The knitted flower project
When I included the picture of the knitted flowers in my last post I said I would explain more.
The original idea was to make a giant Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon...
...covered in pink flowers. It would be about 1.5m high, and we have permission to display it in the bra department of Marks and Spencer.
One of our members has a knitting machine and knitted the actual ribbon - and the usual small group of knitters and crocheters began to make the flowers. Angie, the leader of the local Breast Cancer Survivors group, is involved, and some of the group members also began making flowers, when Angie also mentioned it on their FB page.
Sewing on all the flowers is a BIG job and three of us from the knitters group have been doing this. On Wednesday I was doing another stint of sewing on - and we were very near adding the final flowers.
So this shows much of the completed part folded at the end of the table, heading off along it and over the far end - now actually more like 3m long!
And this is the area where I was working - I had sewn around 30 flowers by then and reached the point where both ends finally met -
I did not sew the last five or six into that gap - Angie was going up in the afternoon and we thought to leave the honour of adding the very last ones to her.
BUT - you will see an enormous pink heap in the first picture, which is the flowers we haven't used. Remember Angie mentioned it on their FB page?
So now people are working out what to do with the spares - another, slightly smaller ribbon is already underway, and the statues of the Bee Gees may find themselves wearing sashes - and we might still to work out what to do with another couple of hundred pink flowers!
The original idea was to make a giant Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon...
...covered in pink flowers. It would be about 1.5m high, and we have permission to display it in the bra department of Marks and Spencer.
One of our members has a knitting machine and knitted the actual ribbon - and the usual small group of knitters and crocheters began to make the flowers. Angie, the leader of the local Breast Cancer Survivors group, is involved, and some of the group members also began making flowers, when Angie also mentioned it on their FB page.
Sewing on all the flowers is a BIG job and three of us from the knitters group have been doing this. On Wednesday I was doing another stint of sewing on - and we were very near adding the final flowers.
So this shows much of the completed part folded at the end of the table, heading off along it and over the far end - now actually more like 3m long!
And this is the area where I was working - I had sewn around 30 flowers by then and reached the point where both ends finally met -
I did not sew the last five or six into that gap - Angie was going up in the afternoon and we thought to leave the honour of adding the very last ones to her.
BUT - you will see an enormous pink heap in the first picture, which is the flowers we haven't used. Remember Angie mentioned it on their FB page?
So now people are working out what to do with the spares - another, slightly smaller ribbon is already underway, and the statues of the Bee Gees may find themselves wearing sashes - and we might still to work out what to do with another couple of hundred pink flowers!