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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; text-align: center;">Turkey is home to the largest refugee population in the world. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; text-align: center;">As temperatures drop to well below freezing they aren’t equipped to handle the freezing temperatures and icy conditions and without proper winter clothing, warm shelter, blankets etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; text-align: center;">Our blankets are made from knitted/crochet squares which come from around and are stitched together by Lily's team of stitchers. Each square is a hug from someone who cares. Likewise our warm clothing is made by sewers, knitters and crocheters from all walks of life and almost every country in the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please help us meet the cost of sending out the blankets (square hugs) and warm clothing by sponsoring a sack of Warmth for <strong>£7 ($9)</strong>so we can continue to let the children living in the camps know that we do care and they aren't forgotten especially as the weather is so cold at the moment. To </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sponsor a Sack of Warmth you can pay via</span><a href="http://paypal.me/LilyTurkey" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"> PayPal</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. Sacks are packed ready to be sent. We will be sending to Hatay via Tamer at Drop of Hope, Adana via Mahmood and Konya via Anas who will distribute them to the children on our behalf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each of our sacks typically contain 6 full size blankets or 12-15 baby/children's blankets. 100 hats and scarves or 30- 40 sweaters. We will send you a photo of your sack with a list of its contents and will include any message you wish to send to the Syrian children. </span></div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-13829358820220020492019-07-15T04:49:00.001-07:002019-07-15T04:59:48.728-07:00Help Provide Education for Syrian Refugees <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We feel refugee education should be a top priority. Recent studies by U.N.C.H.R and AFAD show that Syrian refugees living in camps are in need of basic education at all levels and underlies the magnitude of scarcity for education programmes in camps. In the past camp education has relied on volunteers. Some were teachers in Syria but most were not. As volunteers are not bound by hard and fast schedules or curriculum their instruction and time with the children is often inconsistent. We want to employ qualified teachers and will be using elements of the official Turkish curriculum to enable students to transfer to the Turkish schools and elements of the Syrian curriculum to enable education to continue in Syria should the day come when they can return. Apart from paying the teachers salary there is a need to purchase Teaching aids, Text books, notebooks, stationery, chalkboards, desk, chairs, laptop to enable the children to learn about the worldwide web, fans for the heat and heaters for the winter. We would also like to provide each child with their own school bag. For those children able to attend in the Turkish schooling system we hope to be able to help with transport and the purchase of uniforms etc and hopefully provide a scholarship to a limited number of children. This is a very ambitious project but I am sure we can achieve it with your help. <a href="https://www.paypal.me/LilyTurkey?fbclid=IwAR3vPKFWGRLf7p1nACAEvMKs5j1by1hcbgFNR9AbbudXqvpxy0FCX0luowk" target="_blank">paypal</a>.me/LilyTurkey we have made a start by collecting pens,pencils etc and making pencil cases in our stitching group and purchasing school bags.</div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-49507677410865687712018-12-07T07:56:00.001-08:002020-03-13T02:53:25.308-07:00How To Donate To LILY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several ways you can donate to donate to help Syrian Children living in Turkey :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please mark all parcels 'For charity no commercial value'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over half of the people displaced by the Syria crisis are children and every two minutes, another child from Syria becomes a refugee. Since the begining of this crisis and the first refugees came across the border into Turkey LILY has sworn to help bring a little comfort to Syria's children and to show them that they are not forgotten - that we DO care.<br /><br />Here are some of the ways you can help us to provide that comfort:<br /><br />If you are a knitter or crocheter please consider making an 8inch square or two with your odds and ends of yarn. It's a great way to bust your stash and the squares will be joined to form blankets and given to Syrian refugees. Every square is a hug from someone who cares! you can also send us completed blankets if you prefer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have heard stories of Syrian mothers having to resort to using plastic bags instead of nappies and as you can imagin this causes terrible sores and babies needing medical attention. We (LILY) try to supply nappies as often as possible but disposable nappies are expensive. As there are over <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.8571px; text-align: justify;"> 30,000 babies registered in 24 refugee camps along border areas with Syria and Turkey and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.8571px; text-align: justify;">While the exodus to Turkey continues unabated, the population of newborn babies to Syrian refugee mothers also increases day by day..... that's a lot of nappies!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.8571px; text-align: justify;">I have found a family run factory here in Turkey that makes flat toweling nappies that will sell them to LILY at a greatly reduced price. These will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.72px;">fit all ages.... so the same nappies will last one child from baby right through to toddler stage and are easy to wash thoroughly by hand and quick to dry. We can buy a pack of 12 re-usable toweling 100% Turkish cotton nappies 60cm x 60cm for 28 turkish lira which works out around 7 pounds sterling (10 us dollars).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bakeries providing a lifeline to communities have become a regular target for air strikes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.0001px; text-align: justify;">The acute suffering of civilian communities has been made immeasurably worse by a shortage of bread, Syrian’s staple food, caused in part by the deliberate bombing of bakeries. At 'LILY' we are doing our best to try and ease the plight of the Syrian civilian population, who feel abandoned by the rest of the world by making sure that they at least get fresh bread daily.</span> Families queue up for hours in the hope of purchasing even a single bag of bread, and frequently return home empty-handed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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refugees would hit one million by the middle of 2013. That grim
