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Six more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 5

23 Sunday Oct 2016

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Since my last blog post, I have received a further six beautiful blankets – one from Linda Baker over in Portugal, one from Mary Gordon my friend from my Thames Ditton days, and four blankets from Tamika Joyeux. Yes, you read that right – four blankets from one crocheter!

Here is the first of Tamika’s blankets: rows of colour seperated with rows of white. I love the fresh look of this blanket.

Tamika Joyeux

Tamika’s second blanket is a beautiful lacy square in dusky shades and light grey. Those yellow squares really pop!

Tamika Joyeux

Another striped blanket from Tamika, but this time is a crazy random stripe colour explosion.

Tamika Joyeux

Tamika’s fourth blanket is totally different again. This one is hexagons in blues, purples, pink and black.

I’d love to see Tamika’s yarn stash! Looking at these four blankets she is a huge lover of colour!

Tamika Joyeux

Linda, a friend of Barbara Boothman, had a tough time finishing this delicate blue blanket due to arthritis in her right hand setting in, and the design being much more work than she had anticipated. Thank you very much Linda for persevering despite these challenges, I really appreciate it!

Linda Barker

The last blanket for this week comes from Mary Gordon. Mary lives in Thames Ditton (where John and I lived when we started Crochet For Kidneys) so she is one of the very first contributors to CFK. I met up with Mary at Carluccio’s in Waterloo station on Saturday to pick up the blanket (and to catch up on all the Thames Ditton news.) I just had to open up the blanket and admire it right there in Carluccio’s because I know the kind of quality crochet Mary produces and she did not disappoint! It’s another masterpiece. Last year Mary’s blanket was inspired by the Rainbow. This year she found inspiration from a Kaleidescope, which this blanket definitely depicts. She nailed it! Mary started work on her blanket in June when she was crocheting the central white circles during a train journey through Italy. Mary wrote on the tag attached to the blanket: “A kaleidoscope of colour to brighten the day.” So lovely!

So with these six beautiful contributions from Linda, Tamika and Mary we have 26 blankets for the Royal London Hospital. Once I’ve managed to finish my autumnal blanket, we will have exactly the same amount of blankets as last year. That’s super!

Now I just have to finish that chevron blanket. It would be a travesty if the organiser of CFK5 causes us to have fewer blankets than for CFK4!

Three more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 5

09 Sunday Oct 2016

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I have three more granny square blankets to show you this week. The first two is from Jenny who says she is already working on a third blanket in a new square pattern. Jenny’s blankets are super squishy and warm and she arranged her squares very creatively.

blue and black granny square blanketgranny square blanket

Janet sent me this beautiful granny square from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. I love the bright blue she used to frame her colourful  granny squares.

Thank you Jenny and Janet, your blankets are beautiful!

Our total blanket count is now 20 with about a month to go. I wonder if we will beat last year’s total of 27?

 

Ten more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 5

24 Saturday Sep 2016

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Yes you read that correctly, I received ten blankets in one week! Our blanket count is now at 17.

Emma Ashman and her mom Sandra made an amazing five beautiful blankets. This is their third CFK making beautiful blankets.

Emma and Sandra Ashman

Emma and Sandra Ashman

Emma and Sandra Ashman

Emma and Sandra Ashman

Emma and Sandra Ashman

Barbara Boothman’s second blanket all the way from Portugal also arrived this week. It’s a bright colour riot!

Barbara Boothman

Marion Nelson made a blanket for CFK 4 and this week I received her lovely stripy blanket for CFK 5. This one will be perfect for a male dialysis patient.

Marion Nelson

And here are Susara Ribbens De Vos’s stunning three blankets. Just like the Ashmans, this is also Susara’s second year contributing to Crochet For Kidneys.  Susara used the same shades for her three blankets, but by just adding white or grey and chaining the pattern, they look so different!

Susara Ribbens de Vos

Susara Ribbens de Vos

Susara Ribens de Vos

Susara Ribbens de Vos

A pile of 10 beautiful, lovingly made blankets destined for the kidney disease patients of The Royal London Hospital.

Thank you so, so, so much to everyone who have sent me a crochet blanket. I can’t tell you much I appreciate the hard work, time and the cost of postage that go into these.

If you want to contribute to Crochet For Kidneys Part 5, you still have until the first week of November to get your blankets to me. I have to get a move on myself, because I still have to finish the autumn shades ripple blanket! Let’s get hooking!

