HANDY with a crochet hook, needle and thread or are you a keen knitter? Any of those skills will be welcomed to meet the challenge of creating poppy-covered displays worthy of Cecil B DeMille for the Inverell 2016 Kurrajong Week.
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Even if you can only cut out a bit of fabric, people are invited to the Inverell Library on Monday, February 2 at 10am for an open day to learn the basics of how to make the poppies.
Kurrajong Re-enactment Committee members Kim Blomfield and Ann Hodgens have a hope to meet the 2016 Centenary with masses of the small red flowers in installations which have come to symbolise remembrance.
People around the world are teaming up to make poppies for their commemorations.
“This has become a bit of a world-wide phenomenon, originally inspired by the ceramic poppy display at the Tower of London,” Ann said, referring to the striking Poppies in the Moat; the 2014 installation of 800,000 ceramic flowers that swaddled the Tower in a field of red.
The committee plans to install poppy crosses; small white markers with a poppy in the centre, at the Kurrajong Memorial for each of the approximately 240 local men who died in the War. The Graman Sewing Group has created those flowers and the Inverell Men’s Shed has volunteered to create the crosses.
Ann said they would like to make another 1200 for the men and women in the district who went to the War for an installation at the railway station at the Pioneer Village where the re-enactment march concludes. More would be used in displays around Inverell during the event.
Materials and patterns will be available at the open day. Coffee and tea will be provided and people are welcome to bring a plate to share.
Donations of solid red or black felt or yarn are very welcome for the project. Material can be brought to the library and will be greatly appreciated.
