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| Happy 100th Birthday Banner |
It's Rowntree Park's 100th Birthday this year. To celebrate, with the help of the local community and anyone who wants to join in, Deborah New and I are making a Butterflies & Bees and Happy 100th Birthday Yarnstorm. Part of that involves crafting a Happy 100th Birthday banner which will go on the tennis court fence in the park in York.
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| Edna Shilleto and her crochet |
We have been very much helped in this endeavour by Edna Shilleto who gave us myriads of her lovely colourful crochet squares in two sizes. Edna is a member of the Fairfax Court Yarnstormers and has been a stalwart of our yarnstorming projects over the years so it has been great to have her squares for this project!
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| Edna's crochet squares in 2 sizes |
Putting these together to make the birthday banner has proved quite a task involving roughly 15m of plastic fencing which acts as the backing onto which the crochet squares are fixed.
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| Plastic fencing |
Here I am attaching the squares...
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| Making the banner |
There were even enough crochet squares to make a large butterfly too...
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| Large crochet butterfly |
and a second smaller one!
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| Smaller crochet butterfly |
It looks like the banner is going to be almost 11m long and about 1.2m tall. The large butterfly is about 1.45m by 1.35m (including antennae) and the small one approx. 1.20m by 1.07m. And so far it's used 49 large crochet squares and 205 small ones - thank you, Edna!
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| Birthday Banner with Butterflies & Bees |
It has taken about 75 hours to put together (not including the giant stitched bees which you can read about here). And that doesn't include all the time Edna spent crocheting the squares in the first place or the time spent planning out the design and choosing the colours and working out the layout.
Here's the information sign that will accompany the banner...
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| Info sign to accompany the banner |
The banner goes up on 13 July weather permitting - in time for the park's birthday on 16 July 2021. Do take a visit to the park and check it out.
You've still time to join in with the Butterflies & Bees Yarnstorm. All the details are here and the patterns are here or use your own patterns if you prefer. All makes have to be in by the end of July 2021. You can leave them in the collection basket at Rowntree Park Cafe.
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| Collection Basket in Rowntree Park Cafe |
The butterflies and bees will go on display in time for the August Bank holiday and will be in place till the end of September after which they will be sold to raise money for the Friends of Rowntree Park, who work hard to help maintain, improve and promote the park for everyone's enjoyment.
So, as well as the Happy 100th Birthday banner, keep a lookout for the Butterflies & Bees Yarnstorm at the end of August 2021 and for the sale dates in October 2021.
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