 

Four more blankets for Crochet For Kindeys Part 5

09 Friday Sep 2016

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Oooh-wee, the blankets are starting to arrive!

First off we have a mixed colour and size, joyful granny square blanket from Barbara Boothman, all the way from Portugal:

Cindy Boot made a beautiful purple blanket with an intricate block design:

Gemma Harris turned a pastel granny square into a pastel afghan by cleverly adding rows at either end:

And Tracey Meacham used a granny rectangle to make her blanket in primary colours. This is only Tracey’s second ever blanket. Great job Tracey!:

Thank you so much ladies for your contributions to Crochet For Kidneys Part 5.

Our total blanket count is seven. Keep them coming!

One more blanket 

14 Saturday Nov 2015

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I have one more blanket to show you for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4. A beautiful giant granny square blanket made by Jennifer. I love the muted shades she used, and what a clever idea to start off with two 4-round granny squares?

Jennifer hand delivered the blanket to my home – I’m so sorry I was at work when she came over.

Jennifer

Jennifer’s blanket came with this really cool card. Life is definitely much better when you’re laughing!

With Jennifer’s blanket, our total is now at a record 27 blankets for dialysis patients!

That reminds me: have you guys seen the graph I made to show how the blanket count has gone up over the four CFK’s? I posted it on the Crochet For Kidneys Facebook group a few weeks ago, but here it is again.

blanket v people graph

Blanket count up, participants down. Who would have thought?!

Now that all the blankets are in, I’ll be spending today and tomorrow hand writing the tags to go with each blanket.

We’ve also been thinking about the logistics of carrying 27 blankets to the hospital. Last year we had three huge bags for the 17 blankets of CFK3, so 27 is going to be even more challenging. Fortunately John had the great idea that we should vacuum pack the blankets which will reduce the size considerably. Clever man!

The next time I blog about Crochet For Kidneys it will be to tell you about delivering the blankets to the hospital on the 24th. 🙂

The last four blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4

31 Saturday Oct 2015

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And so on this Halloween we reach the deadline for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4. It’s been a heart warming and humbling four months since my fourth appeal for crocheted blankets. My amazing blog readers and crochet friends delivered the goods – in spades! With the four blankets I received this week, we have reached a grand total of 26 blankets for the dialysis patients at the Royal London Hospital! That’s our highest blanket count since I started Crochet For Kidneys in November 2013!

This week Dorota’s blue and brown ripple blanket arrived all the way from Poland, Barbara’s second colourful traditional granny square blanket arrived from Portugal, Pauline Thomson’s granny square blanket in a comfy chunky yarn arrived from Scotland and Cecilia sent her very striking granny ripple.

ripple crochet blanket

Dorota Dobrowska

Granny Square blanket

Barbara Boothman

granny square blanket

Pauline Thomson

Granny ripple blanket

Cecilia Ockleford

Cecilia is an old-timer CFK member – you can see a photo of her in this blog post from the Crochet For Kidneys charity day back in November 2013.

Cecilia crocheted her first ever blanket for CFK3 last year, and this ripple is her second blanket. It takes Cecilia longer than the average to crochet a blanket because she suffers from muscle dystrophy.  Just like last year, I feel very privileged that she would spend so much time on a blanket only to donate it to CFK. Thank you so much Cecilia, your selflessness is a true inspiration.

Everyone put so much care and love into their blankets I’m positive it will bring years of comfort and hope to the dialysis patients.

Whenever I look at my two cupboards filled to the brim with handmade blankets I am reminded of just how special you all are.

Thank you and blessings to each of you.

Nine more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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This week has been a bumper week for CFK4 – seven blankets arrived in the post, I received one blanket in person and I finished the pink blanket! That’s nine blankets for dialysis patients in one week! Isn’t that fantastic?!

Our grand total is now 22!!! This week we exceeded all previous Crochet For Kidneys, and the best part is, I know there are more blankets coming! You guys totally rock!

The first blanket I’m going to show you comes from Mary Gordon. Mary lives in Thames Ditton (where John and I lived when we started Crochet For Kidneys) so she is one of the very first contributors to CFK. I met up with Mary at Carluccio’s in Waterloo station on Saturday to pick up the blanket (and to catch up on all the Thames Ditton news.) I just had to open up the blanket and admire it right there in Carluccio’s because I know the kind of quality crochet Mary produces. Have a look at this blog post from CFK2 to see The Mary Border and her purple and white blanket. This year her blanket was inspired by the Rainbow. She wrote on the tag attached to the blanket: “This blanket is inspired by the colours of the rainbow – the promise of sunshine to come.” I just love that!!!

