We had wanted to tie in with Lymm Historic Transport Day since we first thought of having a permanent site for a tree. However, time is very tight yet again!! So this will be a smaller 2 layer tree like the Autumn one was. We have been asked to tie in with the Lymm Rocks …

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The Duck Race layer hadn’t been up long last year due to us replacing it with the coronation one, so it hadn’t faded at all, had had a wash when it was taken down, and was good for re-use for the annual Easter Monday Lymm Duck Race. Easter was early this year, so we had …

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We were able to put the Christmas layers up from last year. Still an impressive construction. Still one of my favourites as we didn’t define what needed to be done. People just made a lovely variety of squares in the Christmassy colours. We put lights on the outside rather than shining down on it this …

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A few of the autumn appliques that were made. And lots of amazing poppies I was a bit worried about just attaching these to net like we did for the Spring flowers layer, as the net would snap when moved about. So I crocheted a huge cone layer to attach them to. I specifically wanted …

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With the day of the King’s Coronation announced we decided we should do something! We decided to just change the bottom layer of the tree, as the Duck Race would have passed, and the Spring and Flower layers could stay up. In hindsight, updating this page much later, we left those layers up for way …

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Look at some of the amazing contributions to our first Easter / Spring Tree. It all starts with the basic squares that are needed to create the base layers. This is going to be another 3 layer 4m tall tree, with the bottom layer being linked to the village annual Duck Race, the middle layer …

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It is time to start thinking about our next project for Spring / Easter, and then the upcoming Coronation. Hopefully people will want to get involved in crocheting or knitting for these themes. The Duck Race / Spring & Easter / Flower Cascade. We are aiming to get this tree up in mid March. The …

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For those interested, here are some of the technical drawings of the structure behind the tree. All produced by Paul Middlehurst. This shows the scaffold pole, and positioning of the steel hoops. The scaffold pole is positioned into 1 cubic metre of concrete. The structure was given more support for the weight of wet yarn …

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The Lymm Tree was officially unveiled (the lights switched on, and ribbon cut) at 4.30pm on 3rd December 2022 by Chair of Lymm Parish Council Cllr Bob Barr. Thanks to so many people for contributing to this project. The many crocheter and knitters from our local community, Kirsty at Lymm Sanctuary Hub and Business Centre …

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Saturday 3rd December 2022 So the big day finally here. 8am the van loaded up and the checklist checked! First task on site was to cut back some of the large overhanging branches which were quite high up. We put up the scaffold platform for this. To construct the top cone we rested the scaffold …

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