Just finished work with the King's Arms Knitting Group from Salford dressing over 50 lamp-posts with green French knitting bands with crocheted and knitted brooches attached. This was for a music festival Sounds From The Other City and festival members were encouraged to take brooches and wear them. Lots of people did and only 7 brooches out of over 100 remained a week later.Next day I had a stall and creative space at a Christian Mind, Body Spirit festival at Manchester Cathedral, which I entitled "Yarn Crafts - Building a relationship with God, one stitch at a time." Displays of crochet and knitting for church and charity and a creative space to explore yarn-crafts as an aid to prayer, meditation and contemplation.
Now I'm busy helping Mad Knitters Tea Party, a group of yarn crafters from my home town of Stockport, prepare for International Yarn Bombing Day on June 11th. We have every intention of putting hats on 150 bollards down Princess St and Warren St in Stockport town centre, as a continuation of Stockport's 200 year old tradition of hatting. (I rediscovered this blog whilst trying to set one up for them.) More news anon.
