Knitting for Charity month Featuring Loving Hands
Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group is a Knitting, sewing
and crochet group and was formed by Lou
Jaap after a very succesful 24 hour Charity Knitathon which took place in the
Volunteer Centre in Kirkcaldy, Fife to celebrate National Volunteers Week. The
event went so well they decided to start up a group to continue the great work
started during the Knitathon. They now have a blog site and forum and have
members from all over the UK who knit and crochet for various charities. Loving
Hands are happy to accept donations of yarn, needles, patterns,toy stuffing,
material, thread, lace trimmings, wedding and bridesmaids dresses (to unpick
and turn into burial gowns), blankets, duvets, towels, bedding, baby clothes,
cloth nappies, etc.
How You Can Help
They need Help with
the Autumn Challenge, several items on a list that are urgently required. There
is still time to help them as challenge finishes Saturday 22nd October 2011.
They have a list of requests for prem baby and burial items wich is growing all the time. Cuddles, Sands and lots of hospitals and pathology labs and morticians are in need. It would be great to be able to respond to every request straight away so they need burial gowns and bonnets, hooded wraps, tiny blankets 10 or 12 inches, sleeping bags, tiny hats, pairs of tiny teddies or other toys, Sands blankets, prem cardies from 10 inches to 16 inches chest, prem hats vent bonnets, angel pockets, prem blankets from 16 to 24 inches and cribs. They aim for 100 Sands blankets and as many of the others as possible

They could use a massive BOOB injection. Knitted breasts will
be used by breastfeeding support workers, midwives and community mothers, to
give instructions on hand expression to new mothers. Loving Hands get direct
requests from hospitals and health boards to supply them by the hundred so they
are always in great demand. They do not
need to be realistic ’flesh’ tones - the midwives say the nice colourful ones go
down a treat. If you wish you can send
them in ‘flat’ and Loving Hands will stuff and finish them off. They are hoping
to get 500 of these.
For
animals they have had enquiries from a few dog and cat homes (Battersea
included) for cat toys, they get a huge influx of cats, having kittens every
year and they like to have toys to keep them amused, the link to the page with
patterns at Battersea website is here - http://www.battersea.org.uk/about_us/whats_new/cat_knitting
They will collect the usual items to be included in shoe
boxes : hats/scarves/gloves/mitts/socks/glove puppets etc, toiletries, writing
pads, pens, colouring books, pencils, toiletries, razors, etc, etc. Items for
all ages they do boxes for categories boy/girl 3 to 7, boy/girl 8 to 12,
teenage boy/girl, man or woman and elderly woman.
They have also been asked for 500 teddies for
tragedy. If you could help out with this and you do
not want to stuff them and put on faces, send them in ’flat’ and faceless and Loving Hands will finish them.
They have a very comprehensive list of patterns available to
members through Their forum Pattern Central pages –
and can only be accessed when a member is signed in to the
forum using their username and password. It is a very simğle process to join.
You will find hundreds of patterns and links to patterns for knitting,
crocheting and sewing there to inspire you.
Loving Hands now have many charities on their books - all have been checked to make sure they take all the
donations and they give them directly to the people or animals in need. They do not supply items to be sold in
charity shops.
Here is a list of some of the charities you can veiw the
whole list on the web site:
Boobs for Breastfeeding Initiative
Blythswood Care
SANDS
BLISS
UK Maternities, Morticians and Pathologists.
Animal Shelters (SSPCA, RSPCA,Cats protection league, Fife
cat shelter, the donkey sanctuary, Little hen rescue centre, Help the animals
Wales, WSPA, Edinburgh Zoo and others)
Teddies for Tragedy
If you would like to know more about Loving Hands or the
work they do, or would like to ask for items for your organisation or join them
and help to make things better for people and animals all over the world cantact details are:
Lou Jaap
Loving Hands Charity Knitting Group,
18 Clentry Crescent Kelty, Fife KY4 0LG Scotland.
Web site:www.lovinghands.org.,uk
email : charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk
Tel : 01383 830277
If you wish join them they will do their best to supply you
with most of the materials you need to create items for the charities. Their policy is that members give their time
and talent to help and do not want to empty their pockets but it’s quite
alright to use your own yarn. No matter what you choose to make they can find a
home for it.
If anyone would like to donate to Loving Hands postage and
materials fund you can do so by Paypal to charityknitters@yahoo.co.uk or by cheque or postal order made out to L.
Jaap (loving hands) they also raise funds for postage through Easyfundraising
you can find details on the web site:
Please remember your
help is needed all year round!
If you'd like our free pattern book'Knitting for Charity' please leave your email address in the box at the base of this blog.( I promise to respect your privacy and will not pass your emial address on to anyone else.)
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