You’ll only need basic knitting skills to help someone stay warm this winter. The ABC Giving Tree Knit In will be held at the fair on all three days, so come along – bring your needles and wool – we need your knitting!

The ABC Giving Tree charities help people in need every year. You can help too. We’ll have a comfortable area set up for visitors to the fair to sit and knit, and the pattern for the squares will be there too (it also appears below).

Get involved at the fair:

 1. Bring along knitted squares to contribute to rugs
 2. Bring along wool to donate, for other people to knit
 3. Come and knit at the Knit-In
 4. Come along and teach other people to knit, so they can join in

Instructions for the squares:
• Use: 8 ply knitting wool and size 3.75 or 4.00 needles.
• Cast on 3 stitches.
• Knit in garter stitch, i.e. all plain.
• Increase at the beginning of every row to 60 stitches.
• Decrease at the beginning of every row to 3 stitches.
• Note: If you increase and decrease at both ends you will make a diamond – very difficult to join together.
• Finished squares to measure about 21cm x 21cm.
• If using 12 ply increase to 57 stitches.

16 squares make a cot rug, 24 squares make a nice size rug for a single bed, 35 squares make a rug with room to spare, but any size would be appreciated.

All donations of wool or knitted squares are appreciated.