{"id":87163,"date":"2024-11-05T17:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=87163"},"modified":"2024-11-11T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:19:44","slug":"pentyrch-knitting-group-stitch-together-support-for-ukrainian-soldiers-and-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2024\/11\/05\/pentyrch-knitting-group-stitch-together-support-for-ukrainian-soldiers-and-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentyrch knitters stitch together support for Ukrainian soldiers and children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thriving group is making camouflage beanie hats to wear under helmets, and blankets for the elderly<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

KNITTERS in Pentyrch have made about 60 woollen hats to line the metal helmets of Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beanie hats are part of a gift of about 30 half-square-metre cardboard boxes packed with knitted and crocheted hats, jumpers, blankets, shawls and teddy bears that have been sent since March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentyrch Knit and Natter group got involved after an appeal from Plymouth Ukraine Medical Aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was just all kicking off and I said to the girls, come on, we need to do something, what can we do?\u201d said Carol Saint, who set up the group in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey asked if people could knit camouflaged hats for them to wear underneath to keep them warm and be comfortable \u2013 so we responded,\u201d Mrs Saint said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Saint sent two boxes full of knitted hats for the army on Tuesday last week and the group are now donating Christmas cards and chocolate lollies for the next delivery as part of Puma\u2019s Christmas deliveries for Ukrainian orphans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have to share everything, so they don\u2019t get a lot of things that are theirs, so it\u2019s nice if they get a little jumper,\u201d Mrs Saint said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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