Knitting for the NICU

2012: Knitting for the NICU on TV and Thank You's!

Along with an incredibly ambitious project plan for this Christmas in the NICU, fellow knitter Kathy and I unexpectedly (but happily) got our deadline moved up by a couple weeks for a local TV station, KY3-TV to come film a segment about Christmas in the NICU.  We knitted and sewed like crazy women but managed to slide in under the deadline with holiday festive hats, botties, stockings/cuddlers, and snowman photo ornaments for all of the adorable December babies. 

 This is a photo of Mom Amanda Houtz and her cutie pie son, Logan. (Photo from KY3 web site)

For full video of the segment titled "Knitting for the NICU" please click on:

http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-dedicated-volunteer-creates-christmas-cheer-for-babies-families-in-hospital-20121224,0,7385954.story

 

Thanks to friend and fellow RT, Ronda, for this pic of me with reporter, Emily Wood, following my portion of the segment:

My one regret from the piece is that they didn't have time to talk about all the volunteers who have knitted with me over the five years of this project so I'd like to do that now and in big script!

A HUGE thank you to Kathy Grimes, a fellow respiratory therapist, who has been knitting with me for two years.  She is the creator of almost all of those OMG CUTE  animal hats that are so popular in our NICU plus so much more, including the hats, booties, and cuddlers from this Christmas season.

Also, many many thanks to those who have knitted with me in the past as their own commitments and obligations have allowed. Please know that I always smile and think of each of you as I look through all the great hats and booties that have snuggled the noggins in our NICU in the past:  Aunt Susan who created the very first October NICU "Punkin Patch" with me, my sister Suzanne, nieces Jordan and Sydney, Kisha, out-of-towners who mailed donations to our babies:  Cindy, Dianne, Lisa, and fellow RT's  Nicole, Yung, Shelly, Ronda, and Susan.

Thank you all for your help, your love for our babies, and your dedication!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

 

 

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Christmas 2012 in the NICU

Christmas 2012 in the NICU

Whew! This Christmas was a little more challenging than past Christmases but we have no one to blame but...well...me!  I thought it would be really cool to knit Christmas stocking shaped or at least colored baby cuddles for our little Littles.  And it was a great idea! But then our deadline got moved up by two weeks so a local TV station could come film a holiday story about the NICU (not that I'm complaining). 

 Thanks to my knitting pal, Kathy, we were able to pull the whole thing off.  All the cuddlers weren't knitted but they all got made via the sewing machine and were all pretty darn cute, if I do so say so myself.  For each NICU baby, we had a stocking cuddler with a velcro opening so we could slip the babies down into them for sleeping or photos, or a knitted cuddler made with the same theory, a Christmas themed hat, booties, and a snowman ornament with an opening for a baby's first Christmas photo.

 

I won't post every single pic but here are several of our favorites!

A couch full of just washed goodies ready to be assembled into individually bagged sets.

And finally, all bagged and boxed and ready to be delivered:

Be Back Soon!

I'm currently (and have been for the last week) knitting and organizing furiously
for Christmas Knitting in the NICU. There's a local TV station coming to film
tomorrow which is awesome, but which also cut our planning/knitting/organizing
time down by two weeks.  Not complaining at all, just explaining.  Will be back
soon.  In the meantime, if you'd like to see what I've, along with my nifty
knitting co-horts, have done in the the past, check out other posts here on the blog.

Be Back Soon!