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!
Offchurch Craft Group
