hats

Well, we are back from Fibre East and have recovered from the busy weekend. We had a great time catching up with supporters and meeting new ones. I was there all day on Saturday and Clare all day Sunday and quite a good chunk of Saturday too. I had a […]

Fabulous Fun at Fibre East

August 6, 2013 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / fibre east / fundraising / hats / just giving / knitting / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / pattern / phop / socks / Thank you by Katestwirl

Dear knitters and crocheters Thank you very much for all the hats you have made for MSF’s clinic in Pakistan. As you can see we were overwhelmed with your kindness. These are only around half the hats as you made a whopping 433 hats (yes we counted them all). At […]

433 small hats!

June 18, 2012 in All Blog posts / knitting tagged hats / msf / Pakistan / Thank you by Clare

Before Pete finished his job at MSF I put him to work on one last p/hop job; measuring the hundreds of small hats you’ve generously made and sent in so we can sort them by size. Of course he couldn’t resist trying some of them on. We’ve been really overwhelmed […]

One last job

May 17, 2012 in All Blog posts / knitting tagged hats / knitting / Pakistan / Thank you by Clare

We’ve had a great response to our request for handknitted/crocheted small hats for the MSF hospital in Qetta, Pakistan. THANK YOU to everyone who has sent hat(s) in so far. To date, we’ve received over 100 and my desk is by far the most colourful one in the office. Hat […]

Small hats update

April 17, 2012 in All Blog posts / knitting tagged hats / knitting / malnutrition / msf / Pakistan / premature / Qetta by Clare

We’ve already had a great response to our request for baby and children’s knitted hats to send to MSF’s clinic in Qetta, Pakistan. Check out our lovely Ravelry group who are busy knitting away, sharing hat patterns and tips. p/hop supporter Nic has written a beautiful blog post about why she […]

Happy Mother’s Day

March 18, 2012 in All Blog posts / msf tagged baby / hats / maternal / maternal mother's day / mother's day / msf / obstetric by Clare

Last week in the MSF office I met Dr Miroslav who had just returned from working in an MSF hospital in Qetta, Pakistan. MSF runs a neonatal unit there and Dr Miroslav told me they need baby hats to keep the premature babies and malnourished kids warm. While this is […]

We need tiny hats

March 7, 2012 in All Blog posts / knitting tagged baby / hats / knitted / Pakistan / premature by Clare