Hand embroidered bedspread

Because the reserve was not met we'll be organising a raffle to be drawn in 2012. You can buy your £1 raffle tickets from the Rosie Hospital Tea Bar and at any of our Rosie in Stitches stalls around the county.

Hand embroidered quilted bedspread

A lady in Bar Hill has donated 132 squares which she hand embroidered, each with a different flower. John Lewis has donated fabric for the edges and wadding. Another lady has spent two months stitching them together and turning them into a quilted bedspread.

The edge materials are a pale lime green and a pink with small white butterfly prints.

The back of the bedspread has large and small print pink flowers.

We have a silent auction until the 15th July 2011. If you would like to make a bid send your offer to rosieinstitches@btinternet.com

132 differrent hand emboidered flowers
on a 6'x6' quilted bedspread

Rosie in Stitches stall

We shall have a stall at the Cambridge Nursing Centre Summer Fete in Chesterton, Cambridge from 2.30pm on Saturday 16th July. Selling toys, handbags, secondhand jewellery, homemade cards, teapot cosies and discount baby knitwear

Affinity Yarns Charity Open Day

On Sunday 22nd May 2011 between 2pm and 6pm at 19 Church Close, Whittlesford, CB22 4NY

Affinity Yarns are inviting you to come along for some yarn chat. They have loads of lovely pattern books to look through. They are stockists of Debbie Bliss, Rowan, Noro, Louisa Harding, Sirdar and Knit Pro.

You will receive 10% discount on all purchases on the day.

There will be homemade cakes and tea - donations in aid of Rosie in Stitches.

Have a wonderful afternoon.

Stalls in April

Community Market, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 2nd April 10.30 to 12.30

Outpatients, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Friday 8th April 10am to 4pm


Last chance to pick up a unique designer gift for Mother's Day or Easter at high street prices

Stalls in March

Community Market, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 5th March 10.30 to 12.30

Annual General Meeting
Seminar Room 5, The Rosie Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Monday 7th March 12.30 to 2.30

Pick up a unique designer gift for Mother's Day or Easter at high street prices

Books for Sale

Rosie in Stitches have had six boxes of books donated to sell for our fundraising. Topics include:

1. making and clothing teddies
2. quilting
3. cross stitch
4. needlework - clothes, toys, memory boxes
5. knitting from baby to men
6. mosaics
7. Rowan pattern books
8. Collinette pattern books
9. Jaeger pattern books
10. Twilleys pattern books
11. ribbon crafts
12. crocheting
13. home furnishings

Payment options - paypal, credit/debit card, cheque, cash - 100% goes to the charity No 1036092 Friends of the Rosie
Delivery options - collect, deliver, post

If you want more information about any of the above categories. Send an email and we’ll send descriptions of all we have in your chosen category(ies).

Season s Greetings

Stalls in November

We have the following stalls selling our hand made toys and clothes:

Community Market, The Octagon, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 6th November 10.30am to 4.00pm
Takings were £25.50

Addenbrooke’s Outpatients, Cambridge

Tuesday 2nd November 10.00am to 4.00pm
Takings were £279.70

Affiliates Network

Friends of the Rosie are part of the Darwin Affiliates Network. Links to the stores we are affiliated with are on our website at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm

Some offers you can take advantage of today are:

• Garden Bargains are offering 50% OFF membership to the Garden Bargains Discount Club (now only £10 per year)

When you shop with GLTC, IWOOT, Laura Ashley, Habitat, Domino Pizza, Farm and Cottage holidays, Garden Bargains, Oak Furniture Solutions, Moo cards, Great Days Out and Skate Hut go to their websites through ours at www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm and click on the shop you want. A percentage of your shopping bill will then come to The Friends of the Rosie Hospital as a donation.

Apple Festival, Ely, 16th October 2010 10am-4pm

The Ely branch of the Cambridge Ktog group are having a stall at the Apple Festival in Ely on Saturday 16th October. The event is on the Palace Green from 10am to 4pm and all the items for sale will have an apple theme.

The stall raised £393.50 and they won the trophy for “best dressed stall”.

Stalls in October

We have the following stalls selling our hand made toys and clothes:

Community Market, The Octagon, Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 2nd October 10.30am to 12.30pm

Apple Festival, Palace Green, Ely, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 16th October 2010 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
Raised £393.50 and won the trophy for “best dressed stall”

Addenbrooke’s Outpatients, Cambridge

Friday 15th October 10.00am to 4.00pm

Sold £198

Facebook

Have just created a page on Facebook
Have a look at our photo album at

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29767&id=154676434572021&saved

Making a Donation

You can make a donation to our charity through the following methods:

On eBay at http://donations.ebay.co.uk/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=35736

On our own Rosie in Stitches website at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/

Rosie in Stitches will receive donations if you:

Use Easysearch to search the internet at http://forh.easysearch.org.uk

Use Easyfundraising to shop online at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/forh

Use the links to the stores we are affiliated with at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/links.htm

You can buy new hand made items direct from us at http://www.rosieinstitches.org.uk/

or seconds through our eBay charity store at http://shop.ebay.co.uk/rosieinstitches2010/m.html

Every time you shop online with easyfundraising in October you get one entry into the prize draw for a £250 Habitat Giftcard. TWO entries when you make any purchase from Habitat through www.easyfundraising.org.uk/forh

Community Market, Octagon, Bar Hill Saturday 2nd October

Start your Christmas gift shopping now!

We shall have a display of toys and clothes at the market from 10.30am to 12.30pm. There will be sweets, cakes, witches, ghosts, pumpkins, spiders. We have discount clothes from £1 an item and full price items ranging in price from £5 to £7. We have a small selection of bobble hats in football team colours for Histon, Cambridge City, Cambridge United, Norwich, Liverpool, Chelsea.

Knitting Bee

We had a lovely day sheltering from the rain sewing designer labels into witches, ghosts, apples, spiders. Rummaging through our stash for yarns to knit ghostly towers and pizzas.

eBay favourite charity grant

Liquorice Allsorts

Today I have been knitting sweets for selling at the Farmland Museum Food Festival on 26th September 2010

New Arrival

I have just opened our blog account and will be spending my spare time filling in all the blanks. Will publicise this account widely once the majority of the important blanks have been filled.