Tag: vintage

MY HAND MADE BABY KNITS…

Baby hats and booties

I am now ‘Great Aunty B’, (love it) my niece has had a lovely little boy (7lbs 2oz) after a gruelling 66 hours of labour. Fortunately mother and baby are doing fine 🙂

For the last few days I’ve been busy knitting in the right colour as they decided they wanted the sex to be a surprise.

Baby hat

This wool is adorable (King Cole Cuddles). I also knitted a white baby blanket as well and finished it with a blue ribbon trim (Pictures to follow soon).

If anyone wants any of my knitting patterns feel free to ask.

Baby knitting

RECYCLE YOUR CLOTHES TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM…

Clothes Vintage

If you haven’t heard of the M&S Shwopping scheme then read this article.

M&S launched a shwopping unwanted clothes scheme with Oxfam with recycling bins – or Shwop Drops, which are in all M&S stores across the UK (except Simply Food ones).

You simply deposit your unwanted clothes (M&S and non-M&S) into the bins.

The target is for M&S to recycle as many clothes as it sells which is around 300 million items a year.

One million tonnes of clothes are thrown away in the UK each year and about half of these end up in landfill but none of the donations you give will go into landfill, instead good used clothing will be sold via Oxfam. Even ones that are not suitable to sell will be recycled.

For more details on this and other M&S environmental and ethical plans go to http://www.plana.marksandspencer.com

LOVING HANDS, KNIT CROCHET OR SEW FOR CHARITY…

Loving Hands

If your quite handy at knitting, sewing or crocheting and like to do your bit for charity then ‘Loving Hands’ knitting charity needs you.

It was set up in 2007 by Lou Happ from Fife who ran a knitathon as part of the company she was working for’s ‘voluntary scheme’.

She was inundated with interest so she formed a local knitting group and now ‘Loving Hands’ has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Every season, a new challenge is set which could be from supplying blankets to a premature baby unit to donating woollen hats to homeless charity Crisis.

Basically you send your knits,sews or crochets to the charity HQ which was originally in Lou’s house, but it has now become so big that she has built a shed to house it all. The goods are then packed into boxes by Lou and a team of volunteers, then distributed to the charities.

To join the knitters network just go to the website ‘Loving Hands’, http://www.lovinghands.org.uk