TONIGHT’S WI QUIZ

Good Evening Everyone,

Chris and Kit are hosting a Quiz live from The Hampton Hub at 8 o’clock.

For non-Zoomers we are emailing the rounds as we go from the website.

Here is a cryptic towns round from Chris to get your brain started.

We’d love to see you on Zoom so we don’t feel like complete ‘nanas

See Jacqui’s earlier post for link details or WhatsApp Kit on 07813 332096

1.Tub full of water
2.Has a letter to spare
3.Half a score is alongside
4.Professor of rollers
5.Pen, with deep blue ink
6.A chocolate bar without for instance
7.A person who is leaving
890 degrees perhaps
9.People’s rock
10.A complete bacon
11.Cook on the farm
12.Tying meat
13.Latest fortified wine
14.Religious skull
15.Catching slippery fish
16.Almost speechless in front of the French chips
17.Witches attempt to meet
18.A male, part of the torso with some hesitation
19.Arran or Holy in the middle of one’s wages
20.Tend fire
21.Mother’s garden entrance
22.Sounds like a vehicle followed by a Scottish golfer
23.One of the three R’s
24.Shipsmen
25.There are no ends to a hairdryer

WI SCRUBS UPDATE APRIL 27th

Hello Everyone,

 

As fabic becomes harder to source I have been researching alternatives. Local Care Homes are also have a need for scrubs and I suspect the need will be with us for a while.

This specification is from the Dudley NHS Group website

Making scrubs in the correct type and weight of fabric is important. The requirements are:

·     100% cotton or up to 50/50 polyester/cotton only

·     Material weight 115gsm

·     Plain, dark colours preferred (patterned material is harder to inspect for staining/damage)

·     If you can’t get plain dark fabric, lighter colours or even patterns will be accepted

·     Must be washable at a minimum of 60 degrees centigrade

.     No brushed cotton

So, it seems that good quality bedlinen, that can be washed at 60 degrees centigrade, is the bottom line. Too thin, too loosely woven and it is not very useful.  The higher the threadcount the better. Somewhere else I read said not white!

I have found this website offering a very simplified FREE pattern for scrubs that is measured out rather than needing a paper pattern (thus no printing). I’m going to try it out today.

https://themakery.co.uk/blogs/posts/sew-scrubs-for-our-beloved-nhs

Stay safe,

Kit

 

 

 

WI – SCRUBS

Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to sew scrubs for our local GPs.

Hampton Medical Centre have requested three sets of scrubs for their clinicians, so that they each have a spare set (which makes sense)!

If we make more than that we will offer them to other local surgeries or care homes.

I have sourced a pattern and I am ordering the fabric & haberdashery needed. While we wait for the fabric I will trace copies of the pattern onto large sheets of paper (or a lot of smaller bits taped together if I run out of pattern paper). Your committee has agreed to support the initial fabric purchases.

Once all the fabric has arrived it will be washed, cut, and distributed to the members who have volunteered to sew.

Thank you for supporting this venture.

Kit