Today is Remembrance Sunday
although the original name was Armistice Day and this seems more appropriate
this year on the centenary of the end of World War 1.
Normally I knit poppies or
something including poppies to remember my great granddad Thomas Wade who was
killed in 1917, but this year as many of you will know – I knitted a Memorial
Quilt to remember him and the other now 77 known men lost by my family. I am including below the best photo I have
seen of the quilt which was taken by Karen Draisey of Oxford Yarn Store.
The quilt was hard to photograph because
it was so big (note to self: make something smaller next time). In the photo the quilt is being held up by 2
men standing on chairs.
If anyone wants to see the quilt “in
person” – it is on display in Oxford Yarn Store until the end of the month.
I have started thinking about my
next eccentric project but I have nothing coherent to write down yet. Several people have asked me about how I come
up with designs – so I will try to put down my workings rather than just the
end results. I could just mention that I
am thinking about a project which I will not start until January at the
earliest.
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