It Started With a Sheep

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The Friends of the Rosie Hospital’s aim is to raise money to buy comforts and equipment that the NHS cannot provide for mothers and babies both in the Rosie Maternity Hospital at Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, Cambridge and in the district.

To raise money, we sell knitted goods under the trading arm ‘Rosie in Stitches’. These goods are made by a group of about 60 kind knitters and sold at local stalls in the Cambridge area and online here, via our rosieinstitches2010 eBay charity store, and on our Rosie in Stitches Facebook page.

Our charity accepts commissions for items that are not in our catalogue.

If we do not already have the yarn in our donated stash then the fee will include the purchase of enough suitable yarn to complete the project

Commissions come via several routes
We received a query on Facebook for “a larger version of a special cardigan with fluffy sheep”.

The special cardigan had been knitted for a newborn baby.

The cardigan has fluffy sheep motifs around the hem and cuffs. The customer asked for a 6 month old’s size.
Once I had sourced a sheep motif the cardigan only took 3 weeks to knit.
We were sent a picture of the toddler wearing the “gorgeous sheep cardigan” whilst driving his toy tractor.

 

 



We have several more requests for funding, so any donations will be gratefully received. All the money raised goes to the Rosie.

 

We can always use any offers of help and new volunteers to support our work. Just contact us on friendsoftherosie@gmail.com

 

 

 

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