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Support Our Knitted Village!
“We’re looking for Lego!” says Mary Hawkins of the Knitting & Crochet Guild of Great Britain. “It’s not that we’ve changed tack in what we are collecting – it’s to support our knitted village!”
Much-Knitting-by-the-Sea is the name of the village created by Morecambe resident Dorothy Entwistle by way of recuperating after an operation. Although the village is imaginary, it does include: Dorothy’s own bungalow, her local church, Trinity Methodist Church on Morecambe’s West End Promenade, and many, many more buildings. The knitted village first went on public display in November 1992.
“The intervening years have not been kind to the cardboard and sellotape which hold the houses together,” says Mary. “The Guild has taken the decision to build more permanent frameworks in Lego or Duplo, and to drop the houses over like tea cosies.”
Can you help?
Donations of these plastic building bricks are being now sought towards the upkeep of the village. They may be sent by post to:
The Collection Co-ordinator
PO Box 4421, Kidderminster, DY11 6YW
… or brought along to any of the Guild’s Open Days near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, when parts of the village will be on view, along with possibly the largest and most exciting collection of knitting and crochet in Britain.
The dates for Open Days (all Saturdays) in 2006 are 18 March, 15 April, 20 May, 12 August, 16 September, 14 October. It is essential that visitors should check the website a few days before travelling, as the days are set a long way ahead for magazine deadlines and are staffed entirely by volunteers.
If you cannot visit in person, feast your eyes on the virtual collection here