Northampton Museums & Art Gallery D-Day Poppy Project
Workshops at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery for those who might like to come along and join in with others in making their poppies. Just bring your needles/crochet hook
Saturday 3 February 10am – 12.30pm
Wednesday 28 February 4 – 6.30pm
Saturday 9 March 10am – 12.30pm
Saturday 13 April 10am – 12.30pm
FREE
We are looking for volunteers to help create a commemorative poppy display ahead of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2024
Our aim is to create one poppy for each of the casualties from The Northamptonshire Yeomanry, The Northamptonshire Regiment, those who served on or flew from Northamptonshire airfields and those from Northamptonshire who served in other armed forces.
We invite keen knitters and crocheters to support this project, whether local residents, community groups, schools, youth groups or knitting clubs, in helping make around 1000 poppies. The poppies will be used to create the display at Abington Park Museum a memorial to all those who gave their lives during the Normandy Landings.
You can join in by stitching a poppy and sending it to the Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP by 1 May 2024 at the latest.
The Museum has provided free crochet and knitting patterns which are available from the museum in person or by clicking the links below.
All you need are some small scraps of red and black wool, a crochet hook or knitting needles.
The exhibition will be on display at Abington Park Museum from 1 – 30 June 2024
Crochet Pattern - two petal poppy
Two Petal Knitted Poppy Pattern