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Despite the highly changeable weather, we had a great day at the Commonwealth Games Cycling Road races today, and the crowds of people who gathered to watch the race loved the hand-knitted flags! Thanks so much to the Glasgow Uni historians and friends who were pressed into flag-hanging and photography duties. But mainly thanks to… Continue reading →

We’re hoping to hang the Commonwealth flags in front of the University of Glasgow Sunday AM. But the weather report sounds threatening, so we will need to watch the forecast (and the clouds)!  Fingers crossed!

We had a fun Flag Friday! Twenty gold medals were awarded today, to competitors from eight Commonwealth nations: Australia, Canada, England, Kenya, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa and Uganda. To see these and all the other flags, please visit our Flickr page. Thanks to all of you who joined in, retweeting and posting our messages,including the… Continue reading →

Welcome to Flag Friday! We will be following all of today’s results on our project twitter feed (@glasgowuniknit) by posting the appropriate knitted flag for every gold medal won. Twenty gold medals will be awarded today…follow our tweets to see how many different flags are being raised!

Commonwealth Flags knitted by Glasgow University knitters adorn the Kelvingrove bandstand. We hope the flags will feature at various sites around the Games. Watch this space or follow our twitter feed @glasgowuniknit  

There seem to be a lot of crafty events going on in Glasgow during the 2014 Cultural Festival. At Glasgow Green, Scottish knitwear firm Eribe has a pop-up shop and hand-knitting demonstrations, and are contributing to the decor of the festival site! The Scattercraft community of crafters have been decorating the Mount Florida neighbourhood with… Continue reading →

It’s the first day of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and a wonderful community of knitters radiating out from the University have crafted beautiful flags of the participating Commonwealth nations. We are just in the process of putting these together into a giant bunting, which will be displayed a few places around the University and… Continue reading →

Wanted to give a shout out to Crossroads and Govanhill Church for the wonderfully knitted number 8 in the countdown to the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony last night. Clearly the Games have inspired a lot of crafting in Glasgow! (Number One was quilted so it was a good night for needle arts!)

We have our first knitted flag – Tuvalu – knitted by Myra. We will be posting images of them as they come in…