Eye - 24 January 2014
Knit-ins and purls for peace
Knitting yarns Sheila Hancock is one of many Quakers to take up her knitting needles and purl for peace. Jaine Rose, organiser of the Wool Against Weapons campaign, paid her a visit: ‘She told us that she was on the original Aldermaston march in the fifties, as a young woman, and was very supportive of Wool Against Weapons, thinking it a grand idea, being a knitter herself.’ Wool Against Weapons (www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk) is a campaign that aims to knit a seven-mile pink peace scarf for use in a direct action protest in August, when it will be unrolled between the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites of Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire.
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