Over the past nine months or so, I’ve been contributing to the Sixty Million Trebles Project – highlighting the plight of the sixty million refugees in the world (in fact, there’s now more than sixty-five million). The idea was to make blankets to send to refugees and for each stitch (a standard UK crochet stitch is called a ‘treble’) to represent one refugee. Three knitting stitches are equivalent to one crochet treble… you can, therefore, perhaps begin to imagine the huge amount of work that has gone into this.
Originally, the plan was to create a world record-breaking blanket. However, it gradually dawned on the group that the blankets were actually desperately needed by displaced people and so it was agreed that we would set aside the world record attempt and get the blankets to where they would keep people warm. Boxes and boxes have already gone to Syria to a hospital caring for premature babies, but the main bulk of the blankets are destined to travel to those in need later this month. So, feeling a little sad at seeing them go, I’ve just completed my last ‘refugee blanket’ and packed up my final three (totalling 97,258 trebles) to go off to one of the big collection points.
Prior to this, I’d made eight smaller blankets (plus a bigger one that went to a different charity – Knit for Peace) and these had already been dropped off in person at one of the collection points. Here they all are (as well as one of those in the current batch):
The grand total for the 60MT project so far is 55 million trebles, so you can see how close we are. After this big dispatch, further blankets are destined for various UK charities as it was agreed that we also wanted to support people in need closer to home.
For now, though, I’m going to concentrate on some personal projects and finishing some neglected WIPs*
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* WIP = Work In Progress
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coppicelearner
/ August 6, 2017Well done! They are lovely and I hope they will take messages of love as well as warmth to those who receive them. What a lovely project.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 6, 2017Each one has a little message with it 🙂
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Murtagh's Meadow
/ August 6, 2017Very well done. A great achievement for a very worthy cause.
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thecontentedcrafter
/ August 6, 2017What a wonderful contribution you have made – the world needs more people like you! xo
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Catherine
/ August 6, 2017What a wonderful idea and you have truly made a great impact with your contributions.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 7, 2017There are some ladies who have made many more blankets than me, but I’m really happy to have done as much as I have.
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katechiconi
/ August 6, 2017That’s one awesome great box full of hugs. Well done…
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anne54
/ August 7, 2017Oh wow! That is wonderful, and an impressive effort. It is good to know that the agony of refugees will be eased a little.
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The Belmont Rooster
/ August 7, 2017What a great project!
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Emma
/ August 7, 2017Such an amazing project. And your blankets look lovely, I’m sure they will be cherished
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iamsimplyhooked
/ August 7, 2017That’s nearly a million trebles you have added to their total – some achievement! I am thinking something like that the one with the nine big squares at the centre might be the easiest (for me) to start off with.
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nanacathy2
/ August 7, 2017Well done you!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 7, 2017Mr Snail may now finally get that pair of socks I’ve been (not) knitting for weeks!
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Laurie Graves
/ August 7, 2017Wow, wow, and wow! Very impressive!
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tialys
/ August 7, 2017Well done – it must have been hard to part with all those stitches but very rewarding to know they will bring comfort to somebody, somewhere.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 8, 2017Some blankets were harder to let go than others, but I just kept reminding myself of the people who really need them… and how much I don’t!
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Bethany-Jade
/ August 8, 2017What a wonderful cause! Fhey are all so lovely!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 8, 2017I’ve been so happy to be able to contribute.
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quietwatercraft
/ August 9, 2017Well done, you! That’s an awful lot of good put into the world 🙂 I love it when crafting can help other people as well
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 9, 2017And if I’d kept them all, we would be wading through blankets!!
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Born To Organize
/ August 13, 2017Jan, you’ve made a wonderful contribution to this project as well as educating those of us that didn’t know what the trebles stood for. Thank you for all you do. The number is staggering. I need to step up my game and learn to crochet with a purpose. xo
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quercuscommunity
/ August 13, 2017Wow! That’s a massive effort. Well done to you and everybody involved.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ August 13, 2017It’s been a real pleasure to participate.
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quercuscommunity
/ August 13, 2017🙂
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