threshold was reached last month</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which turned out to be the two-year-old conflict's </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">deadliest
month. And, today j</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">ust
six weeks later, there are </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">1.3 million
Syrian refugees</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
In late March, Antonio Guterres, the UN's High Commissioner for
Refugees, told a Congressional hearing that there might be</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">
as many as four million Syrian refugees </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
the end of 2013. Also in March, the UN estimated that there were 3.6
million internally displaced persons in Syria; the UN's Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is likely to revise that
number upwards perhaps as high as 4.5 million, in the coming weeks.
Even though Turkey is currently in the process of building six new
refugee camps, on top of the 17 that already exist Turkey's camps
can't expand fast enough for all the new Syrian Refugees and, along
the Turkish-Syrian border, there are an estimated 100,000 people
living between the front lines of the conflict and Turkish border.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Any spare wool you have can be knitted, crocheted or woven into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-64125563714444017862013-04-14T09:30:00.000-07:002013-04-14T09:30:57.122-07:00Blankets for 2 New Syrian Refugee Camps In Turkey.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Turkey
is building two camps along its far southeastern border with Syria to
house a growing number of refugees from Syrian minority groups,
mainly Assyrian Christians as well as ethnic Kurds. More 250,000
Syrians fleeing civil war in their homeland have registered in
Turkey, most of whom stay in 17 camps along the 900-km (560-mile)
border, although the total number of refugees is closer to 400,000.
The two tented camps, to be completed in less than a month, are being
built in Midyat, a town in southeastern Mardin province some 50 km
from the Syrian border. One camp with a capacity of 2,500 people will
house mainly Assyrian Christians as well as refugees from other
Christian denominations. The other camp will have a capacity of 3,000
and would house any Syrian Kurds fleeing the violence. We have been asked if we could help out with supplying blankets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><b>Can you help us?</b> with just three 8inch squares.</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Any spare wool you have can be knitted, crocheted or woven into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly which is why we are asking for just 3 squares ( ofcourse we'll also accept more). I</span></span>f you could knit or chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="background-color: white; border-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'LILY' C/O A Mencke</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.O. Box 2842</span></span></div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-48465309978797450492013-04-06T01:59:00.000-07:002013-04-06T01:59:52.333-07:00Knit For Syria's Children.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Families seeking refuge inside Syria
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of the country, with temperatures as
low as -8°C. Families fled, often without enough time to gather
winter clothing for children. This winter, rationing of the power
supply severely limited electric heating. Shortages of fuel pushed
the price of kerosene up by as much as 500%, making it impossible for
the poorest families to heat their shelters; in one area, 80% of
households could not afford heating. This makes warm shelters and
blankets all the more important, but in 2012 only 30% of those who
needed blankets received them.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 40 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-14380943872316524202013-04-03T07:37:00.000-07:002013-04-03T07:37:40.433-07:00Just 3 Little Squares!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Syria has suffered its deadliest month so far in the two-year conflict, with more than 6,000 people killed in March, a third of them civilians. <span style="line-height: 20.71875px;">Almost 300 children died, taking the number of children killed in the conflict to around 4,390.</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">As Syria's civil war continues unabated, thousands of children have fled across the border, terrified and desperate for safe refuge from the spiraling violence. Humanitarian needs are at critical levels inside Syria, with more than 4 million people in urgent need of relief. We at 'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn are trying to reach these children and bring them a little comfort and wramth. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly which is why we launched this 3 square appeal. <b>PLEASE</b> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit or chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great, or if you prefer to donate a small amount (3tl which is equivelent to 1pound sterling or 1.70 us dollar) then we'll buy the yarn and knit 3 squares for you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 40 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets for this project we are working with Humanitarian Relief Foundation. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please Help If You Can!</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-20332986280086715672013-03-20T10:41:00.000-07:002013-03-20T10:41:32.123-07:00Syrian Children Need Blankets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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years after the start of the conflict the arrival of the millionth
refugee across the Syrian border is a stark illustration of a crisis
that is bringing fear, pain and suffering on a massive scale. Within
Syria itself violence is intensifying and more than 4 million people,
at least half of whom are children, are in urgent need of
humanitarian assistance. What was once a trickle has grown steadily
until now more than 7,000 refugees cross Syria's borders each night.
