care squares

Send a Message with your Care Square

Here are some gorgeous pink Care Squares ready to be sewn together.

Each Care Square is hand stitched to its neighbour. Until, finally, a lovely blanket is made.

Posted by jules at 08:40 1 comments

jules: On March 16 2009 my son George was born 3 months premature and spent all his 9 days of life in Queen Charlotte's Neo Natal Ward. Because I was very ill at the time, I couldn't always be there to see him. But whenever I did, he would have a different little blanket folded carefully over him. These blankets meant so much: they were proof that a nurse had been caring for him and tending to him; when I couldn't. The blanket was also an object of softness in the medical ward. The blankets were my comfort, as much as George's. When I finally left hospital I was determined to learn to knit so I could make a blanket, or dozens (!) of blankets to give to the ward. Knitting, though, wasn't my forte. Luckily it is my mother's: she made 90 squares which my friend Sandra and I sewed into a lovely pink blanket to give to Queen Charlotte's. The nurses told me how useful all the blankets they receive are, so I thought of creating blankets made from squares; with each square (care square) made by a different person. This would give family and friends affected by the birth of a premature baby a chance to do something both useful and loving. It's a little gift that means so much.

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