The challenge was set at the beginning of the year by activities co-ordinator Heidi Clayton to give the residents both a challenge to tackle and something she could use to create a display to commemorate Remembrance Week come November.
‘A couple of our residents and residents’ family members took up the challenge,’ said Mrs Clayton.
She felt that it was the sense of doing something for remembrance, as well as a general enjoyment of knitting, that sparked the flow of knitted items that followed.
‘We do have a couple of residents who like to knit. They put together all sorts of baby clothes and hats and things like that,’ she explained.
Armed with the hundreds of poppies that eventually followed, Mrs Clayton has now finished putting together the home’s display, ready for Sunday’s official commemorations.
‘I stuck all the individual poppies onto wreaths, and some on little bits of ribbon, and did a big display across our double doors that go from the porch into the lounge. And I’ve done a big archway going through into the main home as well, and then through into the lounge. So it’s sort of double-sided,’ she said.
Despite only just having put up the display, her mind was already turning to the question of what should happen with all the poppies after 11 November.
‘I think I would like to see if we could sell them off,’ she said.
‘The proceeds will go back into the home, and we’d use it for arts and crafts, or take the residents out for tea and cake and things like that.’
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