Inner Wheel group crochet and donate blankets to celebrate 50th anniversary
Music teacher Alison Baldwin and members of Sedgley & Wombourne Inner Wheel have undoubtedly hit the right note with local charities.
Members have been determined to keep busy during lockdown and were unable to celebrate the organisation's 50th anniversary with a get-together in the usual way.
Instead, Alison, aged 55, who is president of the Inner Wheel branch, enlisted the help of the other 20 members to knit and crochet items for local good causes.
A teacher at St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School at Wombourne and Lanesfield Primary school at Wolverhampton, Alison took up her crochet hooks to make 50 blankets to mark each year the branch has been formed.
Other members got out their crochet hooks and knitting needles to make other items.
Alison said: "We usually meet at Himley Country Club do so since the start of lockdown last March.
"Our oldest member is about 91-years-old and obviously not everyone has access to a computer although recently we have held zoom meetings.
"Lockdown has been so long and members cannot wait to get back to our meetings on the fourth Wednesday of every month as for many it is their social life.
"Although we are celebrating 50 years we have not actually been able to do so and I decided to make blankets for each year we have been formed.
"We have decided to donate these to Himley Mill Care Home which is close to where we usually meet.
"Club members are also donating 35 Easter eggs for the Women's Refuge in Dudley and baby blankets and bonnets for the Neo-Natal Unit at Russells Hall Hospital.
"Some members have made teddies for buddy bags for children who have been subject to domestic violence and others have knitted joy bags, filled with toiletries for a Women's Refuge.
"We do a lot for charity during the year and also send items abroad but this year decided to concentrate on local charities because of the pandemic and lockdown situation."
