The Canaan Trust – Hats for the Homeless Continued.
This is a follow up to my blog Hats for the Homeless
published Sunday 16th August 2015. For those that have read it they
will know that I was knitting items for the homeless. Last week I finally
managed to pop into our local homeless charity for men:
The Canaan Trust
Jordan House
14 Main Street
Long Eaton
Derbyshire
NG10 1GR
Tel: 0115 9464903
Email: office@canaan-trust.co.uk
Registered Charity 1105657
I took the items from the last Blog with me (two hats and
two scarves). However since then I have been knitting some additional items. I
have after washing, drying and unravelling the yarn found that I have lots of
small pieces in a variety of colours.
Rather than throw these small pieces away I thought it would
be a good idea to join them altogether to make a sort of tie-dye effect ball of
yarn. I decided with this yarn I would make some blankets. These blankets would
be for homeless people's pets. After all dogs need to be kept warm when the
temperatures drop too.
The blankets were knitted in garter stitch (plain) I cast on
100 stitches on 5mm needles. I chose some traditional male colours Blue, Green
and also Aqua.
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Blue Doggy Blanket Front Side
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| Blue Doggy Blanket Back Side |
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| Blue Doggy Blanket 2 Front Side |
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| Blue Doggy Blanket 2 Back Side |
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| Green Doggy Blanket Front Side |
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| Green Doggy Blanket Back Side |
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| Green Doggy Blanket 2 Front Side |
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| Green Doggy Blanket 2 Back Side |
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| Aqua Doggy Blanket Front Side |
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| Aqua Doggy Blanket Back Side |
As you can see from the above photographs the blankets are a
bit irregular in shape. The first one I did was roughly 200 rows and measured
approximately 20 inches by 20 inches. This I used as a guide for the other
blankets. The reason for the irregular shape is due to the fact that yarn was
not only different colours but also types and therefore different widths.
Hopefully I will be able to make some more hats and scarves
for the charity especially as this year it is supposedly going to be a very bad
winter. The Canaan Trust is always appreciative of donations both monetary and
otherwise.
Recent request
21st October 2015
Furniture needed.......
We are delighted to share the news that another of our guys has received the keys
to his own small flat. It will need a lot of work on it to make it into a home
but with your help we can make it happen.
Like a number of our guys he is a father and having his own
place will mean that he can share the joy of now being able to have his children
around him again.
One kind supporter has already offered
a bed. But it would be great if we could find him a small sofa, table and
chairs, wardrobe, small fridge, maybe even a cooker.
Can you help? If you can
please give the office a call 0115 946 4903.
We do have another resident
who is on the verge of signing for his flat so we will be needed further help
in the next week, Unfortunately we do not have any storage so if you can help,
and don't need the item moving out immediately again we would love to hear from
you.
