Craftworkers enjoy benefits of getting creative for charity

One trend Ballincollig Guild president Cathie O’Neill noticed at her craft classes this spring is the increased interest in crafting for charity – whether it’s knitting blankets for premature babies in Cork or crocheting matinee jackets for infants overseas.

Cathie herself made half a dozen very poignant outfits this year – burial gowns for babies stillborn at six or seven months.

She first created such an outfit some years ago when she heard that a friend’s sister was going to lose her baby.