Travelling under cover of darkness, the refugee children and their
families arrive at their destination frightened and exhausted,
frequently with little more than the clothes on their backs. Many of
the children have experienced tragic loss and witnessed horrific
violence. Many are suffering with coughs, pneumonia and respiratory
infections. Small children tell stories of how they hid in basements
then found their homes destroyed and had to flee to the border on
foot at night with the sound gunfire. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We at
LILY are currently trying to provide the children with a little
comfort by giving each child their very own blanket made especially
for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our
blankets are lovingly made by adults and children from all walks of
life and many different countries around the wold. They provide love,
a sense of security, warmth and comfort to Syrian refugee children
who have been made homeless by war and will send a message of concern
and hope. Your participation is important in sending this message of
hope, the thought that someone cares, that this beautiful, handmade
blanket was created especially for them. It doesn't really matter
what it looks like: even the most basic knitted blanket patterns will
yield perfect results – a smile. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please
consider making a square or two, any spare wool you have can be
knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all
together into a blanket.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Turkey.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'LILY' C/O A Mencke</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-12884618583299971602013-03-08T07:49:00.000-08:002013-03-08T07:49:56.502-08:00All children deserve to feel warmth and comfort!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two
years after the start of the conflict the arrival of the millionth
refugee across the Syrian border is a stark illustration of a crisis
that is bringing fear, pain and suffering on a massive scale. Within
Syria itself violence is intensifying and more than 4 million people,
at least half of whom are children, are in urgent need of
humanitarian assistance. As this crisis approaches its third year,
the initial trickle has grown steadily until now more than 7,000
refugees cross Syria's borders each night. The scale of the crisis
facing Syria's children requires a massive response from
international humanitarian organisations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Help
'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn Knit Squares to make blankets for
these Syrian children. Often just having one thing that the children
can claim as their own and keep with them on their (sometimes rather
tumultuous) journey helps them a great deal.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It
really will make a difference to a child's life!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be
costly. Therefore I am asking everyone<b> PLEASE</b> if you could knit or
crochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and
postage shouldn't be too great. We will then sew them together and a
child with
nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE
8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn
from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn worsted
weight , double knit or 8plySize 4mm needles
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yarn
sewing needle.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast on
34 stitches (try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too
tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 1:
knit
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Row 2:
knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for
your square but you use any stitch you prefer, be as creative as you
like.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continue
knitting until you have knitted a square
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off
Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a
darning method.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VERY
IMPORTANT Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work
after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares
together. but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO
NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO
COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your
ends.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We
work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely
transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.<br />You
can also find us at<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'Lily'
</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be
donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of
completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></span></span></span><br />
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has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly
volunteer basis.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Lily'
wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which
support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily' –</b> <b>L</b>ove
<b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the
day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dianne
Jones </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-
Founder of </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'Lily'-
L</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ove
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the </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>L</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">anguage
of </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Y</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">arn.</span></span></span></div>
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- 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Türkmen
Mahlesi</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ünlü
sokak No 10 D4</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kuşadası</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aydin</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Turkey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to
Jordan is</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'LILY'
C/O A Mencke</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.O.
