Pink Project

	A little while ago Elaine, a friend from the Knitters Guild in Sydney, sent me a few lovely pink ‘scrumbles’ that she had made for a project that didn’t go ahead. She was wondering what else could be done with them, and so now we have decided to use them to start off a fundraiser for breast cancer research.
Remembering how much fun I had when I was piecing together all the patches and motifs contributed for the 'coat of many Scrumbles' project (using hundreds of freeform patches contributed by members of the International Freeform Crochet Guild), I am again volunteering to join everything together for another group project - this time to create a range of things like handbags, scarves, cushions or whatever, which we will eventually auction off (on-line, later this year) to raise money for cancer research.
	So please join us and contribute a scrumble or two of your own to the ‘pink project' Now you can laugh if you want, and say…‘hmmm, so that is how Prudence manages to create so many things - she gets other people to do the knitting and crochet’ ;-) and yes, that is exactly what will happen this time, but hopefully we will be able to put together a good range of interesting pieces, and the funds raised will go to a good cause. 100% of the money raised will be donated to breast cancer research.
If you are an experienced freeformer I hope that you will be able to manage a small scrumble or two; if you have never freeformed before, it will be a good excuse for you to have a go, without feeling the need to plan a complete project yourself. Your pieces can be made using knitting or crochet or a combination of both crafts together, or you might even like to incorporate other crafts like felting, beading, embroidery etc as well. There are no ‘rules', apart from the fact that, if you are overseas, then you shouldn’t use any feathers or seeds or the like (as the Australian quarantine people won’t let your pieces into the country when you mail to me)…and there is no rush to create your pieces; none of the stitching up will begin until after mid-year (2008) Once you have completed your pieces, mail them off to me: Prudence Mapstone P O Box 5242 Daisy Hill, Qld., 4127 Australia Later in the year full details of the auctions will be announced here.