Happy Christmas to everyone!

Happy Christmas 

to everyone!

Love and Best Wishes from Sue

x Sue x 

A little late.....

Good Evening,

I would like to thank Myrna today for some beautiful Sunshine Blankets and Knitted items.

I am afraid you are a little late now my closing date was end of November but I will be taking 

these out next year for you. I'm sorry I can't go out to the Homes again this year as I'm getting

ready for Christmas.   If anyone else has anything for me would you please hold on to it until the 

New Year. Thanks ever so much.

Let's take a look at what Myrna has sent to me. Some beautiful Crocheted Blankets with Butterflies

attached and some lovely warm items for the Elderly.  I am very grateful to you Myrna you have

given such a lot of your time to our 'SIBOL' project and I know everything will be appreciated by 

the Homes.

Thanks so much.

x Sue x

Christmas is a 'comin!'

Hi everyone!

I am sorry I can not accept any more 'SIBOL' items now until after the New Year.

Thanks to everyone!

It's time to look back now on previous Sunshine Blankets. that we have delivered to Care Homes. 

Our 'Snowman' and 'Christmas' Challenges from years ago.

So appropriate for this time of year.

x Sue x 

'Dancing Light' arrives today!

Good afternoon and welcome!

I AM NOT ACCEPTING ANY MORE SIBOL ITEMS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. PLEASE SEND AFTER JANUARY 2ND. MANY THANKS. 

I would like to thank 'Purlygalore' today for a beautiful Knitted Sunshine Blanket that she has made and donated to 'SIBOL'.  Purlygalore has called the Blanket 'Dancing Light'  and I'm sure you will agree this is a perfect name.  If you would like to pop over to her RAVELRY page you will be able to
read all about the making of the Blanket and the beautiful Stylecraft yarn that she has used. The combination of colours is spot on. I love this Blanket.  Here's the LINK.

Now for some photos.

Some pretty Butterflies too! Thank you so much Purlygalore for 'Dancing Light' and indeed the Butterflies.

I will be taking this Blanket out very soon.

x Sue x

My final Delivery of the year!

Good Afternoon and Welcome!

Today I went out on my very last Delivery of the year. 8 Sunshine  Blankets to St. Michael's Care Home for the Elderly in  Olton near to where I live.  I would like to thank  Julie  for accepting our Blankets and also to everyone that has donated them.

The Sunshine Blankets are always very welcome in the Homes by the Residents and Julie would like me to thank you all for your kindness.

We have had a very successful year making Sunshine Blankets and Shawls and I hope that we can do the same next year. I am very eager to reach our 1,000th Blanket!

Here's Julie accepting our Blankets.

May I remind you that I can't accept any more Sunshine Blankets and Shawls  now until the New Year when we will start  all over again!

Thanks to everyone for their  beautiful work again this year you are all such talented Ladies. Everyone admires your work and I'm really proud of what we have achieved.

Thank you 

x Sue x 

Delivering Christmas Gifts to a local Care Home today!

Good Afternoon,

PLEASE NOTE THAT I CANNOT ACCEPT ANY MORE SIBOL ITEMS THIS YEAR. WE WILL ACCEPT AGAIN JANUARY 2ND ONWARDS MANY THANKS  FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I would like to thank everyone for sending me Christmas Gifts for the Elderly. We've had such a good response that I decided to split the items between two Homes. Today I was taking the last lot to The Grove Care Home in Solihull.

I rang up this morning and went off to meet Jayne.  I did ask her a while ago if they wanted any Knitted items and she said that they would be very useful. They often have trips out in the mini bus to various places so Knitted wear would be appreciated.

Loaded up with a box full to the brim I went off.

I was so proud of the items that we had made. Beautiful Scarves and Fingerless Gloves, Bed Socks, Hats and Gloves etc., are going to be very useful to the Home.

Jayne kindly agreed to having her photo taken but somehow my iphone wouldn't go off 'video'.

We both tried to swipe it over to 'photos' but in the end we took a video of Jayne saying 'Thank you!'

She tried one of our Hats on.

Thank you so much Jayne for acceping our items it was lovely to meet you again.

Here's the video I hope! 

This is Jayne - Deputy Manager of The Grove Care Home, Solihull

thanking you all.

It is very quiet sorry. 

A Big Thank you to everyone that has made a Warm item for the Residents in Care Homes. They have all been very much appreciated.

x Sue x

I'm back with an email I have received from Lyndon - The Manager at Grove Care Home. I thought you might like to read it.

