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We’re all getting a bit tired of quarantining, but if you’re a needleworker, you had the opportunity to make history, or at least the Guinness Book of World Records.
Needleworkers in the U.K. have created a 9-mile long flag — 79,001 knitted flags in all spaced no more than two inches apart. Quite the sewing circle! Admittedly, the knitters had more time on their hands than usual as a result of the Covid-19 shutdown, but hey, what a way to make good use of your time.
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This month’s cohosts are: Susan Scott, Lizbeth Hartz, Shilpa Garg, Mary Giese and Damyanti Biswas.
Happy Friday y’all. Spread some love this weekend.
pam lazos 5.29.20
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What a glorious string of flags made by so many to create a thing for good. I agree, Pam–let’s use that to connect us and show we all strive to make a world worth celebrating. x
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🙌🙏👏
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Love this!!!
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What a project. I wonder what they’ll do with all that bunting, it sounds like enough to circle the average Devon village.
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Yeah, good question, Cath. Maybe they can be peace flags and travel around the globe. 🌎 🙏
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I’m late to comment here Pam due to working out in the yard two solid days over the weekend – a job for younger legs I realized by Monday morning when even my fingers hurt and I felt like I was run over by a Mack truck. Yikes! My mom was a knitter ’til the last few years of her life after becoming over-zealous and churning out two afghans for my grandmother’s couch as well as matching pillows and doing one for herself and me with matching pillows. She had never knit afghans before and ended up with carpal tunnel syndrome, surgery for both hands and a favorite hobby was nixed forevermore. Before that she had concentrated on baby clothes, or sweaters, vests and knitted hat/scarf/gloves or mitten sets. I’ve still got an unfinished baby sweater in her knitting bag. I wondered if one day, when retired, I’d learn how to knit and finish that project, but I’m not sure I have the patience to learn. Mom tried to teach me repeatedly how to knit and I dropped stitches. I am going to pass this post onto a fellow blogger who is an avid knitter.
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I’m with you, Linda. A knitter I’m not. I can manage to the same stitch, but nothing fancier than that. ;-0)
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I should have learned to crochet Pam – the big spaces between stitches are okay there. 🙂
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😂😂😂
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What a neat project!!
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Love this project! Thank you for sharing. I knit a little when it gets cooler – cat blankets and scarves. I prefer crochet
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It does take your mind odd things to knit. 🥰
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Wow. Some people are so talented, but I’m not one of them. But it is uplifting news and I feel better already 🙂
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😂🤣🙌🧶
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Hi Pam – what an amazing project and I see organised and set up down in Devon, with the flags coming from all over the world. Amazing what can be done … and the hows and whys – such a fun post and so appropriate at this time – take care … Hilary
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Do you knit or crochete, Hilary? Sounds like a good thing to be part of next time around!😂
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Absolutely not!!!!! I can’t wear wool … and so knitting has been kicked out of my life decades ago …or crocheting … even though one can do it with cotton now – I’m not patient or neat enough … so no luck here!!! I cobble things together if I have to … take care – Hilary …. with Absolutely Not ringing in your ears!!
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I’m the same. My grandmother was a prolific knitter but not my mom. My grandmother, my yiayia, who barley spoke English taught me to knit 🧶 but I don’t pay close enough attention, get impatient, and end up giving up. I can make a scarf or a blanket but after that I’m lost. 🤣
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The flags come from all over the world. What a project!
Morning, Pam. Enjoy the weekend.
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And yet one woman pieced it all together!
You enjoy your weekend, too, Neil. Looks like a good one in our part of the world.🌎 🙏
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What a cool project. I’ve not heard/read about this and I like it. Both the results and the way in which it allows people to have something purposeful to do while quarantined.
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Yes, bringing people together while still apart. 🤗
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Blow me down with a feather – the visuals are wonderful Pam! Great post 🙂 Have a great weekend, and hope you’re all well xx
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Haha – love that, and you, too, Susan!🦅(that’s as close as I could get to a feather!)
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