Our Easter knitting is now for sale across the High Peak – in our Buxton, New Mills, Whaley Bridge and Chapel shops, and at Blythe House’s reception – priced at £1.50 per item.
We’ve had hundreds of chicks, bunnies, baskets and other amazing knitted and crocheted items donated, as well as delicious Easter chocolates and eggs by kind-hearted local residents and businesses.
Vicki attends our Living Well Service after being diagnosed with breast cancer last year. The Disley resident has crocheted some Easter items and says: ‘Going through chemotherapy, you just have to get on with it; there’s no other choice, you’re so busy with appointments and treatments. But once all that was over, I felt very abandoned and alone, I also struggled with the emotional side of my illness. At first I was very nervous about coming to Blythe House, but I didn’t need to be. Everyone has really looked after me, it has been amazing!
‘I wanted to do my bit to support Blythe House; every little thing anyone can do to help really does make a big difference which is why I helped to crochet some Easter bunnies. I’m proud to have taken part in the Jingle Bell Jog in December 2018 alongside fellow patients and a family friend. I’ve never done anything like it before and we walked most of the way, but we ran the last little bit! It was really amazing.’
