Waihi's Jeanette Wilcox photographed a small representative selection of the knitting and crochet work by local women during lockdown.
Waihi's knitting army has been casting its net further this winter to warm the heads and hearts of the vulnerable.
Talented local women have knitted and crocheted their way through lockdown and produced a range of colourful blankets, beanies and baby clothes for the Hauraki branch of Women's Refuge in
Thames, the cancer treatment centre in Thames, the Waihi birthing unit and Waihi Plunket.
Team Beanie was started by Tina Wright, Jeanette Wilcox and Krishna Buckman and the group has focused on making sure every local child receives a beanie, and not just those in need, a beanie for every child.
Jeanette says a core of about 10 women have been "flat out" and produce crochet and knitting regularly but they have some 25 in the group.
"We'll be topping up the schools as there'll be new entrants that haven't received a beanie and some that have lost them."