Hello Sue 
I came back from my morning meeting to find a wonderful box of hats and gloves. You are all so very kind. Already two of the ladies who suffer with cold hands have a set each and they are so happy with them. Please say a very big thank you to all of your ladies. Can I also say a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to you and your ladies along with all of your families. 
Again thank you so much. 
Regards 
Lyndon Green 
Manager 
The Grove Residential Home (Solihull)

Delivery Day of Shawls today!

Hello everyone!

PLEASE NOTE THAT I CANNOT ACCEPT ANY MORE SIBOL ITEMS THIS YEAR. WE WILL ACCEPT AGAIN JANUARY 2ND ONWARDS MANY THANKS  FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I do hope you will scroll down and see what's new today! I've had such a busy day once again with lots of beautiful work arriving at my home.  After lunch I decided  to phone up Kingsleigh House, Birmingham to see if they would like to accept donations of Shawls. Like our Sunshine Blankets these come in so quickly and it always surprises me how hard you all work! Each one is so....different and I just love the variety of patterns.

With this one added to from 'jessiebonbon' (see previous post).

Off I went with Shawls loaded up in to two boxes.

The Manager Alan wasn't available but two of his Staff accepted the Shawls.

They are a sister Home to Olivet, who I visited last Friday. Once again the Home is a very
friendly one and I know that our Shawls will make a difference. The Lady on the Left said
how much the Blankets brighten up their Residents' rooms.  They said a Big Thank You!

Let's hope we can make plenty more next year.

x Sue x

The last items before Christmas arrive. Thank you.

Good Morning to you all!

I would like to thank 'jessiebonbon' this morning for sending in a pair of Fingerless Gloves and a Shawl. Both made beautifully I'm going to add these to my deliveries. How nice of you to make them I know it's difficult when we all have our familes to think about. They are very much appreciated many thanks.

Let's take a look now.

A great pattern 'jessiebonbon'.

I also had three Sunshine Blankets arrive from Angela. I haven't got an email address for you but I will be putting a note in the post to you to thank you. Whether you see my Blog I'm not sure.

The three Sunshine Blankets are so colourful and I know they will be admired. All three are a great size and ideal to use over laps.

So thank you Angela.

A parcel was delivered to my neighbour this morning while I was out.

It has been sent by Sue & Sue 'Trebles and Purls'.

Inside were Christmas Gift items and Sunshine Blankets.

Just take a look at these!

I can't believe I've reached 930 Sunshine Blankets now! It wasn't five minutes ago we had reached our 900th Sunshine Blanket! These Blankets are wonderful. A lot of work must have gone in to them thank you so much. They are an ideal size and will be so warm.

We also have Christmas Gifts for Residents in the Homes. Two ribbed Scarves will keep two Residents warm and Fingerless Gloves will be perfect too. Made in great colours. Thank you both so much!

Another busy day and I think I am waiting for one more Sunshine Blanket now which should be on it's way.

Thank you all so very much. I know the Residents are going to love what we've made for them.

Please do not send anything else now. Could you leave it till after Christmas now please.

Thanks so much.

x Sue x

A pretty Flower Sunshine Blanket and more Shawls!

Good morning and welcome!

The final items are arriving at my home for this years last delivery. As you know my closing date was end of November but a couple of Ladies have told me that their work is on the way. So I will hold on for you. I am hopefully going out to my last home later on this week.  Our blankets have been accepted so well and this morning I received an email from Jane at Olivet, Birmingham.  

She says, 

"Once again, on behalf of everyone at Olivet and our other homes, thank you to you and all your online knitters for such wonderful blankets.  It is so nice to pass the residents' rooms and see a blanket on the bed brightening it up and keeping their feet warm."

Thank you Jane

Another blanket that will certainly be brightening someone's room is this one received from Gwyneth this morning. Made in Green, Yellow and white this is a very spring-like blanket. A great size too and would probably suit someone that liked their garden. I'm sure this one like all the other blankets  we have made will be talking points for many days to come after receiving them.  

A superb Sunshine blanket made by Gwyneth. Thank you so much I love it.

I've done my best with photos but it's quite dark today.

Next we have two more Shawls from baw1812.  Thank you so much for these pretty Shawls, your hook has been smoking this year with all your wonderful donations. These Shawls are certainly addictive.

Pretty Butterflies too to add to our Butterfly collection.

I've made one too this one is going to Irene's neighbour 'Eileen' who is taking it to
Lady Katherines' Home at Balsall Common.

Thank you Gwyneth and baw1812 your work is lovely and very much appreciated.

That's all for today, may I remind you now that I cannot accept anything else for this year.
There's nothing to stop you Knitting and Crocheting but please hold on to everything until
2nd January 2015.

x Sue x