8,000 knitted poppies made for Worcester remembrance display

A display featuring 8,000 individually knitted and crocheted poppies has been unveiled at St John’s Church in Worcester.

It has been created by the local Knit and Knatter group which has worked with the Royal British Legion (RBL) to bring the project to life.

Russ Trudge from the RBL said “the ladies have worked a total of [about] 2,800 hours just sewing the poppies on to the netting.”

The remembrance display will be up for the next two weeks.

The work was done by a group of 17 volunteers.

Among them was Pat Richardson who said seeing the completed project made her “really impressed; I thought ‘did we really do this’?

“When we first got the netting [that] we would be sewing all the poppies on back in August, we all just stood with our mouths open because it was just such a big bundle… you could fish the North Sea with it.

“Every Friday, between 10 and 17 of us would just sit and sew. At some points we thought ‘we don’t want to do this anymore’ but then we could see the end of the netting and it was quite exciting.

“Now it’s up, it looks amazing, even to us who made it.

“[But] if anyone asks us to do it again, we would say ‘no’.”