Who wouldn’t love to beat a Guinness World Record? We know we would! Woman’s Weekly magazine has actually done that this week by knitting the world’s longest stretch of knitted bunting!
Woman’s Weekly invited their knitters to join them in each knitting at least one triangle – they ended up with over 13,000 made up of over 300,000 metres of wool. The final stretch measured at 3.2km and was hung in a continuous strip in Tunbridge Wells.
Here are the facts:
-3212.41 metres
-13,428 triangles
-25 metres of wool used in each triangle
-335,700 metres of wool used in total
-926 people helped make it
-The bunting weighs 61 Kilos
-It took 15 people four hours to lay out and measure the length of the bunting
Diane Kenwood, editor Woman's Weekly says: "The response we got from our amazing readers to this challenge was absolutely extraordinary. This is the first time in the magazine's 102 year history that we've tried something so ambitious and our office has been overflowing with gorgeous, colourful bunting for months. The trouble and effort every contributor put in to it is humbling. It's a joy to behold. You simply can't look at it without smiling."
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Posted by Amy Power.
