One woman spent more than 50 hours making a postbox topper tribute
Crafters have commemorated Remembrance Day by adorning postboxes with poignant knitted and crocheted tributes which include planes, soldiers and poppies. People from Yarn Bomb Hemel Hempstead – which has more than 900 members, 30 of whom are active – has put up roughly 35 toppers – both old and new – to pay their respects to those who served.
“We’ve got Irish Guards, we’ve got the Royal Scots. One lady called Margaret felt that we had a lot of men represented so she made figures representing the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force , Women’s Royal Naval Service and Auxiliary Territorial Service .” Caroline Lord, who is based in Raunds, Northamptonshire, spent more than 50 hours creating her remembrance topper, which features a Spitfire and poppies, inspired by her father who is an ex-services man. The 48-year-old who is an artist and mature student, currently studying for her computer science degree with the Open University, told PA: “My father Terry O’Donovan, aged 75, is an ex-service man who served in the RAF both overseas and in the UK.
Mrs Lord – who is also a founder member of the Raunds Yarn Bombers – used her artistic flair when making the topper, thinking of creative ways to pay her respects to the fallen soldiers who once served the country. “I started by sketching the Spitfire, roughly to scale and working to make its wing shapes in a simple single crochet pattern, with increases added at the points necessary to create the shape I wanted,” she said.
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