A FORMER accountant and craft extraordinaire set up a knitting club at the beginning of the pandemic and has supported local animal charities with her creations.
Jean Willson, 79, of Stevenson Lodge, Poole Road, Westbourne, founded the knitting club with the aim of providing warm, hand-knitted blankets to animals who need them.
Jean, along with Gill Maskell Linda Tucker and Barbara Kelly knit about 14 to 15 blankets every 10 days and donate them to causes of their choosing.
So far, the group has knitted and crocheted over 100 blankets.
Jean said: "We started the group when we first went into lockdown. I volunteered at Poole Hospital and other residents volunteered elsewhere pre-pandemic, but as we couldn’t do this we decided to do something else. We have been knitting for dogs in rescue centres.