One Last Poppy

Many thanks to Brenda C for sending in a picture of her lovely poppy brooch, below. I like the way she has used a button for the centre, as a few people have.


The Knit a Poppy campaign for 2009 is officially closed.
Knitonthenet would like to thank everyone for their kind donations which ultimately totalled £2684.00.

See you same time, same place next year.

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Knit a Poppy Campaign - Many Thanks

The Knit a Poppy Campaign is drawing to a close at midnight tonight GMT.
As editor Susan says, 'Donations have surpassed our wildest dreams standing at present at £2632.00. It's quite astonishing, thank you all so much...' adding that there is still time however if you would still like to get your poppy pattern by making your £2 donation here.

I'd like to echo Susan's thanks to everyone who downloaded the pattern and donated to the very worthy Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in doing so.

There have been some interesting adaptations of the original pattern with great results.
Here are just a few of the poppies you have all made.

by Gavin Crawford


by Skein Queen's 12 year old son


by Skiff Vintage


by Ingrid and Grace Murnane

by Chrissy Fletcher

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Knitonthenet on the Airwaves

Airline Tele-Dial Radio by The Rocketeer on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence.

Knitonthenet has had some great coverage on radio and podcasts recently.

BBC Radio 2's Sarah Kennedy talked about the Knit a Poppy campaign on 3rd November which led to flood of downloads of the pattern! A big thank you to her for that. If you are in the UK, you can listen-again to her radio show on BBC iPlayer here for the rest of the week. If it makes it to a podcast I will link to that too for everybody else.

Since the announcement we have raised £1690 for the British Legion. Many thanks to all who have donated by downloading the pattern.

Hoxton Handmade also gave us a review on her excellent podcast, the Electric Sheep. It starts at about 23 minutes into Episode 15.

In reviewing both Issues 8 and 9 of knitonthenet, she made special mention of the Glamour issue's Miss Moneypenny cardigan, Quadrato headscarf, Miss De Havilland top and Joan Crawford jacket. Also of the two scarf/belt Bravado patterns and Mia sunhat in the current Wanderlust issue. Check it out!

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Poppy Gallery: 1

Remembrance Poppy by Milliebead on Flickr

Here is the first of our featured poppy brooches, made by Millie (mildunk on Ravelry), for knitonthenet's Knit a Poppy Campaign. Isn't it gorgeous?

You can download the pattern and help to support the British Legion's Poppy Appeal by visiting the knitonthenet site.

Please do send a photo of your finished brooch to ingrid(at)knitonthenet.com or post it in the Ravelry group. We'd love to see yours.

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Poppies, poppies, poppies.

Exciting news! knitonthenet's Knit a Poppy Campaign is featured in This Week in Ravelry #61.

This coincides with the official launch today of the British Legion's 2009 Poppy Appeal which supports present and former members of the British armed forces and their families, emotionally, socially and financially.

We hope to get lots more people downloading Just call me Ruby's pattern and donating some money to support the British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

If you are one of them, please do add your brooch as a Ravelry project, share it with the knitonthenet group and post a photograph of your finished poppy in the knitonthenet forum.

For those not on Ravelry, you can also email me at ingrid[at]knitonthenet[dot]com and I will be posting photographs of the poppies in the blog and on our facebook fan page.

We are keeping a total of how much has been raised on the site: at the time of writing it stands at £224. Please do let us know if you raise further monies for the appeal with your poppies.

To start the gallery of poppies, here is my first effort. Let's see yours!

Poppy Brooch by InnyM on Flickr

Ingrid
editorial assistant

Knit a Poppy for Remembrance Day

knitonthenet is proud to announce the return of our Knit a Poppy campaign in support of The Poppy Appeal.

The Royal British Legion provides financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their dependants. Currently, nearly 10.5 million people are eligible for their support and they receive thousands of calls for help every year.
Please visit knitonthenet to download our elegant poppy brooch pattern (designed by Just call me Ruby) by making a donation of £2.00 to The Poppy Appeal.

We shall be keeping you updated of the Knit a Poppy Campaign via the blog and website, and would love to see photographs of your finished brooches, and also hear how much money you have raised. Please do remember to attribute your finished poppy to the knitonthenet appeal and Just call me Ruby as designer!

Best wishes
Ingrid, editorial assistant
the knitonthenet team