In Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the Thirsk Yarnbombers have knit 40,000 knitted and crocheted poppies – using 450 miles of yarn!
In Commonwealth countries, the red remembrance poppy is a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day (observed on November 11th every year), due to the poem “In Flanders Fields” written by Canadian doctor Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
It’s an incredible accomplishment.
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The Thirsk Yarnbombers knit 40,000 poppies to mark Remembrance Day this year. (Photo: South West News Service)
The knitters used more than 450 miles of yarn, the distance from Thirsk to Normandy. (Photo: South West News Service)
