BE A WINNER?
Are you one of the many knitters who meets regularly with fellow crafters to knit together, whether that’s in a café, the librar y, a pub, your local yarn shop or even just someone’s front room?
Does your group provide a welcome space for likeminded people to chat, create and perhaps contribute to wor thwhile 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 deser ves to win.
Knitting clubs are at the hear t of the community and we want to shout about this by rewarding those groups that of fer something extraspecial.
As a thank you, ever yone 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 per fect project for groups as it’s made up of individual squares, so you and your club can create it together! The Knitting Club of the Year will be announced on March 14, and the winning club can enjoy a knitting bundle wor th £500, as well as fantastic recognition for their club.
HOW YOU CAN NOMINATE YOUR KNITTING CLUB:
Simply visit
before Januar y 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 shor tlisted and the Knitting Club of the Year will be announced on March 14, 2019.