Petersfield knitting group’s blankets help keep homeless in London warm

PETERSFIELD knitters are bringing comfort to homeless people with their colourful blankets.

Twenty blankets have been made by members of the knitting group at St Laurence Catholic Church in Station Road.

And these have been taken to help those in the capital by the Kilburn-based Mother Teresa Missionary Sisters.

Sisters Chantal and Imelda travelled to Petersfield on Remembrance Sunday to collect the donations.

Sister Chantel said that every day they are asked by the homeless for blankets so they were very grateful to St Laurence’s.

Leader of the knitting group Ludmilla Boswell of Hill Brow is a lay missionary of charity and started the blanket knitting circle to help the Sisters in London.

“Each of us knit six inch squares to be later joined together as one. Our aim is to do this work of love for those whose lives and spirits are broken and to let them know that there are people who care.”