Comments on: Oxfam needs your help knitters!

By: Audrey Astin- Stanley

Audrey Astin- Stanley — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:01:02 +0000

Want to find pattern for T-shaped sweaters for children.Evidently there is an old oxfam pattern somewhwere. Can anyone help?

By: H

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:03:04 +0000

So, what happened? Sounds like a really good idea but I saw no publicity at the time. I work in an Oxfam shop and didn’t hear about it, which is a shame, because it would have been a good thing for getting people together.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:04:00 +0000

O.K. So now the game is over and a small portion of the blanket has been given to Mrs Brown how come there is no report of this either here or on Oxfam’s own web site? The only thing I have seen was a very small picture in The Times with a very strange caption that gave indication of the origin of the ‘quilt’ or it’s significance. Was all our work for nothing?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:51:41 +0000

This is a great idea. How will the blanket be presented to the UK government?

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:53:06 +0000

Hi all, great idea oxfam .My teenage daughter always thought knitting was for the oldies, but when I told her I was going to knit squares for this good cause she actually said she wanted to knit one to. So not all teenagers are bad and we now have another knitter in the pack.
Great Goals everybody.

By: Bev Q

Bev Q — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:51:15 +0000

If your readers would like some more patterns to use I have plenty on this page:

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/grannies.html

I also have this knitted 9″ square pattern on my site
http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/stephs-blanket.html

Bev of
http://www.bevscountrycottage.com

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:10:05 +0000

I trust that once the woolly banner has made it’s point that it will be transformed into thousands of useful sized blankets and put to good use? I couldn’t bear the waste otherwise !!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:10:03 +0000

Michael said: “But when I did a ‘diamond’ type square the increase sides measured 9″ O.K. but the decrease edges came up in excess of 10″ and would be kinder difficult for the Oxfam folks to sew into a blanket. Your instructions did say no odd shape squares. I just pulled it out and started again the straightforward way.”

I’ve always handknits blankets squares diagonally, and yes, I’ve produced some decidedly pear shaped “squares”, But if you sew them together sympathetically (ie, with an eye to the extra length on two sides), all comes out well in the wash… Similarly my machine knit blankets aren’t always composed of perfect squares, even though they’re knitted as cast on X, knit Y rows, but by the time they’re put together and so on, they keep the warm in as well graph paper velvet.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:33:31 +0000

Answer for Geraldine regarding the Oxfam T shaped jumpers.
No Oxfam don’t take the T shaped jumpers any more. The transport costs became too much. They will however accept the blankets, these do not go out to the 3rd world anymore for the same reason. They are sold at music festivals to raise funds.

By: Josephine

Josephine — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:02:15 +0000

Hello knitters!

I’ve just noticed a little error in the postcode… It should be
LS1 2NL

Happy knitting!