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...]
Burton Joyce hooked on local festive knitting projects
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...]
Beauty out of ugliness – museum’s knitted Covid-19 set to ‘go viral’
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...]