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London Lion Scarf • Natural History Museum Stitch a Squid • Prince Charles' Start Garden Party • Nintendo meets Stitch London
John Smedley Yarnstorm • Fifth Birthday Celebration • Vern and Lettuce Book Launch •
Science Museum Stitch Yourself • Hunterian Museum All Stitched Up •
Camden Crawl Graffiti Knitting 101 • Trafalgar Square Tiny Perching Pigeon Party •
• Fifteen Knitting Kit Launch • Derek the Sheep • Halloween at the Hunterian •
• 200+ Knitters at the Royal Festival Hall • Race for Life 2010 • Christmas 2010
Knit Crawl 2007 • Knit Crawl 2008 • Knit Crawl 2009 • Knit Crawl 2010 • Stitch Crawl 2011
• Stitched Science • New Cross Turn Left • Late @ Tate Britain •

		Late @ Tate Britain 2 Sept 2011 An arty night out with a bit of knitting thrown in? Stitch London are teamed up with London's Tate Britain museum for a night dedicated to their Restless Times exhibition. More info here
		NEW CROSS TURN LEFT We invited you to join The Fleece Station (where Stitch London is handmade) and friends for our first ever craft, comics and cake garden party New Cross Turn Left.
		Stitched Science at London's Science Museum 25 and 26 June 2011 The big Stitched Science event included woolly wonders of the universe workshops to help create the world’s largest handmade Stitched Solar System, a galaxy of cosmic craft events, and the chance to teach as a Stitched Science Star. See more here
		Stitch Crawl 2011 11 June STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! The Stitch London Stitch Crawl stomped across London for Worldwide Knit in Public Day (and International Yarnbombing Day) We raised £300 in our Stitch Crawl Really Rather Marvellous Raffle for Evelina Children's Hospital London More info here
		Stitch London Meet Nintendo 8 February 2011 We helped Nintendo celebrate the release of their squishy spectacular new game Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Nintendo Wii. Members entered a Kirby-a-Like Competition for a brand new Nintendo DS. Woot! More info here
		Stitch London's 5th Birthday Meeting 4 January 2011 We gathered at the Royal Festival Hall for our biggest meeting teaching meeting of the year.
		Stitch London Christmas Shindig 8 December 2010 HUGE Raffle of fabulous fibre-based prizes Stitch Secret Santa Drink, pub grub and Christmassy goodness Click here for a list of astoundly great raffle prizes
		October 21 2010 Vern and Lettuce Book Launch Stitch a Sheep! We joined Sarah McIntyre and woolly DFC heroes Vern and Lettuce for their book launch. Stitch a Square Sheep The Most Splendid Sheep Competition Signed copies of the book More info here
		October 11 2010 Yarnstorm at John Smedley's Britain's oldest knitwear designer, John Smedley, joined forces with Stitch London and sneaky stitchers Knit the City to bring you an original yarnstorm installation in John Smedley's Brook Street store. Click here for the whole tale
		Stitch London were invited to contribute two voluntary workshops to Prince Charles' 'Garden Party to Make a Difference' for his new Start charity. Worshop one: STITCH A SQUARE SHEEP Workshop two: PLASTIC BAG BUGS AND BLANKETS See the whole tale here
		Stitch London joined the folks at London's Natural History Museum on 27 August 2010 to bring a little stitched sealife to the world for the Deep Sea exhibition. The Stitch a Squid event invited you to come along and learn to knit a stitched squid and featured Plarchie, the 8-metre Stitched Squid made from over 160 plastic carrier bags. We also released six Deep Sea Escapees into the Museum. More about Stitch a Squid Buy the Stitched Squid pattern
		Stitch London teamed up with the talented knitter of tiny things, Anna from Mochimochi Land, to return the pigeons to Trafalgar Square in knitted form. The TINY PERCHING PIGEON PARTY took place on June 30 2010. See the whole tale here
		Stitch London teamed up with London’s Science Museum to create a Stitch Yourself exhibit for the re-opening of their Who Am I? gallery. On the 30 June 2010 259 Stitched Selves from all over the world were exhibited at the Museum. See the whole tale here. See the free blank body patterns here.
		Stitch London joined the 2010 Race for Life for Cancer Research on the 13th June 2010 through the concrete course of the City of London. We knit. We raced. We had cake after. See the whole tale here.
		The Stitch London Knit Crawl 2010 crashed through London on the 12th of June. Stitching masses took over the Natural History Museum, the V&A, the Albert Memorial and Kensington Park's Peter Pan Statue, all in aid of the Brains Trust. To see the whole day in glorious images click here
		Friday 14 May 2010 saw The Hunterian Museum open its doors after hours to bring you ‘All Stitched Up!’ - a special evening of handicrafts devoted to the art of the stitch in all its forms. For a look at knitting amongst the bodies and bones click here
		Stitch London held a knitting graffiti knit 'Yarnstorm 101' class at the Camden Crawl 2010. Mild-mannered non-knitters became sneaky stitchers.
		Meeting You Could See from Space Over 200 knitters and crocheters turned up to S&B London's first meeting of 2010. We taught dozens of learners and consumed more cake than the Royal Festival Hall thought possible.
		Stitch London meets the Beano Sheep Woolly madness broke out as Stitch London hosted the baaarmy ball of fleece that is The Beano's Derek the Sheep. See the exclusive interview on our blog.
		Fifteen Knitting Kit Launch In October 2009 we helped Jamie Oliver's Fifteen launch its rather fabulous knitting kit. Five of our lucky members won an exclusive invite. The food was as good as the knitting. See the full tasty tale on our blog.
		Knit of the Living Dead Halloween 2009 saw over 100 stitchers take their sticks and string to London's spooky but scientific Hunterian Museum where we knit surrounded by bones and bits of body. See the full horror on our blog.
		London Knit Crawl 2009 The Stitch London Tashtastic Knit Crawl 2009 took to the streets of lovely London Town on Saturday the 13th of June. It took in four iconic London venues. Tower Bridge - Tate Modern - London Eye - Trafalgar Square We raised over £1000 for Prostate Cancer UK. We wore woolly moustaches. See the full tashtastic tale on our blog.
		London Knit Crawl 2008 The S&B London Knit Crawl 2008 took place on June 14th 2008. It took in five iconic London venues. Westminster Abbey - St James Park - Trafalgar Square - Soho Square - Carnaby Street We raised over £600 for Breast Cancer Care with our Breast Cancer Care Blanket.
		Knit at the Movies Champagne Bar Joining forces with the lovely Greenwich Meantime Knitters, S&B London created the sparkly movie star knitting haven that was the Knit at the Movies Champagne Bar at the Alexandra Palace's Knitting and Stitching Show 2007.
		London Knit Crawl 2007 The S&B London Knit Crawl 2007 took in the ancient steps of St Paul's Cathedral, the echoing Turbine Hall of the Tate Gallery, the hustle and bustle in the shadow of the London Eye, and the choas of Trafalgar Square, for World Wide Knit in Public Day in June 2007. Click here to read more...
		SnB UK Blanket Knitting groups across the country knit together to create the wonder that was the SnB UK Blanket. It was exhibited at SnB UK Day in November 2007. Click here to read more...
		London Lion Scarf S&B London wrapped 550-foot of Lion Scarf around the chilly Trafalgar Square lions on the 20th of March 2007. We raised just under £3000 for Cancer Research. The London Lion Scarf was knit by over 150 fabulous knitters from 15 different countries around the world. Click here to find out more...

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