Right I am going to try to whizz through and bring these donations and pictures up to date while all is working - I am waiting for the dentist service to call me back as Miss Jenna has a terrible toothache and has had us up all night crying with it. Hopefully they will call and say bring her right over - fingers crossed - getting too old to have to watch my wee one crying in pain and she won't swallow tablets to help (the calpol and paracetamol liquid we have been giving her doesn't seem to be working for her :0(.Here we go then - lots to get through so I will just get them all down as fast as I can :0)
first we had two parcels from the same person with no name on - both in brown envelopes and neither of them had any postage on so I was charged £2.41 for each of them by the post office! I don't know if this kind sould just got mixed up and thought that as we are a charitable group we don't need to pay postage on our parcels - sadly not we have to pay through the nose just the same as everyone else :0) Never mind the thought was there - whoever you are - thank you for the five adults hats you enclosed in your packages :0)
from Gillian Harber we had 3 burial gowns, 2 sleeping bags, 3 baby hats, 1 pr of prem mittens and 1 prem bodywarmer - thank you Gillian :0)
from Coral Burrows there were 2 prem cardies and 1 prem bodywarmer - lovely Coral - thank you x
from Lillias (tenpin765) there were three more lovely doggy coats - thanks Lilias! I put them in Nias box for the animals in Wales :0)
from Jacky (hadenmaiden) 3 pairs of prem bootees, 3 burial gowns and 2 prem blankets - lovely - thanks Jacky x
from Ilona in Germany (Charley) we had 8 lovely pairs of kids socks, 2 boobs and 1 knitted pinafore dress - lovely Ilona - thank you! x
from our lovely Granny Do two amazing gents waistcoats - beautifully tailored by a very talented lady :0) These are fantastic Do and just perfect as you said for the gents at Blythswood - Suzanne would love to make some too if she can get her hands on a pattern for some. Well done you (as always) xxx
from an anonymous donor who says anothe rmember gave her our address (the note was written on the back of a Hooe Village Parish Survey) :0) 73 crocheted squares all made up from 4 smaller crocheted squares jopined together along with 8 more small ones to make two more big ones if you catch my drift
These have all gone back to eEdinburgh with Anne (Skye) as she made the mistake of volunteering to sew some squares together for us when she came over on Saturday afternoon to drop off things she had made :0) Thatll teach her - it is very dangerous to volunteer in front of Loopy Lou
from Pam Bennett her mum Brenda and auntie Elaine there were 5 scarves, 3 kids hats, 6 toys and 1 oxfam jumper - thanks a lot girls these are great - the toys are so nicely done
from Pat (our lovely Silver Surfer) 3 blankets, 4 bodywarmers with marching hats, 4 angel wraps, 1 stretchy hat, 1 tam o shanter (very pretty in the sparkly white fluffy yarn), 1 adult hat, 1 baby cardie and 1 very stern looking octopus (we loved him!). Thanks you so much for a wonderful first donation Pat - you have certainly made your mark already both on the forum and here xx
from Helen (helenknit) 1 pair of kids trousers and a sun top, 2 knitted scarves and 52 st pads for the project washables appeal - brilliant Helen - Suzanne was delighted with these!
another package with no name and no note this time containing 2 pairs of adult bedsocks and 8 baby hats - thank you so much xx
from Kelly Canning now - 2 lovely blankets - thank you Kelly! x
another box from Janette (knitnatter), her mum Margaret and Margaret's friend Kath. from Janette we had 1 sands blanket, 1 baby blanket, 1 animal blanket, from Margaret there was 1 baby blanket, 1 baby hat and 1 toy and from Kath we had 1 osfam jumper and 2 pullovers - wonderful work as always girls - thank you all so much xx
now from Julie (Tooties) we have 5 blankets, 1 boob, 5 prs kids socks, 5 jumpers and 3 baby cardies - what a great pile of donations Julie - thank you!!! x
from Sue Garlic and the Happy Hookers group who meet in Ashton Library in Wigan we had 13 jumpers, 3 kids scarves, 2 toys and 4 kids hats - wonderful donations all - thank you so much xxx I had a lovely chat with Sue at the weekend and persuaded her to get signed on here which she has done. She gave me the great news that from next week the Happy Hookers will be 30 strong and are making things for lots of great charity projected including ourselves - keep up the good work Sue and it was great talking to you!
from Jenny Hill we had 1 blanket, 1 scarf, 2 kids hats and 1 urial gown and bonnet - thank you Jenny - these are just perfect :0)
from Kate Grant and the Knitwits Group (from St Andrew's United Reformed Chirch in Scarborough) we had 4 blankets, 5 cardies, 1 bolero and - wait for it - 46 kids jumpers!!!! Well done all of you we were thrilled with such a huge donation from one place - it is lovely to get big contributions from our wonderful wee groups out there xxx
and finally for this update we had a visit from Anne (Skye) and her lovely hubby Aleck on Saturday afternoon - many thanks to Aleck for taking time out to bring Anne over from Edinburgh to drop off her work - I did bake a lemon sponge but Aleck never had any as he had just had his lunch vefore he came over - I think Anne nejoyed it though xx
In Anne's amazing donations were - 30 st covers, 25 st pads, 16 wonderful quilted pet beds (Suzanne loved these when I showed her and the ladies at the Cat Shelter and Perthshire Abandoned Dogs Society were delighted with them as I delivered them at the weekend!), some wool Anne thoguht she wouldn't get round to using up, 1 oxfam jumper, 1 sun top, 7 cardies, 1 pair of baby socks, 4 baby hats and 2 pairs of bootees. What a great pile of goodies Anne - thank you so much xxx
Right I have got an appointment for Miss Jenna for 2.45 so will try to distract her with some hot chocolate and a movie until then (I can knit while we watch :0)
