In case anyone has missed it, Saturday 15 June will be the day of the Basingstoke BIG Knit! You can find us on Ravelry, Face book, and Twitter . In just two weeks there will be people all over Festival Place Basingstoke knitting.
Its part of World Wide Knitting In Public Week At the BIG Knit we are planning to knit a blanket in a day and raise money for our local hospice, St Michael's. We need lots of yarn and it's started to arrive from the generous knitters of the town
A bit of a jumble but I have begun sorting them out into colours
I'm beginning to see themes here. It would be fab if we could make three blankets in these colours. They are not going to be huge, lap rugs really so perhaps its doable...
If enough people turn up!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
I also found some knitters treasure in amongst the bags. If you have an eagle eye you may have spotted it already. Some lovely old (1950s or 1960s, I think) Patons 4 and 3 ply 80% wool in some great colours.
As a spin off from the BIG Knit we are thinking of making a really fabulous afghan for the hospice to auction or raffle at their winter fundraiser. This yarn might just be the right stuff to use
What do you think?
Its part of World Wide Knitting In Public Week At the BIG Knit we are planning to knit a blanket in a day and raise money for our local hospice, St Michael's. We need lots of yarn and it's started to arrive from the generous knitters of the town
A bit of a jumble but I have begun sorting them out into colours
 |
| blues and greens |
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| reds and pinks |
AND
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| yellows and creams |
If enough people turn up!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
I also found some knitters treasure in amongst the bags. If you have an eagle eye you may have spotted it already. Some lovely old (1950s or 1960s, I think) Patons 4 and 3 ply 80% wool in some great colours.
As a spin off from the BIG Knit we are thinking of making a really fabulous afghan for the hospice to auction or raffle at their winter fundraiser. This yarn might just be the right stuff to use
What do you think?
xx
c
Gorgeous, all of it! And I like the idea of an afghan to be raffled off. Do you need more wool?
ReplyDeleteYes please we would love to have more wool. Anything that is not used on the day will be used for the afghan to raffle (more about this later)
ReplyDeleteBasingstoke is rather far away or I'd join you ... there's nothing like this planned here. Have fun :)
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