Does Your Club Deserve To Be A Winner?
Let’s Knit magazine is looking for the Knitting Club of the Year!
Are you one of the many knitters who meets regularly with fellow crafters to knit together, whether that’s in a café, the library, a pub, your local yarn shop or even just someone’s front room?
Does your group provide a welcome space for like-minded people to chat, create and perhaps contribute to worthwhile causes?
If so, your group could be in the running for a new award, the first to celebrate knitting clubs and the value they bring to those who attend them.
Launched by Let’s Knit, the UK’s best-selling knitting magazine, the Knitting Club of the Year award has been created to reward those clubs that enrich the lives of their members and often the wider community through contributing to good causes and local projects.
Whether you joined to meet new people, to catch up with old friends, to get involved with charity campaigns or just because you love to knit, we want to hear about your knitting group and why it deserves to win.
Knitting clubs are at the heart of the community and we want to shout about this by rewarding those groups that offer something extra-special.
As a thank you, everyone who nominates a club will receive a FREE download for a fabulous knit and crochet blanket pattern by top designer Susie Johns. It’s the perfect project for groups as it’s made up of individual squares, so you and your club can create it together!
Free knit-and-crochet pattern when you nominate your club
The Knitting Club of the Year will be announced on March 14, 2019 and the winning club can enjoy a knitting bundle worth £500, as well as fantastic recognition for their club.
Sarah of Let’s Knit magazine would love to hear from you. “Knitting clubs are a lifeline for many people and contribute huge efforts towards charity campaigns and community projects. We wanted to recognise and reward these clubs for the great things they’re doing, so we created a special award just for them!”
Why Get Involved?
- Every member who nominates receives a FREE download for a fabulous knit and crochet blanket pattern
- The successful club will WIN a massive knitting bundle for their group to enjoy, worth £500
- To show your appreciation to those behind your club
- It’s great for commu-knitty spirit!
- To gain recognition for your club in Let’s Knit and My Weekly magazines
Win this bundle of goodies worth £500!
Knitting Is A Lifeline For Many
Ms Kim French from Community Craft Club, Dagenham, Essex, says:
I’m a wheelchair user and needed a creative outlet. I asked friends if they would like to get together to craft. I found a hall across the road to where I lived and now seven years later we have 18+ members of all ages. We do different crafts – knitting, crochet, beading, diamond craft, découpage, quilting, many more – and have lovely refreshments. We share tips and support each other – not just about crafts. I organise trips for the members, too.
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How You Can Nominate Your Knitting Club
Simply visit www.letsknit.co.uk/knittingclub before January 18, 2019 and fill out the online form letting us know a little bit about your club, what you get up to and why you love going. Be sure to include the reasons why your club is one of a kind! When nominations close, the stand-out clubs will be shortlisted and the Knitting Club of the Year will be announced on March 14, 2019.
Allison Hay
I joined the "My Weekly" team thirteen years ago and, more recently, "The People's Friend". I love the variety of topics we cover both online and in the magazines. I manage the digital content for the brands, sharing features and information on the website, social media and in our digital newsletters.
