Raffle prizes

We now have a full list of the prizes that have been donated for the raffle:

• Half an Offchurch lamb
• £25 garden voucher
• £50 voucher for the Stag at Offchurch
• £50 voucher for Mem-saab 
• Breakfast voucher for Hilltop Farm Cafe
• Pair of tickets for Warwick Castle
• Wool Warehouse blanket kit
• Bottle of Champagne
• Bottle of Brandy
• Hamper from Acorns

A big thank you to everyone who has donated prizes.  We hope we manage to sell all the tickets during the sixteen days!

World Wide Knit in Public Day!

– Better living through stitching together!

WWKIP Day is unique, in that it’s the largest knitter run event in the world.
Each local event is put together by a volunteer or a group of volunteers.

Offchurch KnittiGraffiti has registered to take part on this day and there will be wool, needles, equipment and hooks available for anyone to have a go at a bit of knitting, finger knitting, crochet or pom pom making.  Just pick up a ball of wool from a basket and make a start - or pick up from where someone else has left off. 

Preparations

We're starting to prepare for the big event.....

Finn helping Nanna to sew squares together

You can be assured of a very warm one of these when you visit KnittiGraffiti!

Tim's busy building an aviary for all our lovely birds!

Tantalising Snippets

Creepy!!  The owner of these legs will be hiding in a dark corner, try and find him!

You will be blown away when you see the rest of this display!!

Anyone for ... badminton?

The children will be charmed by this lovely horse - and the adults will be amazed!

Another bird for the collection

More pics!!

A Woolly Jigsaw

Trying to piece together some squares and strips to make a 5' block to wrap around a tree!!

A certain grandson was very excited when he saw his scooter!!

Lots of other birdy friends are coming to the party!!

 

We've filled our first box!

Our first box is chock-a-block with lovely colourful woolly bits and bobs!  We've taken some photographs of what's in it.  We hope it will encourage you to get those needles and hooks flying!  

Lots of squares and strips

More squares and strips

More squares

Appliques, an owl, flowers, a mouse, a wreath and other twiddly bits!

 We must nearly have a tree full by now!!

 More photos to come later on in the week. 

Offchurch KnittiGraffiti

The craft group have plans to yarn bomb part of Offchurch village this year.  This will be during Warwickshire Open Studios (18 June to 3 July).  We are hoping that during these two weeks much of the village field (trees, swings, railings, etc) will be festooned with colour, along with various other little projects.

We hope this will encourage people to stay in the village a while longer when they visit Open Studios in St. Gregory's church, and we plan to do tea, coffee and cakes in one of the gardens on the three weekends to raise money for Acorns Children's Hospice and St. Gregory's Kitchen Fund.

Obviously, the more help we can get, the more we can do!  So we are asking for villagers' help by knitting and/or crocheting squares and strips.  5” squares are a good size to be sewn together for the swings and railings along with any length of strips, but we also need much larger squares (any size) to decorate the trees. 

We need birds, animals, flowers, insects and butterflies (any type, any size).  Also knitted bunting.

Once the exhibition is finished we don’t intend to scrap all the hard work and will be washing and re-sewing many of the squares and strips into blankets and scarves to donate to charity. 

The two things we need to remember are Cheerful and Chunky.  The larger the needles or hook and the thicker the wool, the quicker it will grow.  The brighter the wool, the more it will stand out. 

We think it might get quite addictive!  Children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces will hopefully all get involved – finger knitting and pom poms will be needed – and it would be a good opportunity to learn a new skill.  Just think how exciting it will be for them to find their own piece of work once it’s in place!    

We hope you will visit us - and enjoy!

Offchurch Craft Group