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Warkworth knitters Ann Langdon, Rachel Kinley and Carolyn Kettles.
An adorable collection of knitted chicks is being sold at the Harbour Hospice shop in Queen Street Warkworth, just in time for Easter.
They cost $8 each (with a chocolate egg included) and all proceeds from sales go directly towards local hospice patient services.
It was Harbour Hospice retail services manager Maria Baird who got the egg rolling. Her English neighbour mentioned that she’d knitted these chicks as a fundraiser for her local hospice in the United Kingdom to sell at Easter.
Maria asked for the knitting pattern and passed it on to hospice’s volunteer services manager Vicki Parker who put a callout to volunteers last July.
More than a dozen keen knitters put up their hands, and their knitting needles have been flying ever since.
Harbour Hospice volunteer life story writer Rachel Kinley, from Warkworth, is one of the knitters. She meets with her knitting group every Thursday and together the women have hatched more than 180 chicks.
Rachel says each chick takes about half-an-hour to knit, and then there’s time spent sewing them together and adding eyes and a beak.
Vicki and Maria are keen for this cute little fundraiser to grow and are inviting more knitters to become involved, so that even more chicks can raise vital funds for hospice next year.
To join Harbour Hospice’s chick knitters, email Vicki at volunteer@harbourhospice.org.nz.
