Dublin Knitters

fundraising drive for Haiti & Heart for Children Ireland

In DUBLIN EVENT on 6 February 2010 at 9:32

Fundraising Drive for Haiti and Heart Children Ireland

A unique fundraising drive is taking place on Sunday February 14th at the Pavilions
Shopping Centre in Swords.

Knitters, Crocheters and Stitchers from all over Dublin are coming together to create handmade blankets for children undergoing heart surgery.  Each square created will be sponsored, the event will also support the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. All money raised with go directly to Partners in Health, the
international charity headed up in Haiti by Dublin doctor Louise Ivers.

Anyone can take part by sponsoring a participant or by generating some sponsorship and then knitting, crocheting or sewing a square – any colour, any design – measuring 6 inches by 6 inches, either at the event or in advance. The squares will be joined into blankets and donated directly to Heart Children Ireland, who gift them to cardiac patients as comfort blankets in the intensive care unit of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin following heart surgery.

The event will run all day from 10am to 6pm at the Pavilions Shopping Centre, and everyone is welcome.

Some wool and knitting needles/crochet hooks will be available for use at the event. Odds and ends of wool and completed squares will be gratefully received.

For further information or sponsorship forms please contact:

Máire Jones, 087-9676094
or email knitasquareandshowyoucare@gmail.com

a woolly valentine…

In KNIT IN THE CITY on 5 February 2010 at 23:21

The DKC held it’s first themed SnB last Wednesday…

A few hearts where made as we drank some hot chocolate and nibbled on a few chocolate cookies.

The woolly heart pattern is now available. There is some of the boucle yarn available, which chicwithstix will bring along to this Saturday’s City Centre SnB.

DKC Valentine SnB…

In KNIT IN THE CITY on 3 February 2010 at 7:27

DKC is hosting a Valentine SnB at The Chocolate Bar this evening from 6pm to 8:30pm.  Come along and knit yourself a Valentine…

If you can’t make it to our KAL, the pattern will be posted sometime today.