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Yarn bombers create Easter displays to brighten up Hurst village

by Sue Corcoran
April 4, 2023
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The Easter display at Hurst?s School Road pond. Picture: Sue Corcoran

The Easter display at Hurst?s School Road pond. Picture: Sue Corcoran

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Hurst Hookers, the yarn-bombing crochet and knit group, have created an amazing Easter display round the village pond and also on the village post box.

Characterful hens, chicks, rabbits and even a sheep are all hopping round the posts on the village pond’s edge in School Road.

Pip Etheridge of the group said: “It’s all looking really good. Just after we put it up on Monday I saw a little boy going from post to post to look at what we’d done. It made my day.”

Many villagers said how delighted they were with the display. One of them, Danusia Lupa, was inspired to get back into knitting again after a long break. Pip said she would send her the pattern to make the chicken.

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