Always something new to see!

Good Afternoon,

I do hope you will scroll down our previous posts. I have two Blankets to show you now and underneath this post you will see three beautiful Daffodil Squares that came in from Marje. Underneath
Marje's post I am showing you the latest Challenge Blanket. 'Autumn Leaves'. I wouldn't want you to miss anything.

I am very pleased to be showing you two beautiful Blankets which Pippa has assembled for us. The Squares were made by Grace who lives in Sheltered accommodation at Rowheath House.  Grace is in her 80's. She sits crocheting away for our SIBOL project and I'm so pleased that it gives her something to do. The Squares are made in double yarn and they are so pretty.

Let's take a look at the Blankets now.

Pippa you have made a great job of putting these Blankets together for me,

they are so pretty.  Thank you!

I don't think for one minute Grace will be reading the 'SIBOL' Blog

but I will be writing to thank her for the Squares.

These are the other 50 I received.

Thanks for visiting today!

x Sue x 

The final three Daffodil Squares arrive today!

Good Afternoon,

As you know we have been working terribly hard over the last year making Daffodil Squares for Marie Curie.  My aim is to make 9 Daffodil Blankets for their 9 Hospices up and down the Country.

I have 8 Blankets upstairs which are ready and I am waiting for one to come in from wilfi in the Netherlands which will be July time. Once this has arrived I shall send the 9 off to them.

Meanwhile I have been collecting Daffodil Squares to make 1 more Blanket which will be auctioned  on EBAY. jessiebonbon is going to make the final Blanket up for me. Today I had the last 3 Daffodil Squares arrive from Marje  here in the UK and I am terribly grateful to you for making them. They really are superb and are going to look a treat in the final Blanket. Thank you so much.

So pretty!

x Sue x 

'Autumn Leaves'

Hi everyone!

I'm always so excited when a new Challenge is 'done and dusted' so to speak. I had such fun collecting the Squares for our 'Leaves' Challenge and once again we have received a great variety of different designs. The Leaves have been Crocheted and  Knitted in wonderful colours.

I can't wait to show you.

This Blanket comprises of 30 Squares and I Crocheted the border from Edie Eckman's book 'Around the Corner Crochet Borders'. This is an excellent book and even I can understand it. The border is Number 21. I tried to pick up the rusty colour from one of the Squares and hope they look like leaves!

I'm afraid I can't do one of my Slide Shows at the moment, because Flickr has changed every time I copy and paste the html into the Slide Show site it doesn't work. I'm not a happy bunny this evening.

Sorry about that.

Why do they have to change things? 

Everything was great before.

I hope you like 'Autumn Leaves'.

Thanks to everyone who contributed Squares for this Challenge once again.

Thanks for visiting me this evening.

x Sue x 

Our 'Underwater' Challenge Blanket is finished!

Good Afternoon and thanks for visiting 'SIBOL' today!

I am very happy to be showing you the 'Underwater' Challenge Blanket. Once again the Squares have been amazing and I would like to thank everyone who took part in this Challenge. I had fun once again making this Blanket up I do hope you like it.

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Another Challenge over thank you! I do still need 3 Daffodil Squares if anyone would like to make any up. Please email me and let me know.
sueatpigsty@talktalk.net This would be for a Daffodil Blanket which will be auctioned on EBAY raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. I have 8 Daffodil Blankets waiting to be distributed to Marie Curie with 1 Blanket arriving July time from wilfi (Netherlands). Thanks for visiting today! x Sue x 

Good Afternoon,

I am so excited to be showing you four beautiful Granny Blankets which have arrived today from Denise and the Crafting Ladies at Tindall Riley (London).    I'm going to show you part of the letter she sent to me.

"4 Blankets from the crafting Ladies at Tindall Riley. They craft and hold sales to raise money for charity and call themselves the "TR Bag Ladies". We hope they are suitable for your cause. They have certainly served us well as an opportunity to teach crochet and have the learners see rapid results from their efforts of contributions".

I am absolutely over the moon with these beautiful Blankets especially because I know that you have gone to such a lot of trouble teaching the Ladies in your Group the art of crochet. Each one of the Squares in these Blankets have been made so well and I wouldn't know that the Ladies are beginners by any means! A great selection of Squares in each of the four Blankets made in wonderful colour combinations. The Blankets all have pretty borders too and are perfect sizes for the Elderly ideal to throw over their laps. They are so warm too, I absolutely love them.

I'm really pleased that you think the 'SIBOL' project has been worthy of your time and would you please thank each of the Ladies for their hard work. I know that these Blankets are going to be so well received when I go out on my next deliveries. I did actually put a letter in the post today to tell you that they had arrived okay because I couldn't find your email address. (sueatpigsty@talktalk.net/Sue)

Let's take a look now at these pretty Blankets.

Aren't they gorgeous? Now the other two.

How lovely, thank you very much. I hope you enjoy your Slide Show now!

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Please feel free to take whatever photos you wish. Thank you for taking an interest in 'SIBOL'. Our Ravelry Group is  http://www.ravelry.com/groups/-sibol- Please feel free to pop along and say hello! My email address is Sue /sueatpigsty@talktalk.net

x Sue x 

Fruit and Vegetable 'Sunshine Blankets' are finished.

Hi everyone!

Here are our two 'Fruit and Vegetable' Sunshine Blankets now completed. 

We now have 17 Challenge Blankets ready for the homes.

When our current Challenges are finished I will put them all together and find a 

deserving home. 

Can you imagine the conversations the Elderly are going to have over our Blankets once again?

I'm sure these two Blankets will bring back many happy memories of when they planted their own vegetables. I know my Grandmother loved her small garden. 

It's nice to see the two Blankets together like this.
Makes you realise how much work has gone into these Squares.

Thanks to everyone for taking part in this Challenge.

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x Sue x

'Five-a-day!'

Good afternoon everyone!

I am very happy to be showing you the second of the Fruit and Vegetable blankets. It's called 'Five-a-day!'  I've had such fun making these blankets up and I would like to thank everyone for sending in the Squares for this particular Challenge. You certainly have used your creativity once again to make these amazing Squares.  The blanket is slightly larger than our usual 25 Squares it's comprising this time of 30, once again though a nice lap blanket size.

This Challenge has been very popular indeed. 

Can you spot Mr. Onion? 

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I can just imagine the Elderly talking about this blanket. 

It's so colourful and really interesting, what fun!

Thanks once again to you all!

x Sue x 

A cwtch from Cardiff.

Good evening,

I am very pleased to be showing you a blanket that has arrived from divip (RAV/Wales) today. This blanket is just so soft and made in beautiful pastel granny squares. This is the first blanket that has been made by divip for 'SIBOL', and it's an absolute pleasure to receive it. What beautiful colours have been used in this blanket.

We certainly are receiving some beautiful blankets for the Elderly and I know that this one too is just going to be loved by an Elderly person. It's very summery I love it. Thank you so much divip I am very grateful to you.

Let's take a look now. I did ask divip if she had a name and she came up with 'A cwtch from Cardiff'. She said in her mail, "I don't have a name and yippee it's my first blanket clearly isn't a suitable name :) In Wales we call a cuddle a cwtch so maybe a cwtch from Cardiff  - I'll be happy with whatever choice is made. To pronounce cwtch  its c as in cat , w as in the double oo in hook  ignore the t and ch as in church".

A great name thank you! The Butterflies were from my stash by the way and match the yarn perfectly!

I've made a Slide Show for you now divip!



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A great blanket!
Thanks for visiting today!




x Sue x