Spin me a yarn!

Following the sell out of its first knitting book, Best Yarn Forward, Feed The Children UK has produced a worthy follow up, Next Best Yarn, with patterns from top designers. The book raises funds for Feed The Children and many knitters donate finished clothes to the charity including sending a donation with the item to help with shipping costs.

“Feed The Children’s knitting supporters are so important to our humanitarian work that our second knitting book, Next Best Yarn, has just gone on sale and the newsletter, Knitting Knews, is being mailed out to all our knitting contributors and is available on line at www.feedthechildren.org.uk” says chief executive officer, Brian Main.

Next Best Yarn costs just £3.50 with £1.50 for postage and includes patterns by professional knitting designers Heather Cawte and Mary-Louise Quick. Mary Louise’s design is a pretty, feminine top for a girl and Heather’s is a warm and practical jumper for a boy. The two designs appeared in Feed The Children’s first book but were included in the second book due to popular demand by the many people who missed out on a copy of Best Yarn Forward.

Other contributions include a V-neck school jumper by Rita Gulliver. The pattern is particularly ingenious because it can be knitted in 4-ply or double-knit. Jumpers for school are especially needed in the communities Feed The Children supports, where families struggle to equip their children with basic school needs. There are also lots of blanket ideas from some of Feed The Children’s army of blanket knitters. “A blanket doesn’t have to be boring!” says Feed The Children’s marketing coordinator, Kim Tame. “It can be as colourful and creative as you like. We feature some of the beautiful ideas people have produced for us over the years, for inspiration.”