The item I want to talk about is a blanket that I knitted for the Sands Charity, if you don't know what this is it's a charity that supports anyone affected by the death or still birth of a baby. I knitted a shawl last year to go into one of their memory boxes. I received a lovely thank you card from Sands, but I often wonder about the person that received my shawl. Did they use it to cover the tiny baby for burial, did they take it home. This I will never know but I hope that in some way it helped them. I cannot imagine the loss of a child that you have carried for 9 months. The expection that you will have a healthy baby, then to come home with empty arms. If you have time please knit a shawl, unfortunately 17 babies die or are stillborn every day in the UK.
What a lovely blanket! I am not a good knitter, but I do have 5 knitting machines (that have not seen the light of day in years)
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What a beautiful shawl, and a beautiful thing to do. I hope I can do the same one day.
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