Parkes residents are once again being encouraged to attend the popular Knit ‘n’ Natter Day, to be held at Craft Corner on Thursday, July 27, from 10.30am.
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Your support or attendance will help keep someone less fortunate warm this winter.
The event is part of the Wrapped With Love project, which focuses on knitting wraps for charity and is celebrating its 25th year this year.
The popular program has been underway in Parkes for the past nine years.
Squares are knitted and crocheted by Craft Corner members, totalling about 30 people, as well as 18 visitors from the Orange City Library.
But Craft Corner member Margaret Tanner said an enormous number of squares, completed rugs and donations of 8ply wool are dropped off by members of the wider community.
“They are just a happy group of workers,” Margaret said.
The wool and squares are made into blankets or wraps for the needy in 30 countries, such as Africa, and others have been kept for those in need in Australia.
Craft Corner is still happy to accept any left over 8ply wool, or people can knit or crochet in 8ply yarn with No. 4 (4mm) needles, in garter stitch 25cms square.
Completed wraps are four squares wide and seven squares down.
All these can be left at Craft Corner at Clarinda Street between 9.30am-5pm from Monday to Friday, and on Saturday from 9.30am-2pm.
About the Wrap With Love project
With the generous and enthusiastic support of many knitters, area contacts, administration staff, the media, transport companies and aid organisations, we wrap more than 30,000 people with love and warmth each year, in Australia and around the world. Since 1992, we have wrapped more than 414,000 people with love and warmth, delivering aid to needy countries, some experiencing extreme poverty or other natural disasters, and some involved in war.
Distributing wraps: We work with national and international aid agencies of high repute, who make sure that our wraps are delivered directly to people in areas of trauma and need.