Well, earlier today our wonderful organizer, Shirley, had the privilege of presenting the Pratchgan to Mr. Pratchett in person. She's posted about it, with photos! over on her blog.
She also wrote a letter explaining what it was and why we did it. Here's what the letter says:
Dear Mr Pratchett,
The Ankh-Morpork Knitter's Guild is a group on the fibre arts website ravelry.com where fans can come together to indulge our passion for all things crafty as well as all things Discworld.
At the end of last year we were trying to think of a way to show our support following the news of your Alzheimer’s diagnosis and being a bunch of knitters and crocheters (not to mention spinners, weavers and dyers) we decided a Discworld-inspired afghan blanket was the way to go.
Since 26th December 2007 ninety-nine people from all over Roundworld have contributed a square or two, causing my postman to start giving me some very strange looks. The project thread on ravelry has been a joy as people suggested themes, egged each other on or just had a rant when a brilliant idea turned out not to be so brilliant after all. Somewhere along the way the project became known as The Pratchgan 2008 and the name has now firmly stuck.
We send you this gift and the accompanying letters with all our love, to let you know that a bunch of strangers are thinking of you and also with our thanks for all the years of laughter that your books have brought us. If you ever manage to find the time to join ravelry (a wee birdie has told us that you spin and weave so it’s not entirely outwith the realms of possibility that you might feel the urge to join some day) we’d be honoured to have you as a member of the Guild.
We hope you enjoy The Pratchgan and that it brings you as much pleasure as we’ve had creating it.
Warmest wishes,
Shirley (ravelry name cherryred)
On behalf of the Ankh-Morpork Knitter’s Guild
I feel truly honored to have been a part of this. And yes, I did get a little bit teary-eyed at all of it.
2 comments:
After reading your's an Cherry's blogs I wanted to share the story with others.I tried with one person an that failed miserably lol.I thought about a few others an didn't feel like they would understand.So I think I'll wait till I see K.C.Until then way to go an proud of ya!
this is awesome, I love it :) I read the blog post on Cherry's blog about giving it over to him and such-fantastic. What a great project, I looked closely at the squares, you guys did an awesome job :)
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