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Good Afternoon and thanks for popping into 'Mrs Twins'  today!

Golly the Blankets and Shawls are certainly rolling in this week. It's always a pleasure to receive them. Often your work takes me by surprise and today I have received two very large parcels from Kersey and Linda and the North East Loving Hands Group. It's always like Christmas in my house when I open the parcels as you can imagine.

Let's start with the parcel from Kersey from Carmarthenshire.

Knitting in our Group is very popular and Kersey has Knitted us a  Shawl for the Elderly. A lovely girlie Shawl with a very pretty edging. The colours are just so perfect! Take a look now. There's a lot of sun about today so I'm sorry about the shadows. I do want to get these loaded up before the family come in for the weekend.

So nice thank you Kersey.

Kersey has also Knitted two 'Sunshine Blankets' You are clever these are simply beautiful.

As you can see this is a large Blanket which is folded over for photo purposes. I love the colours and I can tell you it will be so warm for someone.

Then we have a smaller one.

We have to think of names now for these wonderful Blankets.

With the help of the Ladies on RAVELRY it shouldn't be too difficult.

Here's the Link. 

Kersey I really appreciate your help thank you so much. You have made them so well.

I just love them. I shall take them to the Homes very soon.

Now I would like to thank Linda and the North East Group of Loving Hands. It's always so nice to involve other Knitting Groups and once again today I am really surprised at the amount of Blankets and Shawls included in the parcel.

Everything in the parcel has been made beautifully.

I would like to thank every one who has supported the SIBOL project.

I am going to do my best to tell you who's sent what but the bits of paper went flying everywhere. Let's see how we go.

Linda has made some Shawls for the Elderly.

What beautiful patterns and lovely colours!

The Luana Shawl

can be found here

The Gentle Ripple Shawl

The Nola Shawl 

below.

Shawls come in all shapes and sizes. These are beautiful thank you.

We have a Grey Shawl from Barbara now.

Another beauty! 

You Ladies from Loving Hands are kind! 

I found a pretty Grey and White Butterfly to decorate Barbara. Ladies in the Homes just love them. Thank you very much indeed it's superb. 

A Knitted Blanket from Ann which has a pretty Crocheted border. Isn't it nice when you can combine Knitting and Crocheting together? Such bright Squares I love them. Thank you!

Gorgeous thank you!

I told you it was like Christmas Day!

Next we have 'The Follow' made by Lynn and Beth.

A nice Chunky Blanket which will keep someone so lovely and warm.

Decorated with a Flower and Butterfly it's so striking I think.

Thank you both very much.

We have some more Shawls now. Lynn and Beth these Shawls are stunning! You've certainly taken the idea on board many thanks!

This is the famous 'Mile a Minute' pattern found on You Tube!

I love the colour combinations don't you?

You can see the pattern better on the above photo.

A beautiful Red and Black one. Wow! I love it.

A great selection of different Squares and different Ripples make this Blanket really interesting to look at. I love the colour combinations once again. Take a look now.

I do hope I have everything Blogged now.

It's been such a lovely day taking photographs of your fantastic work.

May I thank Kersey for your donations to the 'SIBOL' project and also to Linda and the Ladies from the North East Loving Hands Group.

You are all so terribly kind.

Todays work brings us up to

709 'Sunshine Blankets' from January 2010.

Thank you all!

If you would like to join us

PLEASE POP OVER TO RAVELRY.

HERE'S THE LINK. 

Congratulations 700 Sunshine Blankets now!

Good Morning,

I am very pleased to be telling you that yesterday we reached our 700th Sunshine Blanket. What an achievement! Our Group was started in January 2010 and since then we have been working very hard indeed trying to bring a little Sunshine into the Lives of the Elderly.  It's always such a pleasure to hand deliver your Blankets and I know where each and every Blanket has found it's home.

Yesterday I received 'Sunshine Blankets' from Pippa and Chalky's World and with this bumper delivery we actually clocked up 704 Blankets. So well done to both of you and thanks to everyone else who has supported the SIBOL Project.