Box 2842</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jubeiha</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jordan,
11941</span></span></span></div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-49099884530588910962013-02-28T07:14:00.000-08:002013-02-28T07:14:19.192-08:00'Thoughtful Thursday' 3 Squares for Syrian Children<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.390625px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Hussein Malla</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">There is a total of 184,977 Syrian refugees are currently taking shelter in 14 refugee camps in Turkey. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">The refugee exodus from Syria has soared to 5,000 a day, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">Syria's neighbor Jordan said that in February alone it had taken in more than 50,000 new arrivals. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.390625px;">The humanitarian crisis is worsening day by day, leaving agencies struggling to provide help that’s desperately needed. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.390625px;">Even if there was an immediate halt to the violence today, there will still be massive humanitarian needs that will need to be addressed for months and years to come. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.390625px;">There is no quick fix, but we can help in a small way by helping to bring a little warmth and comfort to the children in these camps, and show that there are people around the world that do care. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.390625px;"> </span><b style="color: #444444; line-height: 0.56cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">How You Can Help:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or three with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted or crocheted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly which is why I dec launched this 3 square appeal. </span><b style="color: #444444;">PLEASE</b><span style="color: #444444;"> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit or chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great, or if you prefer to donate a small amount (3tl which is equivelent to 1pound sterling or 1.70 us dollar) then we'll buy the yarn and knit 3 squares for you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is </span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-22465014394255446472013-02-15T08:52:00.001-08:002013-02-15T10:16:27.584-08:00And They're Off!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we sent off another cosignment this time to a refugee camp in Antakya, Turkey. It's such a good feeling to be able to help the children keep warm.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we sent <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">4,480 hats, 2,010 pairs mittens & gloves, 1,600 pairs socks, 1,200 pairs baby booties, 1,856 scarves, 200 pairs girls tights, 600 pairs leg warmers, 200 ear muffs, and 612 blankets. We have also had 1,100 pairs shoes delivered to camp in Antakya.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"> A big thank you to everyone who has donated, but we still need more, there are now 181,729 refugees in Turkey. Please continue to send in your knitted and crochet squares and every week we meet to sew them together to make blankets.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly. Therefore I've decided to launch this 3 square appeal. I am asking everyone </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">PLEASE</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit or crochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please if you could just knit or crochet 3 x 8inch squares, pop them in an envelope and send them to the address at the bottom of this page, we will sew them together to make blankets <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">and a child with nothing will get a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-16984751340999359832013-02-14T23:59:00.000-08:002013-02-14T23:59:06.497-08:00Knit To Help Syrian Children<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">With increased violence and no end in sight, up to 5,000 more arrive every day, 80% of whom are women and children.</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many newly-arriving Syrian refugees are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid, some coming with only the clothes on their backs. Thousands of children have already suffered through months of terrifying conflict and displacement, and are now at serious risk of succumbing to the cold. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We at LILY- Love In the Language of Yarn are working hard to provide blankets and warm hats, socks, gloves etc., for the children, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">especially the youngest, who are most at risk of succumbing to the cold – but there isn’t </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enough! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. It is a lot of fun and immensely satisfying knitting or crocheting squares to make blankets. It's a good way to use up scraps of wool and different effects can be achieved with colours and by using different stitches.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A handmade blanket will bring comfort and warmth to Syrian people especially children who continue to suffer. A lovingly made blanket will send a message of concern and hope to these refugees. Your participation is important.!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kuşadası</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Aydin</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Turkey.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'LILY' C/O A Mencke</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-2721608216564237992013-02-07T03:21:00.000-08:002013-02-07T03:21:24.100-08:00Squares To Make Blankets For Syrian Refugees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the civil war in Syria rages on, more than a quarter of a million Syrians have fled the country in the last eight weeks. Currently there are 763,000 Syrian refugees outside Syria, out of which 250,000 are in Jordan and 240,000 in Turkey, nearly 80 percent of the refugees are women and children, and of those refugees, one in every five Syrian refugee households is female-headed. The number of Syrians accommodated in Turkish camps is now 170,000 and to date, around 2,700 babies were born in these camps. In addition, more than 70,000 Syrians are living in the cities in Turkey.