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April’s group meeting was very busy. Andy Hunter
from Blythswood Care showed a short film of last
year’s “shoe-boxes” being distributed in Eastern
Europe and stressed the importance of the hats,
gloves, scarves and puppets that we produce to
put into the boxes.
We also had a visit from Diana Malling of
Sainsburys. The store’s adopted charity is the
West Wiltshire Special Needs Activity Scheme and Diana had asked us to knit chicks
for them. The chicks will contain a crème egg, provided by Sainsburys, and be sold at
their Melksham branch. We managed to produce 210 chicks for Diana.
Emma Leith also dropped in to collect the roses that we had crocheted for her. Emma
will be using the roses to yarn-bomb Bath during Bath Fashion Week and each rose
will raise 10p for the charity Kids’ Company. We managed to produce 409 roses in a
month.
The chicks and roses were in addition to our usual items; jumpers, hats and blankets
for Operation Orphan, hats and teddies for Facing Africa, and bedcapes, bedsocks
and knee blankets for the RUH.
The group meets on the first Thursday of the month and our sister group, Knit &
Natter, meets on the third Thursday of the month; both meetings are held at the
Corsham Community Centre, starting at 10:00 and all are welcome.
If you would like to know more about the group or our projects please contact our
chairman Meg Waugh (01225852387) or follow us on our Facebook page - Corsham
Knitting & Crochet Group – which has photographs of our work.
ENVIRONMENTALLY SPEAKING
Following on from our February item, enthusing Yer Tiz readers to plant Wild Flower
seeds to improve air quality.
BBC TV have launched a MAJOR campaign to get Wild Flower seeds scattered in as
many places as possible to help towards cleaner air, save Wild Bees, to attract
insects which will feed our wild birds...
The BBC TV rural programme 'Country File' are sending out FREE PACKETS of
Wild Flower Seeds one to each address. Kew Gardens have organised 230,000
packets!! This is a truly serious Campaign!! To obtain YOUR FREE SEEDS go on
line to countryfile.growwildukseeds.com
Packs of wild flower ͕