Angel hug

Again, a quote from the WoollyHugs team:

'We have been very moved by a request from the Octavia Appeal at the Brompton Hospital. The Brompton Hospital is a specialist heart and lung centre in London complete with the second largest paediatric intensive care unit in the country. This unit takes the sickest babies and children from all over, some transferred immediately after birth, others have become too sick to be cared for at other major hospitals and most are already on life support when they arrive. These babies and children are incredibly sick, and very sadly not all survive. The Octavia Appeal have approached us and asked if we are able to make blankets for these babies who have very sadly passed away.'

I'll be honest - my first thought was 'I can't do that' - because, basically, I don't want to spend much time thinking about what they were actually for. I thought it would upset me too much (selfish, I know). But what changed my mind was seeing the pictures of the beautiful blankets that others had started to make. I felt I wanted to be a part of that. 

So this is my blanket:

If you look closely, you can see the slight mistake section with character.

But, overall, not a bad effort I feel.

And - [preen] - the actual, real, one-and-only Debbie Bliss herself of yarn fame 'liked' it on Facebook.
<squeeeeeeee>

Yes way.

The pattern designer has asked for any mentions of it online to be linked back to this pattern here. 

Again, I can only hope it brings some tiny shred of comfort.