SheepDreamzzz

Sheep Dreamzzz Baby Blankets

5 Sales On Etsy since 2018

SheepDreamzzz

Sheep Dreamzzz Baby Blankets

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Announcement    Sheep Dreamzzz baby blankets are soft, beautiful, and very well made by women who have become experts in knitting by hand. We use quality yarns and have rigid quality control. A Sheep Dreamzzz blanket is unique and will be a long-lasting family heirloom.

In addition to all that, our blankets are handmade by women in Nicaragua who have been trained by our 501(c)(3) non-profit, Sheep Not Goats. Your purchase of a single blanket will feed a family in that impoverished country for over a week. You are empowering a woman to care for her family.

It’s that simple. High-quality materials and love in each careful stitch make these blankets extra snuggly. We're sure your baby will approve.

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Last updated on Nov 5, 2019

Sheep Dreamzzz baby blankets are soft, beautiful, and very well made by women who have become experts in knitting by hand. We use quality yarns and have rigid quality control. A Sheep Dreamzzz blanket is unique and will be a long-lasting family heirloom.

In addition to all that, our blankets are handmade by women in Nicaragua who have been trained by our 501(c)(3) non-profit, Sheep Not Goats. Your purchase of a single blanket will feed a family in that impoverished country for over a week. You are empowering a woman to care for her family.

It’s that simple. High-quality materials and love in each careful stitch make these blankets extra snuggly. We're sure your baby will approve.

About SheepDreamzzz

Sales 5
On Etsy since 2018
  • Sheep Dreamzzz currently consists of about 20 women our non-profit has trained to knit.
  • The knitters help each other out to ensure that as many as possible finish a blanket each week.
  • The women knit in our home in Nicaragua. It's comfortable, smoke-free, and safe.
  • The Sheep Dreamzzz project has received recognition for its impact, on TV news, radio, and newspapers.
  • Here's me with my husband Steve. We began our work in Nicaragua in 2012 but began the knitting at the start of 2018.

Empowering Women in Latin America's Poorest Country

My name is Sandy Jacoby, and I’m the original heart and fingers behind Sheep Dreamzzz baby blankets. When I became a first-time grandmother to Sarah Kate and Malachi in 2017, I knitted each of them a cuddly blanket I hoped they would treasure. Other moms started asking my daughters where they could get the blanket for their little ones, which gave me an idea: I could teach women in the rural Nicaraguan community where my husband and I serve with our non-profit, Sheep Not Goats, to knit baby blankets in order to earn income to feed their families and break the cycle of relying upin handouts and taking out loans to survive.

Providing income opportunities for the poor was already the mission of our 501(c)(3) non-profit, Sheep Not Goats. We've built a farm; now we have something for the women of our community. And they have become expert knitters. We use high-quality yarn and are diligent about quality in the work. Our women knit 5 days a week, and it shows.

Here's where you enter the story. Your purchase of a hand-made Sheep Dreamzzz baby blanket helps empower a woman in Malpaisillo; in fact, the sale of a blanket feeds a family for over a week.

It's that simple. High-quality materials and love in each careful stitch make these blankets extra snuggly. We're sure your baby will approve.

Production partners

  • Sheep Not Goats Inc

    Nicaragua

    Sheep Not Goats is a US-based 501 (c)(3) charitable organization focused on providing income opportunities to people in very poor countries. We're focused on Nicaragua right now but through the Sheep Dreamzzz baby blanket project, we are laying plans to expand to other locations.

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Last updated on Nov 6, 2019
Frequently asked questions
Custom and personalized orders

We are happy to make one of our blankets in custom colors that you specify, or without sheep. And we won't charge anything extra unless we have to use more expensive yarn to do it (it might entail buying just a few skeins in a color we're not purchasing at our normal wholesale prices).

A custom blanket takes extra time since we take yarn to Nicaragua from the US, after which we are in Nicaragua for 3-4 weeks before we can come back and ship your blanket. But we can keep you up-to-date on the progress along the way and even send you photos.

At this writing we are making a custom blanket in Green Bay Packers colors!

Gift wrapping and packaging

Blankets come neatly folded in a clear plastic bag tied off with a ribbon. Our choice of ribbon is influenced by whether or not you tell us the blankets if for a boy or girl, or if you don't know. Attached with the ribbon is a card about the blanket and where it came from, with full-color photos of some of the knitters.