafters and like minded people to join from a distance as well!
We will be meeting regularly to have a knit and natter, choose the charities we are going to knit for and fundraise to pay for postage etc.
The charities we are knitting for right now are:-
The Baby Pack Project - which makes up packs of baby essentials to give to new mums in the Kwa Zulu Natal area of South Africa - they were taking their babies home naked and wrapped in old newspapers before this wonderful project began!
Burundi Bears - this is a scheme where knitters knit little bears to a set pattern and they are labelled and then sold for £1 each by schoolchildren in this country. Each £1 pays for 4 bricks in new schools being built in the Burundi District of South Africa - the schools there were all destroyed during the fighting.
Blythswood Care - a christian charity based in Scotland which takes warm clothing, blankets and other essentials out to places like Albania and Croatia.
The other thing we are doing is knitting 'boobs' which are used to teach new mums how to breastfeed in UK hospitals and clinics. This was an initiative we were drawn into by Tommee Tippee who very kindly donated a large box of cotton nappies and wraps (for the Baby Pack Project) in exchange for us knitting them a few dozen of these knitted breasts.
As you can see they are all very good charities and worth knitting for. We are also accepting donations of yarns, patterns, knitting needles, toy stuffing, baby clothes, blankets, towels, baby soap etc as well as contributions towards posting.
We are in the process of applying to be added to the national register of charities which will give us the right to apply for grants and other funding and also make it easier to fundraise.
If you would like to join us then you can e-mail charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk leave a message on this Blog or come along to one of our meetings in Fife. (I will post the venues, days and times on here in a couple of weeks).
Welcome everyone!
We will be meeting regularly to have a knit and natter, choose the charities we are going to knit for and fundraise to pay for postage etc.
The charities we are knitting for right now are:-
The Baby Pack Project - which makes up packs of baby essentials to give to new mums in the Kwa Zulu Natal area of South Africa - they were taking their babies home naked and wrapped in old newspapers before this wonderful project began!
Burundi Bears - this is a scheme where knitters knit little bears to a set pattern and they are labelled and then sold for £1 each by schoolchildren in this country. Each £1 pays for 4 bricks in new schools being built in the Burundi District of South Africa - the schools there were all destroyed during the fighting.
Blythswood Care - a christian charity based in Scotland which takes warm clothing, blankets and other essentials out to places like Albania and Croatia.
The other thing we are doing is knitting 'boobs' which are used to teach new mums how to breastfeed in UK hospitals and clinics. This was an initiative we were drawn into by Tommee Tippee who very kindly donated a large box of cotton nappies and wraps (for the Baby Pack Project) in exchange for us knitting them a few dozen of these knitted breasts.
As you can see they are all very good charities and worth knitting for. We are also accepting donations of yarns, patterns, knitting needles, toy stuffing, baby clothes, blankets, towels, baby soap etc as well as contributions towards posting.
We are in the process of applying to be added to the national register of charities which will give us the right to apply for grants and other funding and also make it easier to fundraise.
If you would like to join us then you can e-mail charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk leave a message on this Blog or come along to one of our meetings in Fife. (I will post the venues, days and times on here in a couple of weeks).
Welcome everyone!
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