OVER the Christmas period people across the country will open lovingly prepared goods knitted by family members.

One Didcot resident has taken her own knitting obsession to a new level to knit baby clothes for a charity at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Tesco’s Didcot distribution centre systems manager Debbie Rendell got 15 members of staff, friends and family to help knit blankets, cardigans and hats for the Silver Star Society at Headington Hospital.

The 51-year-old grandmother-of-two said: “I always used to knit for my children but they’re grown up now.

“I went to the Silver Star Society and asked them what they were running out of and got a group together to knit some clothes and blankets.”

Starting in August, the group of 15 knitted 20 blankets, 40 cardigans and numerous hats for newborn children.

The items will be sold by the Silver Stars Society to aid its work in the pre-natal maternity unit at the hospital.

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