Wrap with Love is an Australian charitable organisation, founded in 1992 by Sonia Gidley-King, OAM, to produce knitted wraps (used as blankets) as gifts for people who have exposed to the cold and susceptible to hypothermia and especially those who have experienced loss and trauma as a result of war.[1][2] The wraps are knitted, transported and assembled by volunteers.[3] Over 30,000 volunteers around Australia have been involved in the project and more than a quarter of a million woollen wraps have been produced.[3] The wraps are created by knitting 28 equally sized squares in Garter stitch, sewn together into blankets of 4 x 7 squares.[4] Although simple, this formula allows for an almost unlimited variety and the resulting wrap is a unique possession for its final owner. Some wraps incorporate a single stylised kangaroo as a symbol of their origin.[5]
- ^ "Wrap with Love - The Movement". 702 ABC Sydney. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "Wrap with love". Kincoppal-Rose Bay. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Wrap with Love. What They Do". Society of Arts and Crafts. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "Instructions for making squares". Society of Arts and Crafts. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "Gallery of Wraps". Society of Arts and Crafts. Retrieved 4 September 2014.