Crochet Jungle Project

 

Image: Kerry Lord 'Edwards Menagerie' courtesy of Toft Alpaca

Caroline at Toft Alpaca has been in touch to let me know about their upcoming community and charity project.

The Toft Alpaca Shop, Dunchurch, Warwickshire would like to offer people the opportunity to take part in an interactive community textile installation and fundraiser for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity and the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice. 

Kerry Lord’s 'Crochet Jungle’ project is designed to inspire imaginations and teach adults and children how to crochet.  It will become an immersive fundraising project where everyone is invited to pick up a hook and help make the space every little boy and girl dreams of falling asleep in.

Image courtesy Toft Alpaca

The #crochetjungle will initially be used as an installation at The Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia, London, to promote teaching young people to crochet and to fund raise by selling an exclusive monkey crochet pattern. After the Knitting and Stitching Show, the #crochetjungle will be taken on tour.

The Toft Alpaca Shop will be hosting drop-in sessions for anyone to help make the jungle.  The sessions will be on Sundays throughout February 2015. No skills are required, just enthusiasm, and all materials and tools are provided by generous donations.

Image courtesy Toft Alpaca