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Read something about the Poppies that are given out in exchange for a donation at this time of year are to have a safety pin instead of the usual pin. This will add a lot more to their costs.

I noticed this on a web page.

http://www.knitonthenet.com/poppy/

It's only £2.00 and you don't have to download the pattern Even if you do knit and wear your own you can still donate as usual when the tin is rattled at Tesco and the Coop.

Jeanette

Jeanette wrote:Read something about the Poppies that are given out in exchange for a donation at this time of year are to have a safety pin instead of the usual pin.
Jeanette

Don't know about this poppy Jeanette, but recently on the news the rememberence day poppy the pin was to be replaced with a stick on version for safety reasons.

jdcarra wrote:Don't know about this poppy Jeanette, but recently on the news the rememberence day poppy the pin was to be replaced with a stick on version for safety reasons.

I wonder in the ninety years since the war finished how many folk have been seriously injured with the pin

Stick on version doesn't quite have the same impact JD. Will you be knitting one?


Jeanette

thanks for the link jeanette i have downloaded the pattern and will be knitting one for myself, so if anyone wants to see me i'll be the one with the weird looking red woollen thing hanging on her jacket lol x

witchnettle wrote:thanks for the link jeanette i have downloaded the pattern and will be knitting one for myself, so if anyone wants to see me i'll be the one with the weird looking red woollen thing hanging on her jacket lol x

Hoots new?

ha bloody ha petewick x

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

Jeanette wrote:Read something about the Poppies that are given out in exchange for a donation at this time of year are to have a safety pin instead of the usual pin. This will add a lot more to their costs.

I noticed this on a web page.

http://www.knitonthenet.com/poppy/

It's only £2.00 and you don't have to download the pattern Even if you do knit and wear your own you can still donate as usual when the tin is rattled at Tesco and the Coop.

Jeanette

I saw a box of poppies in Stirling yesterday. No usual pin - just a sticky pad for sticking to you! Save the needles!

Picked-up mine in The Glen Bar, Carradale, today and they're still fitted with the life-threatening pin.

Beachcomber wrote:Picked-up mine in The Glen Bar, Carradale, today and they're still fitted with the life-threatening pin.

Maybe that's leftovers from last year.
In Oban they've got plastic blunt ended pins.