Are you a knitter, or do you know anyone who knits?
The Patient Experience team at Northampton General Hospital are in need of some more matching knitted hearts for the Connected Hearts initiative.
These beautiful knitted hearts are given out - one is placed in the hand of a lost loved one and the other is for their relative(s) to keep.
If you are able to help, the hearts need to be: • Able to be washed at 60c • Washed at 60c prior to being sent in • Maximum 2inches in size (we have little bags for them to go in) • The hearts need to be matching so the patient has 1 and the family member has the other You can then send these directly to: Rachel Lovesy Patient Experience team Northampton General Hospital Billing Road Northampton NN1 5BD Please get in touch if you need any further details.
Update - 14/01/2021 Thank you to everyone who has shown such an incredible interest for the knitted hearts project.
There have been lots of requests for a pattern but there really is no set pattern so previously people have found their own.
However, many people have now shared the patterns they've used in the comments on our original Facebook post so we have shared the images of those in a new post up there.
There is also the below pattern designed by Mandy Cameron: