Mysuru :

Six women from Mysuru were among the 2,500 women from across India, who recently made it to the prestigious Guinness Book of World Records for having created the ‘Largest Crochet Blanket’ measuring a staggering 11,148 square metres in size.

This was a pan-India initiative by the Mother India’s Crochet Queens Group, with women from many cities contributing towards this record.

Those from Mysuru who contributed to this world record are: Vasanthi Bhaskar, Lalitha Suresh, Kamalamma Sathyanarayana (not in pic), Navaneetha Jayaram Shetty, Devaki Ranganathan and Sujatha Badri.

The blanket, created by members of the Facebook group Mother India’s Crochet Queens, is made up of 8,000 individual pieces and is the size of one-and-a-half football fields, making it more than three times as big as the previous Guinness World Record, created by a group in South Africa.

This massive blanket was later segregated into 5000 individual blankets and donated to NGOs across the nation, according to Vasanthi Bhaskar.

The Facebook group was started by Chennai resident Subhashri Natarajan in August 2015 to connect with fellow knitting enthusiasts.

The project was a beautiful combination of social media and the old world charm of crochet, says Subhashri.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Friday – April 15th, 2016