THE KNIT-A-SQUARE BLANKET ALBUM 2013
This photographic album will provide a record of blankets made up from the lovingly created squares sent to South Africa from all corners of the globe. Various groups have laboured in SA to join the squares together to form these wonderfully warm blankets for the children to sleep under and to be used as wrap-round coats during the cold winter days.
The beauty of all this wonderfully generous work is that one square can be can be stitched together on four sides by squares made by members from many different countries - clearly demonstrating the caring capacity of people who work with yarn!
Once the first 95 blankets are posted, I'll go through the records and add others that have been created from members squares. Due to the passage in time it won't be possible to date all of these blankets, however, having recognised some squares from earlier in the year it is likely that 1 - 95 were posted to South Africa this year!
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As requested, here is a little bit about Lorinda from Ronda : Lorinda is a new contact in South Africa (about 3 months ago) and discovered KAS on the web whilst working with projects through her church outreach - aimed at reaching out to orphaned and vulnerable children in the Sabie area. Lorinda said she would love to have some KAS items to distribute on our behalf.
Sabie is a small town on the Sabie River in Mpumulanga Province, which is in the east of the country and close to Kruger National Park - about 3.5 hours from Johannesburg by road. Sabie is close to a very large area named Bushbuckridge which is extremely poor and in which there are large squatter settlements.
Lorinda started off with some squares and a few beanies, but has since managed to arrange, on two occasions, for people from Sabie visiting Johannesburg, to collect beanies & jerseys and more squares. The team is working like a Trojan - as we can all see from the first 41 blankets!
Ronda commented that it is wonderful when people are enthusiastic and you can see that they are on the same page.....and of course, it's lovely to spread the joy into other provinces of South Africa!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Anne Fellows on
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These are all beautiful & I especially love the peach, tan & brown blanket!! Gorgeous!
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Permalink Reply by ann clements on
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wow beautiful blankets so warm and snuggly
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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on
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That last one could have come from a knitting magazine. They are all such a feast for the eyes!
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Permalink Reply by Jana Benitez on
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Someone has the touch on putting these together. NICE JOB!
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Permalink Reply by Pam Antink on
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Wendy's camera has captured more of the lovely and creative blankets :
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beautiful blankets again
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Permalink Reply by Bev Jeffery on
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Just love all the colours put into each blanket....makes them soooooo colourful and cheery.
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Permalink Reply by Sue Gillman on
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The blankets are our "finished product" and it is always exciting to see them displayed. Every blanket is a winner. I am always amazed at the work that goes into getting them all together.
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A lovely restful feast for the eyes. I see again and again the single color pj's coming through shining and making the blankets striped and patterned squares work well together. What strikes me most is how much sheer volume of work and love and dedication is going on here. It's very humbling and very heartwarming to see all this. Thank you SO MUCH for these grand photos Wendy!
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Lovely! Great job of putting them all together - knit & crochet in one blanket.
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Wendy's camera has been working overtime recently in order to provide us with the blankets!
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I love no 8 and 9.
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