Having a knitting night tonight

I have combined forces with a girlfriend to knit for our local hospital prem unit. We are hoping to start a knitting and nattering group. There will be 3 of us tonight.

Does anyone else have get togethers?

My cousin and I have this autumn started getting together for a night of knitting with a couple of friends. We originally planned to do this weekly, but that was too ambitious with all our other commitments. So now we meet fortnightly and alternate the venue around each others homes. Four is a nice number, but we would be happy for others to join in too. I also belong to an all female (by default, no guys showed up) book group - much needed "girl time" for me because I live in a nearly all male household.

We had fun. It was nice catching up and being productive at the same time.

Husband decided to do some baking for us. He does not follow recipes and just throws in whatever he wants. Very interesting results.

We have decided to break the year down into 3 projects and knit for them. Pregnancy Help and House of Grace are 2 we are thinking of.

Great idea about the prem-knitting.. a friend of mine worked in New Plymouth in the prem unit and used to get a group of ladies who did the same thing allowing them to send out 'kits' with all the littilies going home with the promise that the parents would return once grown out of with one further item added...

just be careful to make them very very tiny.. a lot of the knitted stuff was way to large for the tiny ones... good on you though!!!

Good on ya mate. when my niece was in having her very prem baby in the Wellington Neo nate unit, I knitted so many wee hats and sock thingies.

Do you want a couple of knitting patterns for prem babies? Managed to collect a few when my two were born and can easily scan them in and e-mail them.

That would be fantastic. Yes, please.

I don't suppose its possible to put them on here is it? Then people can easily access them and more prem-clothes can be made. Outlets are any neo-natal hospital or home, Plunket and welfare groups that help people with low incomes. Church foodbanks are another way of sending out knitting. They hear of people in need and can forward your knitting onto young children in cold uninsulated houses.

We have a lady in our town who helps people find accomodation and helps with bedding and clothing if needed. (There are some small communities around the Bay of Islands and all over the Far North that are mostly just scraping by). So Mum and I knit children's clothes for this lady to hand out, when she sees the need. It uses the wool that I spin and helps kids stay healthy.