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Beeston care home resident knits for baby unit at local hospital

09/07/2021 by Digital Media

A resident at MHA Queenswood care home in Beeston has been busy putting her knitting skills to good use by creating items for premature babies at a local hospital. Cindy, aged 75, started knitting for the baby unit at QMC hospital in Nottingham after staff noticed she knitted regularly for her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beeston Tagged With: Beeston, Knitting, Queen’s Medical Centre

Burton Joyce hooked on local festive knitting projects

10/12/2020 by Digital Media

In December a group of local friendly knitters were hard at work creating more yarn critters to decorate the village of Burton Joyce on the lead up to Christmas. Sally Fletcher-Titterton along with a ‘Wool Fairy’ friend and a young ‘Elf Helper’ have together knitted some incredible festive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Calverton & Burton Joyce Tagged With: Burton Joyce, Christmas, community, Knitting, nottinghamshire

Beauty out of ugliness – museum’s knitted Covid-19 set to ‘go viral’

14/04/2020 by Digital Media

Helen Brownett, Textile Artist & Technical Demonstrator at the Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham, has designed her own version of a Covid-19 virus – and knitted it in 3D on one of the museum’s antique circular knitting machines. Helen put the finishing touches to the blue … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Rushcliffe Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID, Framework Knitters Museum, Knitting, Ruddington

 

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