Friday, 18 February 2011

Garter Stitch 100 event- This Sunday 2pm-5pm

Square of knitting contributed for the Garter Stitch 100 Project
Please come along and join our event this Sunday from 2pm-5pm in support of Garterstitch 100's 100 million stitches for 100 million women initiative linking to International Women's day.

It is estimated that 100 million women are missing from the world due to gender discrimination. Each stitch will represent a woman "missing" for reasons including gender provoked infanticide or abortion, sex trafficking and complications in childbirth. See 
http://garterstitch100.posterous.com/ for more info.


Please bring your creativity and a cake to share if you'd like to. We'll provide, tea, needles and yarn (but if you'd like to bring your own you are very welcome!). If you haven't knitted before we can give you some coaching. Crocheters also invited!

Why not pop in and see our lovely neighbours at Prick your Finga to buy some supplies.


1 comment:

  1. I'll definitely try to pop by. Sounds really lovely! x

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