Knit for Diabetes
Posted February 8th, 2008 by Holli Yeoh
Holli is the WCKG past president. She runs a home-based knitwear design business while caring for her young son.
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Have you ever wanted to be part of something BIG? Then join Knit for Diabetes. Tricia Edgar, the brainchild of the project talked to our members this month.
• Help raise funds for the Canadian Diabetes Association’s diabetes research and education programs.
• Help knit the world’s largest knitted sculpture – a silver-gray diabetes awareness ribbon. Tricia is looking for hundreds of knitters to participate. Tell your friends!
• Tricia and her friends are trying to beat diabetes…and the world record for a knitted sculpture, of course! You can be a part of this. The current record holder for the largest knitted sculpture is an enormous pink bunny on an Italian mountainside. Tricia’s goal is for the awareness ribbon to be at least 80 metres long!
• What do you need to do? Knit a garter stitch scarf out of silver or gray yarn, approximately 1 metre long and 20 centimetres wide. Please use 5 1/2 or 6 mm needles and don’t sew in the ends (they’ll be used for joining the scarves). If you live in the Vancouver area, please contact Michael’s craft store in North Vancouver if you would like a ball of FREE GRAY YARN that they have donated to the cause.
• Tricia also needs help covering the ribbon with the names of donors from coast to coast! Everyone who donates at least $5 to the campaign will have their name placed on the ribbon as it is displayed.
• Do you know an artist or craftsperson? After the ribbon is created and displayed, artists will decorate each piece of the giant ribbon, and the pieces will be sold as gorgeous scarves! All proceeds will be donated to the campaign.
• For more information, contact Tricia at: knitfordiabetes AT hotmail DOT com
or call 604-842-3251.
To donate to Tricia’s Canadian Diabetes Association fundraising efforts, head to www.diabetes.ca and click on Team Diabetes – Pledge a Participant – Tricia Edgar.