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted or crocheted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 - 40 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">( depending on tension, try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 1: knit</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.</span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<strong style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.64cm;">'Lily' </strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.64cm;">is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Turkey.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now also have a branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'LILY' C/O A Mencke</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.O. Box 2842</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jubeiha</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jordan, 11941</span></span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-75344631839460845912013-01-30T08:58:00.000-08:002013-01-30T08:59:29.573-08:00Knit A Hat For Syrian Refugees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The weather is very cold and the Syrian Refugees would really benefit from a knitted hat. If you've a little time to spare and an odd ball of yarn please knit a hat and send to the address at the base of this post.<br />
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With size 4.5mm (US7) needles cast on 90 stitches.<br />
Knit 4 rows in K1, P1, rib casting on 1 stıtch at the end of the last row - 91sts.<br />
Row 5. Knit<br />
Row 6. Purl<br />
Continue in stocking stitch (1 row k, 1 row purl) until work measures 6 inches from begining.<br />
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Decreasing:<br />
Row 1 (knit 11, k2tog) 7 times - 84sts<br />
Row 2 and all wrongside rows purl.<br />
Row 3 (k10,k2tog) 7 times -77sts<br />
Row 5 (k9, k2tog) 7 times - 70sts<br />
Row 7 (k8, k2tog) 7 times - 63sts<br />
Row 9, (k7, k2tog) 7 times - 56sts<br />
Row 11 ( k6, k2tog) 7 times - 49sts<br />
Row 13 (k5, k2tog) 7 times - 42sts<br />
Row 15 (k4, k2tog) 7 times - 35sts<br />
Row 16 (P2tog, p3) 7 times - 28sts<br />
Row 17 ( k2, k2tog) 7 times - 21sts<br />
Row 18 (P2tog, p1) 7 times - 14sts<br />
Row 19 (K2tog) 7 times - 7 sts<br />
Row 20 (P2 tog) 3 times, P1 - 4 sts<br />
Row 21 k4tog<br />
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Sew hat seam together using flat seam stitch.<br />
Thank you to Anne Grffin for sharing this knitting pattern and knitting the hats in the photo.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b>Dianne Jones</b></strong> - Founder of <b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.<br />Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones<br /> Türkmen Mahlesi<br /> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4<br /> Kuşadası<br /> Aydin<br /> Turkey.</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-77879628778063882222013-01-24T09:10:00.000-08:002013-01-24T09:10:06.710-08:00A Special Meeting To Help Syrians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was lucky enough to be at a meeting hosted by the League of Arab
States, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and The Humanitarian
Forum, the meeting to coordinate aid delivery to the Syrian people
was attended by representatives of Turkey’s IHH Humanitarian Relief
Foundation, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), World Health Organization (WHO), World Food Programme
(WFP), Red Crescent and Red Cross organizations, various NGOs and
Syrian representatives. Representatives of the organizing bodies and
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi delivered speeches at
the opening session. Al-Arabi summarized the efforts of the Arab
League, both within the organization and on the international arena,
to resolve the ongoing crisis in Syria and ensure the safety of the
people. The opening speeches were followed by presentations about the
situation and needs of the affected people inside Syria and refugees
in neighboring countries. İzzet Şahin, IHH International Affairs
Coordinator, also made a presentation on the situation of Syrian
refugees in Turkey. “Basic needs of refugees arriving in Turkey are
met by the Red Crescent and IHH; however, the real problem is inside
Syria borders. IHH is ready to deliver humanitarian assistance to the
affected people in Syria through a humanitarian aid corridor.” </span></span></span>
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number of workshops were held about delivering relief to the Syrian
people, principles of relief aid, health and food aid. </span></span></span>
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number of recommendations were issued to decision-making bodies and
international NGOs. The meeting recommended:</span></span></span></div>
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countries to facilitate the access and delivery of aid to affected
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agencies to attend to the psychological support of conflict victims.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Utilise
all available opportunities to allow delivery of humanitarian
relief.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cooperate
with Syria-based registered, transparent NGOs for delivering aid.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Promote
collaboration between humanitarian agencies in the field and border
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stakeholders need to improve their coordination mechanisms and
partnership with private sector, civil society organisations and
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safety of humanitarian workers wherever they are stationed.</span></span></span></div>
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the role of League of Arab States and the Organisation of Islamic
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
total number of registered refugees and individuals awaiting
registration is 671,262 as of 21 January. This includes 5,417 Syrian
refugees registered in North Africa. The number registered in Turkey
as of 22 January is 156,801 in 16 camps with another camp about to be
built. "We will continue to have a policy of open door and we
will never close our borders," pledged Turkish Foreign Minister
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In tomorrows meeting I will be rasing my point, I hope people will be listening!</span></span></span></div>
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unabated, thousands of children have fled across the border,
terrified and desperate for safe refuge from the spiralling violence.
