WOOLLY BUNTING TO WELCOME THE OLYMPIC TORCH TO DOVER
Bunting Forever was launched on 23 July 2011 as part of DAD's open weekend 2011 events. Over the next year, we will be producing lengths of hand-made woolly bunting to decorate the town for the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Dover in 2012. At the launch, a group of volunteers from Dover Community Craft Group sat around The Table, a sculpture created by artists Anthony Heywood and Uwe Derksen from the University for the Creative Arts, and were joined by local shoppers and tourists of many nationalities, as they knitted and crocheted triangles of Woolly Bunting.
A significant length of bunting has already been assembled, although we need lots more.
If you'd like to take part, go along to one of the workshops Julie Bishop will be leading over the next 12 months or if it is difficult to get to the workshops you can try following the patterns attached below. Julie also leads a Knit and Natter session at Amina's Café.
To make bunting flags in the Olympic colours you will need wool in the following pantone colours:
Purple – pantone 254 Orange – pantone 171 Yellow – Pantone 3945 Green – Pantone 368 Blue – Pantone 312
Workshop 1: 6 August 2011, 10am - 4pm, DAD studio, Old Sorting Office Charlton Green Dover, opposite Morrisons
Workshop 2: 29 August, 2011, 10am - 7pm, as part of Kent Miners Festival, Aylesham Village Centre, near Dover,
Workshop 3: 17 September, 2011, 12.30 - 4.00pm, DAD studio, Old Sorting Office Charlton Green Dover, opposite Morrisons, preceded by knitting in the Market Square, 10.00 - 12.00am during the screening of Dovertime.
Workshop 4: 8 October 2011, 10.00 - 2.00pm, Shepherdswell village Hall, near Dover, alongside Macmillan coffee morning and craft fair
Workshop 5:29 October 2011, 10.00am-4.00pm, DAD studio, Old Sorting Office Charlton Green Dover, opposite Morrisons
Workshop 6: 26 November, The Curve, Dover Discovery Centre, Market Square 12.00pm-4pm, to coincide with Dover Town Council Christmas event
Workshop 7: 18 February 2012, The Curve, Dover Discovery Centre, Market Square 10.00am-4pm
Knit and Natter: Monday afternoons between 2pm and 4pm at Amina's Cafe: 22 Biggin Street Dover, CT16 1BH
