Shaun the Sheep’s Picknit Challenge

Be part of this great community knitting project

To help celebrate Shaun’s return to the small screen, Aardman Animations are working together with the UK Hand Knitting Association, Future Publishing's Simply Knitting magazine and ICHF (International Craft and Hobby Fairs) to organise ‘Shaun the Sheep’s Picknit Challenge’

Calling all knitters to get involved in this national knitting challenge to knit Shaun a life-size picnic feast.

• Come along and have some fun - if you're not a knitter then come to natter.
• A chance to team up with like-minded knitters and get involved in a nationwide community project.
• Learn to knit for the first time -there'll be plenty of knitters happy to show you how easy it is.
• An excuse to enjoy a picnic and knit together over the summer.
• Everyone that knits something towards the PicKnit will see their work exhibited across the UK at craft shows with a life-size Shaun the Sheep in the midst of the knitted mayhem.

Let your imagination run wild and re-create your favourite picnic memories; sunshiny days with beach balls and ice-creams or kites, rugs, flasks of tea, cakes and wind-breaks. If you can see it on a picnic you can knit it!

The UK Handknitting website has a list of suggestions of what you can knit, and a Shaun The Sheep Page packed full of information about the challenge.

The completed picnic scene with a life-size knitted Shaun the Sheep in the midst of the knitted mayhem will be exhibited at the ICHF Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts shows in Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009.

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