These children have not found the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">protection and assistance they need –
because winter is here and thousands remain without appropriate
shelter. Winter has started its glacial spread
across the region, but while the icy winds and driving rains pick up
and temperatures begin to plummet, funding required to meet the needs
of those most at risk is just not there.Thousands of children have
already suffered through months of terrifying conflict and
displacement, and are now at serious risk of succumbing to the cold.
Children are particularly vulnerable to disease associated with the
cold, and are in urgent need of protection as the bitter winter sets
in.The plummeting temperatures and torrential rains could leave
thousands of refugees facing serious health problems like
hypothermia, frostbite and chest infections. This could prove deadly
for the most vulnerable children – some of whom are already getting
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">So let's try and send them a little comfort and the knowledge that someone is thinking of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4c4c4c;"><b>He</b></span><span style="color: #444444;"><b>lp 'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn Knit Squares to make blankets for these Syrian refugees especially the children.</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4c4c4c;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly. Therefore I am asking everyone <b>PLEASE</b> if you could knit or chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #61636a; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Please if you could just knit or crochet 3 x 8inch squares, pop them in an envelope and send them to the address at the bottom of this page, we will sew them together to make blankets </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18px;">and a child with nothing will get a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span><br />Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones<br /> Türkmen Mahlesi<br /> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4<br /> Kuşadası<br /> Aydin<br /> Turkey.</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-26631960725712185152012-12-31T00:28:00.001-08:002012-12-31T00:33:06.210-08:00Knitters Can Make A Difference!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After finishing a project, knitters often wonder what to do with the leftovers, or with extra skeins in their stash.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed! It really will make a difference to the Syrian children living in refugee camps where </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">temperatures can plunge below freezing and rain can be torrential. Almost 65% of refugees are babies and young children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly. Therefore I've decided to launch this 3 square appeal. I am asking everyone especially during the season of goodwill even though it's a very busy time, </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PLEASE</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets for this project we are working with Humanitarian Relief Foundation. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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of Dec. 26, the total number of Syrians who have fled toTurkey had
reached 148,000, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official.
But the actual number is likely to be much higher because many
Syrians are known to be living outside the camps.<br />A total of 13
tent cities have been established in Turkey, in addition to a
container city in the southeastern province of Kilis that is capable
of hosting 12,000 refugees. There are five tent cities in Hatay, two
in Şanlıurfa, three in Gaziantep and one each in Kahramanmaraş,
Osmaniye and Adıyaman. With temperatures dropping to freezing at
night during the winter, these displaced people are particularly
vulnerable, because they do not have sufficient clothes and bedding
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these Syrian refugees especially the children.</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;"> O</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">ften just having one thing that the children can claim as their own and keep with them on their (sometimes rather tumultuous) journey helps them a great deal. </span></span></span></div>
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realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be
costly. Therefore I am asking everyone <b>PLEASE</b> if you could knit or
chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and
postage shouldn't be too great. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #61636a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn worsted weight , double knit or 8plySize 4mm needles 10 (USA)A yarn sewing needle. Cast on 32 stitches <em>(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</em> Row 1: knit Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT </strong></span><strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together</span>.</strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span><br />Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones<br /> Türkmen Mahlesi<br /> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4<br /> Kuşadası<br /> Aydin<br /> Turkey.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But please if you can spare a little of your time knit a square or three for our 3 Square Appeal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hundreds of Syrians crossed into Turkey on Monday, a day after an airstrike reportedly targeted a bakery and killed scores of people in a rebel-held Syrian town, </span><span style="background-color: white;">1,100, refugees mostly women and children arrived on foot or by cars. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Turkey is now hosting more than 145,000 refugees from Syria in </span>13 refugee camps and soon to be 3 more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly. Therefore I've decided to launch this 3 square appeal. I am asking everyone especially during the season of goodwill even though it's a very busy time, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">PLEASE</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please if you could just knit or crochet 3 x 8inch squares, pop them in an envelope and send them to the address at the bottom of this page, we will sew them together to make blankets <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">and a child with nothing will get a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn worsted weight , double knit or 8plySize 4mm needles 10 (USA)A yarn sewing needle. Cast on 32 stitches <em>(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</em> Row 1: knit Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast off Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT </strong></span><strong><span class="fbUnderline" style="text-decoration: underline;">Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together</span>.</strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span><br />Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones<br /> Türkmen Mahlesi<br /> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4<br /> Kuşadası<br /> Aydin<br /> Turkey.</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-82636195603434252812012-12-11T03:19:00.000-08:002012-12-11T03:19:42.621-08:00The 3 Square Appeal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly. Therefore I've decided to launch this 3 square appeal. I am asking everyone especially during the season of goodwill even though it's a very busy time, <b>PLEASE</b> spare a thought for the Children of the Syrian refugees and if you could knit just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 13 refugee camps in Turkey and soon to be 3 more, the number of Syrian refugees here at the moment stands at 137,000 and almost half that number are children. The temperatures in that region are at the moment around 10 degrees C during the day and down to around 3 deg C night time but this is just the start of the winter and temperatures will soon drop and snow is forecast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Please if you could just knit or crochet 3 x 8inch squares, pop them in an envelope and send them to the address at the bottom of this page, we will sew them together to make blankets <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">and a child with nothing will get a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets. </span><br /><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span><br />Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones<br /> Türkmen Mahlesi<br /> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4<br /> Kuşadası<br /> Aydin<br /> Turkey.</span></div>
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-26671295736319867262012-12-06T06:42:00.000-08:002012-12-06T06:42:52.289-08:00Thoughtful Thursday- Knit for Syrian Refugees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">The violence in Syria is escalating as Assad responds to rebel military gains with airstrikes and artillery bombardment, killing hundreds every day. In Turkey, the authorities have built 13 camps and are planning three more to house the refugees. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">More than 133,888 Syrians entered Turkey, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">11,909 Syrians are staying in Hatay, 14,747 in Gaziantep province, 12,959 in Kilis, 30,665 in Şanlıurfa province, 12,520 in Kahramanmaraş, 7,859 in Osmaniye and 2,339 in Adiyaman. A total of 578 Syrians are staying in various Turkish hospitals and receiving medical treatment, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">40,312 dispersed in other regions of Turkey. The nightly temperatures at the moment are around 5 degrees C. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">let's try and send them a little comfort and the knowledge that someone is thinking of them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Help 'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn Knit Squares to make blankets for Syrian refugees especially the children.</b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bvQzr-D9UGk/UMCtNLr1bSI/AAAAAAAADH4/d0Sb0GSt-As/s1600/mine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bvQzr-D9UGk/UMCtNLr1bSI/AAAAAAAADH4/d0Sb0GSt-As/s320/mine.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDsYFK3Wqp0/UBDtYssaUlI/AAAAAAAABdo/ZvYfkk4tGtQ/s1600/squares+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="295" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDsYFK3Wqp0/UBDtYssaUlI/AAAAAAAABdo/ZvYfkk4tGtQ/s320/squares+003.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yarn sewing needle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 1: knit</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets for this project we are working with Humanitarian Relief Foundation. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-19831042180033851252012-12-01T05:33:00.004-08:002012-12-01T07:29:00.431-08:00Help Wrap A Child In Love !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Knit a square and help wrap a child in love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are more than 126,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, all have fled from the violence of Syria's civil war. Many of the refugees are children who <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">have seen violence themselves. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">So let's try and send them a little comfort and the knowledge that someone is thinking of them. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yq90o19kyxg/ULoGVJefo3I/AAAAAAAADGM/XdnfCLGGefU/s1600/blanket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yq90o19kyxg/ULoGVJefo3I/AAAAAAAADGM/XdnfCLGGefU/s320/blanket.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDsYFK3Wqp0/UBDtYssaUlI/AAAAAAAABdo/ZvYfkk4tGtQ/s1600/squares+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="295" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDsYFK3Wqp0/UBDtYssaUlI/AAAAAAAABdo/ZvYfkk4tGtQ/s320/squares+003.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yarn sewing needle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 1: knit</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3jIBdI46FOg/T2IeDvpajiI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/cpOOesp3jCI/s1600/squares+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3jIBdI46FOg/T2IeDvpajiI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/cpOOesp3jCI/s1600/squares+006.JPG" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please Help If You Can!</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="background-color: white; border-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kuşadası</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Aydin</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-40650975041159466392012-11-29T22:38:00.000-08:002012-12-01T07:29:18.295-08:00Knit A Square - Help Warm A Child!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">More than 126,000 Syrians have registered with the Turkish government as refugees – part of the 440,000 registered refugees who have fled to countries that are Syria’s neighbors. