• Home
  • Subscriptions
    • Subscriptions for me
    • Gift subscriptions
  • Shop
    • Shop All
    • Spring edit
    • Bestsellers
    • £15 and under
    • Embroidery kits
    • Paper craft kits
    • Printing, art and casting kits
    • Resin and glass kits
    • Yarn, cord and felting kits
    • Other craft kits
    • Teen and tween edit
    • Christmas craft kits
  • Workshops
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
0
Cosy Craft Club
  • Subscriptions
    • Subscriptions for me
    • Gift subscriptions
  • Shop
    • Shop All
    • Spring edit
    • Bestsellers
    • £15 and under
    • Embroidery kits
    • Paper craft kits
    • Printing, art and casting kits
    • Resin and glass kits
    • Yarn, cord and felting kits
    • Other craft kits
    • Teen and tween edit
    • Christmas craft kits
  • Workshops
  • About
  • Blog
Join our charity craft appeal for Knit for Peace!

Join our charity craft appeal for Knit for Peace!

I love how crafts can be used as a force for good! Several years ago we did a charity craft appeal for blankets for the homeless and I've been itching to do another one, so here we are with our craft appeal for Knit for Peace - I hope you would like to join in!

 

Knit for Peace is a wonderful organisation that donates knitted and crocheted goods to those in need. But what also caught my eye is that they teach vulnerable people (including people in women's prisons and those left bereft by war) the skill of knitting and sells their knits so they can support themselves. What an amazing way to use crafts!

 

I asked Knit for Peace what they most wanted and the response was large blankets, so I'm asking you to knit or crochet squares which can be made into 2 blankets (one knit and one crochet) for them.

 

A pink knitted mitred square and a pink, blue and maroon crochet granny square sit on a table surrounded by yarn, knitting needles and a crochet hook

 

Knitted squares

I've chosen mitred squares for the knitted squares pattern because they're fun to knit and really speed up towards the end! They are knitted with two sides on your needles at one time, and then bend up into a square as you k2tog up through the rows. Please use DK yarn and 4mm needles for your squares. Here's the pattern:

 

Cast on 48 stitches
Row 1: K24, place marker, K24
Row 2: K to 2 stitches before the stitch marker, K2tog, slip marker, K2tog, K to end
Row 3: K to marker, slip marker, K to end

Repeat rows 2 & 3 until you have 4 stitches left on your needles (the rows get shorter so it's quicker to knit!)

K2tog, remove marker, K2tog
K2tog
Cut yarn and pull the end through the last stitch to secure

And that's it! Your finished square should measure approximately 12 x 12cm.

 

If you'd like to see this knitting pattern in action, check out my Instagram post here.

 

Top tip: if you forget which row you're on, look at where the tail is on your first row. For me, the corner with no tail was at the beginning of the K2tog row and the corner with the tail was the K row (this might be the other way round if you did a different cast on)

 

Crochet squares

For the crocheters amongst you, we are doing Granny squares! I crocheted my first ever Granny square for this appeal, and I was so pleased with how easy it was and how lovely it looked!

 

We are doing 5 rounds of treble crochet and one round of double crochet to finish (both UK notation) on our Granny squares. If you haven't crocheted one before, you can follow this tutorial, you just need to do one more round of treble crochet compared to the tutorial. Please use DK yarn and a 4mm hook. Your finished Granny square should measure approximately 13 x 13cm.

 

What do with your squares

If you knit or crochet some squares for our appeal, please drop me an email and I'll give you my address to send them to. All squares should be with me by mid August 2024. Thank you!

 

Rachel x

 

Rachel Kember

30.07.2024

Charity

Blog

Get 10% off

Sign up to get all the latest Cosy Craft Club news and crafty inspiration, and get 10% off your first order

Sign me up!

174-cosy-craft-clubicon-white-17139568984878.svg
Shop
Subscriptions

Gift subscriptions

Gift vouchers

Swaps
Past boxes

Community

Blog

Contact

FAQs

Delivery

Privacy policy

A monthly craft subscription box for adults who love to try different crafts

Proudly based in Bath, UK

All rights reserved • Cosy Craft Club Copyright © 2024
Made by Amperative