Her aim has always been to raise as much money for the NHS which cared for her late husband Fred, who passed away, aged 84, from prostate cancer in 2013. A fitting way for a great-great grandmother from Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk to finish her patriotic fund-raising projects.īorn in 1929 to a local Norwich family, Margaret is the last of her six siblings, but she has been blessed with her own large family. The gilded bronze Winged Victory, imposing Queen Victoria and other marble statues on the memorial represent courage, constancy, victory, truth and motherhood. She says: “I have four to six weeks’ knitting left to extend the road out to the mall from the gates and knit the white marble Queen Victoria memorial roundabout.” Previously Margaret spent two years knitting an 18ft woolly replica of Sandringham Palace for 15 hours a day to raise funds for Addenbrooke’s new Cambridge Children’s Hospital.Īnd now, having spent eight months knitting Buckingham Palace for 10 hours a day, Margaret’s masterpiece – complete with mini guards in bearskin hats – is almost finished. Margaret says: “When sewing the white ermine fur to the base of the cosy, keep the stitching nice and loose so that it fits easily over a spout and handle.” And the supreme knitter had a bit of handy advice for would-be crafters.
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