• Charlotte Davis
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  • 31 May 2017

Dorothy Attwood, 88, a patient at Butterfly House, The South Bucks Community Hospice, uses her knitting skills to help others.

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Dorothy knits shawls to then pass on to GreenAcres woodland burials, where parents who have suffered the death of a newborn have the option for their baby to be buried with the shawl. 

GreenAcres Chiltern woodland burials is located in Beaconsfield and offers a tranquil surrounding for people to honour and commemorate a loved one. 

Dorothy said: “I always do knitting, wherever I go. You will never find me not knitting! 

"But now my grandchildren have grown up I have no babies to knit for.” 

Mrs Attwood explained that a friend introduced her to the organisation several years ago and she has been knitting shawls for them ever since.