K2TOG

Some more photographs of the finished piece.

Photo Call

I want to invite everyone who participated in K2TOG to a group photo call in front of the exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 4th August at 9:30am.

I would like as many people as possible to come along and be photographed in front of the exhibition so we can commemerate the mammoth effort made by the knitters of Birmingham and beyond.

Hope to see you all on 4th August.

Some more images from our first 2 days of sewing up panels for K2TOG.

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Completed panels for K2TOG

Don’t forget to return your panels to K2TOG pop up shop by Saturday 30 June

For more details about the shop visit http://knit2together.tumblr.com/popupshop

Photos from our knitting pentathlon event

We need your help

I am looking for volunteers to help stitch together panels for K2TOG.  We will be working from our project pop up shop located in the Pavilions.

You will need to have good basic sewing skills.  All materials will be provided.  There will, of course be tea, biscuits and my eternal grattitude.

If you have any availability between 1-15 July please contact info@stitchesandhos.co.uk

Stitches and Hos Knitting Pentathlon

Are you a knitting champion? 

Stitches and Hos invite knitters of all ages and abilities to take part in their knitting pentathlon. Come to our K2TOG pop up shop on Saturday 16 June to battle for woolly glory.

Events are:

Fastest cast on, pompom put, 300 stitch row, fastest skein wind and knitting marathon

Entry to knitting pentathlon is £1 per person.

Saturday 16 June 2-5pm, K2TOG pop up shop, Pavilions Birmingham.

For details of how to find the shop please visit here

Furniture Luck

I’ve been travelling around the West Midlands collecting and buying furniture for our K2TOG pop up shop. The shop will be a relaxing hub where anyone can drop in to knit a square or a few rows for the project.  If you’re not able to knit, don’t worry, there will be staff on hand to get you started and show you the basics.

It seems that my luck at finding a bargain is in at the moment, just when I need it.  Last Sunday I visited Studley Car Boot to hunt for treasures.  There wasn’t much treasure to be found but I did manage to buy a nest of coffee tables for under a tenner.

The luck continued when I got home.  No sooner had I tweeted about buying the first piece of booty, I received a text from a friend asking if I wanted a sofa, armchair and table.  All were in good state of repair but needed a new home as they had splashed out on new sofas.

The final piece of furniture luck came when I won not 1 but 2 wooden standard lamps on eBay for £8.  I went to collect them on Sunday and they look even better than the photo.

Our K2TOG pop up shop is located in Pavilions Birmingham Unit 13 on the lower ground floor (opposite Laura Ashley).  We’ll be open from Wednesday 2 May. Opening hours are Wednesdays - Saturdays 12 - 6pm and Sundays 12 - 5pm.  For details of how to get there visit here

Why don’t you pop in and say hello.

We need your help

We are trying to raise £2500 to help fund K2TOG - Knit 2 Together through crowd funding.  We’ve set up a Sponsume page where you can donate from as little as £1.

http://www.sponsume.com/project/k2tog-knit-2-together

We want to engage people from across the region to contribute to a visually spectacular artwork welcoming the American and Jamaican teams to Birmingham. We want to engage those who already knit, but also pass on traditional hand knitting skills to new people. The piece will be made by the people for the people.

The money raised will help fund workshops in order for the piece to be made. We will be going out into the local community in order to pass on the skill of hand knitting to those who have little experience of traditional crafts.

The money raised will also help to fund a pop-up shop in the Mailbox, Birmingham, a relaxing drop-in space where anyone can come to contribute to the piece and find out about the project. Staff will be on hand to teach basic knitting skills and local workers can pop-in over their lunch hour or after work to knit a square or just a few rows.

K2TOG - Knit 2 Together

This summer Sara Fowles and Stitches and Hos aim to cover with knitting the columns on the outside of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to commemorate the visit and stay in Birmingham of the Jamaican and American Olympic teams. A palette of six colours (red, white, blue, green yellow and black) will be used to create the installation.  The colours are taken from both team’s national flags and are the same colours used in the Olympic rings logo.