January 2017 Web

Remembrance Sunday 2016
At St. James Church, Enfield
Highway, the flower team, of
which I am a member,
decided to get some of the
congregation involved in the
Remembrance Sunday
display last year.
Having seen knitted poppies
in a fantastic display at the
St. John the Baptist, Barnet,
flower festival, in the
September, we acquired the
pattern and asked members
of our congregation to knit
poppies for us (we knitted some too!). I purchased some
‘military’ buttons which were sewn into the centre of the poppies
keeping the theme of the display.
The poppies were pinned randomly onto black garden netting
and then draped around the font. A few poppies were wired
(carefully!) to the font cover. In front of the font a wooden cross
was held upright in a container of sand. The ends of the netting
were used to hide the base of the cross and the sand. Finally, a
piece of red velour material was draped around the shoulders of
the cross. In all we had seventy-eight knitted poppies and the
display was breathtaking.
One male member of the congregation was moved to tears by it.
The sign alongside the display “We will remember them”
certainly made an impact in 2016.
Carole Harvey, Chairman, London branch
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