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Knitted squares go off to Normandy

ALDERNEY'S knitting group will send a consignment of 200 hand stitched squares to Normandy next week, to be draped over a WW2 Mulberry Harbour loading platform in Arromanches.

The group, called Needles and Pins, answered a call to arms from resident Ilona Soane-Sands, who had made contact with an artist named Van Luc Nghiemphu in Arromanches during a trip to Bayeux. She learned that the latter was spearheading a project to create 21,000 knitted "Squares of Peace" to mark the sacrifice of 21,000 soldiers and residents who died on 6th June 1944. Seventeen local nd visiting knitters made the Alderney squares, and they will transported by a delegation setting off to bring the Alderney Tapestry back from Bayeux. The blanket will be draped over the platform on September 20th.

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