The Blankets that I receive are always so different and I can honestly say that no two are the same. Made lovingly by all of you they give a great deal of comfort to an Elderly person.  On my visit to Willow Grange on Monday it was really lovely to see some of our Blankets already in use. I looked around the Lounge of the Home and noticed quite a few on the laps of the Residents so I can tell you first hand how useful they are.

May I show you the Blankets that I received yesterday.

Decorated with Ribbons and Butterflies these surely are going to be loved.

What a great way to use the Granny Square! The next Blanket was actually a 'take a bag' that Chalky's World has put together for me. The border finishes it off beautifully. Thank you so much for your help Chalky's World and also for sending Ribbon to me which will be very useful!

(Candle dish from Ikea).

Have you ever popped over to Chalky's World? Here's the Link. Her Blog is well worth a visit so please pop over.

The other Blanket that I received was from Pippa. This is a very pretty Knitted Blanket and the Squares were made by Irene our 90 year old SIBOLETTE. A lovely set of Squares and a beautiful border make this another stunning 'Sunshine Blanket'. I love the colours in this one.

Well a wonderful selection of Blankets thank you both so...much!

Once again Congratulations to you all!

x Sue  x

Shawls and Sunshine Blankets delivered today!

 Good Afternoon,

A very  busy day here today.  First of all this morning I had two fantastic 'Sunshine Blankets' arrive from MarilynJG. The first one is called 'Lilac Lattice' and the second one is 'Stained Glass Blanket'. These two Blankets are really unusual. I love the colours in both of them and I love the patterns. MarilynJG they must have taken you ages to make. I'm sure they are going to be admired in the Homes and I know they will give two Elderly Residents a great deal of comfort.

Let's take a look at them now.  Here's 'Lilac Lattice' and here's the LINK. 

Isn't it lovely? The colours are beautiful.

The second one is 'Stained Glass Blanket'. Here's the Link if you'd like to try it.

A fantastic combination of colours. Thank you very much MarilynJG.

As you know every couple of months I visit a Home or two. Back in February I visited Willow Grange Care Home in Olton, Solihull.  Our Blankets were accepted very well indeed by the Members of Staff and I promised to go back with another 24 so that every Resident in the Home could receive one.  A few days ago I started getting the Blankets ready and once again it surprises me how quickly they add up.

The idea of making Shawls for the Homes has gone down very well indeed and today when I visited Willow Grange I took along 13 with me.   Here's a photo of Willow Grange Care Home in Olton.




I arranged with Nikki to go in at 2.00pm and although she was in a meeting when I arrived the Members of Staff very kindly agreed to have a photo taken. They admired the Blankets greatly not to
mention the Shawls. They just loved them.  Looking around the Lounge at the Home I could see our
Blankets being used so I know they are very useful to them. All the Staff Members wanted me to thank you all for the Blankets they realise what a lot of work goes in to them. So a Big Thank you! They absolutely loved the idea of the Shawls so well done to everyone!

Have a lovely afternoon and thanks for visiting today!

x Sue x

Must show you!

Good Afternoon and welcome!

I've had a large parcel arrive this morning from Pat and I'm very grateful for everything that she has sent to the SIBOL Project.  She certainly has been very busy indeed making Shawls and Blankets of her own and also very kindly assembling some Crocheted Squares from Lynnes222 (USA) which arrived some time ago.  These have arrived in time for my visits to the Homes and I know there is going to be some really happy Residents. So let's take a look now at what was in the parcel.

First we had some Knitted Shawls that Pat has made herself.

Also a very pretty Crocheted Shawl. These Granny Squares are so 

interesting to look at and I know it will keep someone very warm indeed.

Pretty Granny Square Blankets were enclosed in the parcel. A good size, beautiful colour combinations and they are so warm!

Superb! Thank you!

Not only has Pat made her own Blankets and Shawls she has helped me assemble some Squares from the States. I would like to thank Lynnes222 for sending them some time ago.

What a pretty Shawl for someone!

Next some Blankets.

Pat you've made ever such a lovely job of putting  these Squares together thank you.

Lynnes222 the Squares you have made are just so interesting. What a great selection of patterns and the Blankets are so colourful. I'm very grateful to both of you thank you.

What an interesting delivery today!

Thank you! 

x Sue x