Snowman mitts

Over the last few weeks my mind has turned to thinking about Christmas, and with that I've been adding to our stock of Christmas knit wear and I've made some snowman mitts, they are all made from white double knit yarn with individual faces and different coloured hats.

Special care unit.

Way back in 2015 a friend had her baby 6 weeks early, and after 10 days in the special care unit on Christmas Eve they got the phone call to say they could bring the baby home, as you can imagine this was the best Christmas present ever, and after a frantic dash around the shops to get some bits, as they had ordered the pram and cot to be delivered at the end of January when the baby was due, off they went to collect her, and on Boxing Day they brought her round to visit.

As I was on Christmas holidays from work I decided to make a few teeny tiny hats to donate to our local special care unit, all the hats are made from doubled up 4 ply and double knit in super soft baby yarns, over the next few weeks I actually completed 60 hats in various sizes and colours and 12 small blankets.

I contacted the special care unit and arranged a day to deliver them.  Then a few weeks later I got a lovely letter from the ward head midwife thanking me for the donation.


Then I started to make hats, mitts and bottees in bigger sizes, and some shelf teddies and dollies and sold them at a craft fair with all the money raised going to the special care unit, we raised £56.00 in total and we even had people come over and give a donation when they heard where the money was going.

I have a bag of hats ready to go up to the unit again waiting to be washed, I've also made a few little jackets ready to go.