Blankets for orphans

This is the first blanket we made to send overseas to a needy orphan. Bianca and I knitted most of the squares, with a few coming from our de Boer friends and one or two from Monique or Jarrod. We sewed them all together - Bianca chose the order - and then I crocheted around the outside to finish it off. We sent it off via England to South Africa. We really enjoyed making it, and while there was the odd patterned square, most of them were plain knit, and we were able to make one square each evening during story time. In 2008, we started another blanket each; with Jarrod and Monique doing squares for yet another one. Nana Jago contributed quite a few squares for that one too, while she was staying with us in June. Bianca is about halfway through her blanket, I am over halfway, and we need to do black squares for the third one.

We also did a bit of knitting for other charities: beanies, teddies, aids baby jumpers; most of which we haven't sent off yet. Then I got into knitting dishcloths - of all things!