I work in Stash Fine Yarns in Chester and am also a member of a knitting group there, and we sadly lost a dear friend and owner of the shop, Helen Probert, to cancer in February.  I came up with the idea of decorating something with knitting in honour of her.

 In Chester there is a bronze sculpture of an elephant, donated to the council by Chester Zoo.  I got in touch with the council and they kindly agreed that we could decorate the sculpture for a couple of weeks.

The knitting group made squares and we stitched them together to make larger pieces in order to "yarn-bomb" the sculpture.  I don't know if you have heard of this before, there was a lot of it in Yorkshire when the Tour de France went through.  It is usually done anonymously, under cover of darkness(!), but we wanted to do it as a tribute to Helen so thought we ought to get permission first. 

We would like to raise some money for MacMillan with this project.  I have set up a “Text to Donate” number which we have displayed on the elephant for people to donate if they so wish. Or you can do it now by texting COVE48 £2 to 70070.

 We decorated the elephant today, Sunday 14th^h September, and the knitting will be in place for two weeks.  Please have a look at the photos.

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