Keep Calm and make bunting for the Queen!

TO fully decorate the Big Thame Street Party after the Carnival procession in June, to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, around 600 metres of bunting will be needed and, as ‘many hands make light work’…………

Thame WI, Barley Hill Church and The Orders of St John Care Trust (Meadowcroft Care Home) are leading a joint, community effort to collect material, cut triangles from templates and sew the bunting, and they want as many people as possible to take part.

So, how will work and how can people get involved in this mass bunting, production project?

In the next two weeks – by May 1 – a stock pile of material will be needed. It needs to be predominantly red, white and blue. Old sheets would be ideal but cotton or poly-cotton clothing will work too. These should be bagged.

In the following two weeks – by May 15 – the material needs to have been cut into bunting triangles using a template available from Racquets Fitness Centre.

The two following weeks will be taken up by sewing the triangles to the tape which will be carried out at a meeting of sewing machines at Meadowcroft Care Home in Towersey Road, during the week beginning May 16. The dates available for the sewing sessions in Meadowcroft’s function room are:

Monday, May 16 – evening only
Tuesday, May 17 – all day and evening
Wednesday, May 18 – morning until 1pm and evening

The project leaders would love to hear from anyone who can help. If you can donate or organise the collection of material, or maybe cut triangles – perhaps during an activity hour or two for a group – then contact: thamecarnival@gmail.com