St Edmund's Crafty Knitters (Downham Market, Norfolk): knitters

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Worldwide Knit in Public Day 14th June 2012

Today, the sun shone, the knitters came, a community was formed. What a fab day! Below are images of the knitters outdoors at Downham Town Square, Nik demonstrating spinning to a group of school children, Maid Fibre the lovely narrow boat fibre people, church helpers, etc etc. Even Jo Garner from the Lynn News who came to cover the event, stayed and crocheted with us!

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Nik, who is a beginner to spinning, brought Myrtle to demonstrate the art of spinning alpaca wool to a group of children from Hillcrest School.

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The lovely people from Maid of Fibre abandoned their narrow boat at St Ives, and drove over to join us! Lovely to meet Maggie, Richard and Stewart. So good to have a man knitting with us!!!


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Below are the people who added value to our event! The people who got there at 8.30 to festoon the town hall with bunting (you know who you are). Marian, Dot and Jen who made tea and coffee all morning. Doug and Monica who ran the raffle. A huge thank you to you all.

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Shall we do it all again next year? I would say so! It was such fun. Come and join us next year! It runs from Sat 8th - Sun 16th June 2013.

Thursday, 12 April 2012

We are going to "Knit in Public" on 14th June 2012

We have had to rethink the date for this, and have now booked the Bar Room of the Town Hall for Thursday 14th June between 10 and 12. Parking available on the Market Place. Hoping to see lots and lots of knitters from locally and a bit further afield. At present, we are the only event in Norfolk for this worldwide event. We are hoping to spill out onto the Town Square (if fine), but have to seek permission from the Town Council for this first.

For further details about Worldwide Knit in Public, here is the official website. I will register us there today.

http://www.wwkipday.com/

Here is our poster for the day:

About us

St Edmund's Crafty Knitters (formerly known as St. Edmund's Knit and Crochet Group) formed at the end of Jan 2012, the idea of a few members of the church congregation (who like knitting and crocheting!). We held an inital evening, and were pleased with the interest. Since then, we have met every second Tuesday morning of the month at 10am and every last Tuesday evening of the month at 7.30pm. We have two distinct groups but the overlap is becoming more blurred with the lighter evenings. We would love to welcome you at our sessions. Bring a friend or two! We meet at St Edmund's Church Hall, entrance is free, we just give a donation to cover the cost of filter coffee or tea and biscuits.