Bournville Crafty Bees

Calling all knitters, crocheters & felters – Corby Pole Fair needs you! We want to adorn one of the floral arches at Corby Pole Fair 2022 with your handiwork and St John the Baptist Church, Corby will be leading a town-wide call to get crafty in the lead-up to the fair on June 3rd.

We need lots of your home-crafted flowers. They can be any colour, any size, and any pattern. They can be knitted, crocheted, felt or any other textile flower creations you can think of. But we need lots of them to start to build a spectacular archway that will welcome people to the fair.

Find out how to get involved at:
www.madewithmany.org/floral-arch

27 blankets have gone off with Lynda jay to put in hug bags for cancer patients. Thanks Bournville crafty bees for all your support xx

Hug bags
I have a list!!!!

Bag - 20 items

Water bottle
Small blanket
Soft Beanie Hat
Notebook
Colouring or Puzzle book
Reading book
Gratitude journal
Pens
Colouring pencils
Hand sanitiser 50 ml
Hand cream
Hair conditioner
Mouth wash
Pocket Tissues
Face mask
Sanitiser wipes
Lip balm
Eye liner
Dark nail Polish
Sweets / Mints
If anyone can help with these items we would be most grateful. The bags are going to people who are having chemotherapy. If you could drop to Christine's wool shop Bournville Green. Thank you for your support xx

***TRIALING A BRAND NEW GROUP***
The Knit & Natter Club
The Last Wednesday of each Month
Starting 26th January. 6.30pm - 8.30pm
in the 'Tea Room'
For more information contact Elaine 07805705222

Can you help?! Are you a Crafter and would be happy to sew for a child in emergency care?

We are looking for people to make Drawstring Bags to add to our Buddy Bags for children who have entered emergency accommodation after fleeing domestic abuse.

You can create the bags using any suitable children’s fabric in a size that is approximately 12” x 10”

All bags will need to be delivered to Cookes Storage;

Buddy Bag Foundation
C/O Cookes Storage
Unit 16 Maybrook Road
Maybrook Business Park
Minworth, Sutton Coldfield
B76 1AL

For more information, please visithttps://buddybagfoundation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BBF-Crafters-Pack-15.6.21-min.pdf

If anyone can help that would be kind

Charity Knitting Patterns Here are a some of the latest free patterns from charities that need your help....

TRAFFIC LIGHT BLANKET APPEAL ❤️🧡💚

Click on image for full appeal info

We’ve had quite a few appeals for traffic light blankets from various NICU units. They have asked us not to give out their addresses directly to avoid them being inundated with too many items, so they are coming to us at WBP HQ first to post on.

24” square (roughly)

Patterns with no holes in. Tiny babies can get fingers caught, this is why we ask for no holes.

Colours Red, orange or green. Only one of these colours per blanket. Colours can be mixed with another colour, for example red and white stripes, but as long as a nurse can look at the blanket and quickly identify if it’s “red” - the colours identify how much care a baby needs, red being the highest level of care, green being slightly less.

No other traffic light items needed.

Please only send items that have been requested.

Wool recommendations:

www.wonder-wool.co.uk

❤️Red:

❤️Alize-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/alize-baby-best-56-red/

❤️Yarnart-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/yarnart-elite-41-red-100g/

❤️Robin DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/robin-dk-0042-red-100g/

❤️James C Brett Top value-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/james-c-brett-top-value-dk-100g-44-colours-available/

Amber:

🧡Alize-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/alize-baby-best-336-orange/

🧡James C Brett Top value-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/james-c-brett-top-value-dk-100g-44-colours-available/

🧡Hayfield Bonus DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/hayfield-bonus-dk-100g-1-50-of-100-colours-available/

Green:

💚Robin DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/robin-dk-0162-lime-green-100g/

💚Hayfield Bonus DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/hayfield-bonus-dk-100g-51-100-of-100-colours-available/

💚Good Old Fashioned DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/good-old-fashioned-dk-geneva-christmas-green/

💚Good old fashioned DK-
https://wonder-wool.co.uk/product/good-old-fashioned-dk-georgia-light-green/

❤️🧡💚