Mary Gordon

Trish Harris of France made two blankets, despite suffering from Carparel Tunnel Syndrome. Thank you so much Trish for contributing – your blankets are beautiful and I really appreciate the effort you put it. I hope the CTS clears up soon so you will be hook-in-hand again.

Trish Harris

Trish Harris

Jude Garrett crocheted this super colourful blanket. She also attended the CFK2 event along with Mary. You can see Jude hard at work in this blogpost. Jude wrote that her 7-year old has now also started to crochet so next year we can expect a joint mother-and-daughter blanket! Wouldn’t that be just the sweetest thing!?

Jude Garrett

It looks like Sue de Vos was also inspired by the rainbow just like Mary, but Sue did rows of trebles for her rainbow blanket. So many colours!

Sue Ribbens de Vos

Sue’s second blanket is a gorgeous  traditional granny square blanket in more muted shades than her striped rainbow blanket. I love the border and the way she joined her granny squares.

Sue Ribbens de Vos

Next up I want to show you Tamika’s two fantastic blankets – a blue, green, beige ripple and a stunning turquoise, green, white and brown granny square blanket. I love the unusual colours!

Tamika Joyeux

Tamika Joyeux

And finally my second blanket for CFK4, the pink mitred squares.

Natasja King

Natasja King

Thank you again to everyone who crocheted a blanket and posted it to me. I know it takes a lot of time to crochet a blanket and postage is not cheap. You produced beautiful blankets which I will be proud to hand over to the Renal Unit of the Royal London Hospital. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Two more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4

04 Sunday Oct 2015

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The blankets for the dialysis patients are coming in weekly now and our total blanket count is up to 13. Thank you everyone!!

This week I received Wendy “Eddy” Gould’s very non-square purple and white blanket. This is our second striped blanket in Crochet For Kidneys Part 4. Wendy also contributed a blanket for CFK3 last year. She really embraced this year’s brief of “any design” 🙂

Wendy “Eddy” Gould

This extremely sunny blanket was made in Faro, Portugal. It’s the crochet work of Linda Baker, a friend of Barbara Booth whose blanket I showed you last week. Even if I hadn’t known Linda lives in Portugal I would have thought that this blanket has a distinct sunny Portuguese or Spanish feel to it. Don’t you agree? These two ladies are bringing the sunshine of Portugal to our blanket collection and they are making two blankets each. Fantastic!

Linda Baker

Not so much sunny as girly, my pink blanket is almost finished – I’m crocheting the edging at the moment and then have to work away the ends.

Thank you again to everyone who has crocheted blankets for the dialysis patients. Most of you are repeat contributors to Crochet For Kidneys which makes me appreciate your efforts even more. Blessings to you all!

  Two more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys Part 4

27 Sunday Sep 2015

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I received two more beautiful traditional granny square blankets over the past two weeks.

Caroline Bennett says her fiancé had a kidney transplant 2 and a half years ago after being on dialysis. They think Crochet For Kidneys is a great idea and it inspired Caroline to make these beautiful two-tone granny squares.

Caroline Bennett

Barbara Boothman’s striking traditional granny square blanket with the black joining rounds, comes all the way from Faro, Portugal. She has another blanket to send me.

Barbara Boothman

Thank you very much for your contributions ladies. The blankets are beautiful!

Hop on over to the Crochet For Kidneys Facebook group where you will see more photos, posts and comments about these blankets.

Our blanket total is now up to 11. We’re in the double digits people!! Keep them coming!

Four more blankets for Crochet For Kidneys

13 Sunday Sep 2015

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I received these four blankets from a mother and daughter team, Emma and Sandra Ashman.  Thank you so much ladies, the blankets are beautiful!

Sandra Ashman

Emma Ashman

Sandra Ashman

Emma Ashman

How many hours of work went into these four blankets?! There are so many different square motifs in these four blankets! Ladies, am I right in saying that you have been using the  200 Crochet Blocks book by Jan Eaton…?  😉

Thanks to this mother and daughter team, the CFK4 blanket count is now up to nine. Thank you ladies, you are stars!