A crafting group in Hertfordshire is celebrating the forthcoming Olympic Games in Paris by crocheting and knitting sporting events to decorate local postboxes.
Around 100 members of the Secret Society of Hertford Crafters spent months knitting, crocheting and crafting the 37 postbox toppers which will appear in Hertford and Ware.
The decorations, made of mostly recycled materials, pay tribute to different events and aspects of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, with spectators, athletes, flags and medals making up the pieces.
“It’s a wonderful feeling to know that you have made someone happy.”
Ms Ellis said the creations took “months and months” to craft, adding “We just generally follow patterns. Some of us, some very, very clever ones can make them up.”
Another piece, which Ms Ellis worked on, shows knitted figurines of the group with “TEAM YB” (Yarnbomber) written on their tops, with some engaging in sports, others knitting and two figurines placing yarn and needles on top of a postbox.
“The people who know us can identify each one of us… I’m on a ladder putting the basket of wool on the top and I am the one with the straight blonde hair.”
Ms Ellis said faces are the hardest things to create and, while some people are very good at them, they are “really really tricky”.
“They were doing the faces because we wanted them all to be more or less the same.”
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