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donutsweeper) wrote2009-05-17 11:48 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2009-05-17 11:48 pm
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A close-knit community
It took 23 years but they knitted their entire village.
"At first sight, this looks like a classic British village.
There's a beautiful Norman church, two pubs, a shop, a school, a village hall, a huge Georgian manor house with landscaped gardens, teenagers slouched around the bus shelter and dozens of red-brick cottages with gardens in full bloom and vegetable patches bursting with cabbages, cauliflowers and sweet peas.....every inch of this village - Mersham, in Kent - has been lovingly knitted by a small group of very twinkly ladies who started 23 years ago with a couple of cottages and some pigs, and ended up creating more than 60 properties, complete with wheelie bins, outdoor loos, gas tanks, cars in the driveways and even a smart red telephone box."
Go take a look at the rest of the pictures. It's amazing.
"At first sight, this looks like a classic British village.
There's a beautiful Norman church, two pubs, a shop, a school, a village hall, a huge Georgian manor house with landscaped gardens, teenagers slouched around the bus shelter and dozens of red-brick cottages with gardens in full bloom and vegetable patches bursting with cabbages, cauliflowers and sweet peas.....every inch of this village - Mersham, in Kent - has been lovingly knitted by a small group of very twinkly ladies who started 23 years ago with a couple of cottages and some pigs, and ended up creating more than 60 properties, complete with wheelie bins, outdoor loos, gas tanks, cars in the driveways and even a smart red telephone box."
Go take a look at the rest of the pictures. It's amazing.
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And as someone who has, over the years, knitted and made knitted toys, I can attest to the fact that these things aren't as easy as they look.
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