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Most of the displaced people in the camps are children. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">All have fled the violence of Syria’s civil war. Many have seen violence themselves. Some have lost relatives, and most have trouble sleeping and panic when they hear loud noises or airplanes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> We</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> expect the situation to get worse when winter hits, lowering temperatures and sending rains that could turn the camps into a muddy bog.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQDtWtcnb68/ULdiVQ676aI/AAAAAAAADFc/BkTHIbUgiq0/s1600/Syrian+refugees+in+Turkey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQDtWtcnb68/ULdiVQ676aI/AAAAAAAADFc/BkTHIbUgiq0/s320/Syrian+refugees+in+Turkey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Help 'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn Knit Squares For Syrian refugees especially the children.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yarn sewing needle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 1: knit</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets for this project we are working with Humanitarian Relief Foundation. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Aydin</span><br />
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Love In the Language of Yarn and Educationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09476145836828677181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688446036729193565.post-59500980623261600582012-11-15T12:06:00.002-08:002012-12-01T07:29:45.415-08:00Help 'LILY' Knit Squares for Syrian Refugees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">8 months ago I founded 'Lily' in memory of my granddaughter Lily Iris Gibson who was born sleeping. Because of photos like this I wanted to help these Syrian children refugees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> I am just one person but with the help of our wonderful s</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">upporters sending knitted and crochet squares and blankets, and the help of family and friends in sewing the squares to make the blankets we have been able to send 3,257 blankets to the children living in these camps, many of them in tents. But this is just a drop in the ocean as thousands are fleeing Syria every day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">At least 11,000 Syrian refugees have fled their country in single day, pouring into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon with children and dozens of wounded. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The new arrivals bring the number of refugees in Turkey to around 120,000. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Most of the displaced people in the camps are children. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">All have fled the violence of Syria’s civil war. Many have seen violence themselves. Some have lost relatives, and most have trouble sleeping and panic when they hear loud noises or airplanes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> We</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> expect the situation to get worse when winter hits, lowering temperatures and sending rains that could turn the camps into a muddy bog.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1COLmlxL5ak/UKT5EJV9R-I/AAAAAAAAC98/hTR9JDMgHMk/s1600/refugee+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1COLmlxL5ak/UKT5EJV9R-I/AAAAAAAAC98/hTR9JDMgHMk/s1600/refugee+2.jpg" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">So let's try and send them a little comfort and the knowledge that someone is thinking of them. <b><span style="font-size: large;">Please keep the squares and blankets coming! </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Help 'Lily' Love In the Language of Yarn Knit Squares For Syrian refugees especially the children.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please consider making a square or two with your odds and ends.</span> Any spare wool you have can be knitted into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> worsted weight , double knit or 8ply</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Size 4mm needles 6 (USA)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yarn sewing needle.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast on 32 stitches <em><span style="font-style: normal;">(try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)</span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 1: knit</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting until you have knitted a square</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cast off<br /> Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VERY IMPORTANT<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together.</span></strong> but if you're changing colors work in your other tails. DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE. Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets for this project we are working with Humanitarian Relief Foundation. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 0.64cm;">You can also find us at: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn" style="text-decoration: initial;">https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photos of refugees in this post are by getty images.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><b>'Lily' </b></strong>is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> has no paid employees. All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 800;">'Lily'</span> wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us. Without you, there would be no <b>'Lily'</b> - <b>L</b>ove <b>I</b>n the <b>L</b>anguage of <b>Y</b>arn. We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Dianne Jones</span></b></strong> - Founder of <span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>'Lily'- L</b>ove<b> I</b>n the<b> L</b>anguage of<b> Y</b>arn.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Türkmen Mahlesi</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ünlü sokak No 10 D4</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kuşadası</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Aydin</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Turkey.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Photos of refugees in this post made available by Reuters.</span></div>
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