Settle knitters to greet Tour cyclists

By The Newsroom
Published 16th Apr 2016, 08:30 BST
Debbie Hall (right), shop manager for Age UK, with assistant manager nLucy Kay and some of the colourful buntingDebbie Hall (right), shop manager for Age UK, with assistant manager nLucy Kay and some of the colourful bunting
Debbie Hall (right), shop manager for Age UK, with assistant manager nLucy Kay and some of the colourful bunting
Settle volunteers have been busy knitting hundreds of triangles to make bunting to celebrate the Tour de Yorkshire coming through the town.

Stage one of the prestigious race finishes in Settle on April 29 and residents have been seized by cycling and knitting fever.

Around 1,300 triangles have been knitted, forming around 400 metres of bunting to be draped around the
town.

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The project has been coordinated by Settle’s Age UK shop, which has been inundated with knitted triangles of all colours.

Debbie Hall, Settle’s Age UK shop manager, said: “We have lots of ladies who stitch and sew and knit for lots of different projects.

“Whenever they get behind anything, they get behind it in a big way.

“When we got to hear about the Tour de Yorkshire I asked if they would be interested in doing something to support the event, and it’s just gone mad.

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“Our office has been floor to ceiling with knitting and they’re still coming in now.

“Some ladies have knitted 10 triangles and some have done 50.

“One little girl knitted a triangle while she was on holiday visiting her granny.