'Needle-less' to say another great creation by local knit group!

To celebrate the local post office counter opening, Dersingham's 'knit and natter' create Postman Pat postbox topper.

I meet the knit and natter group at Dersingham library - and there they are - knitting and nattering.

Kathy’s been coming for around 16 years, “I couldn’t knit when I came, I hadn’t knitted since I was a young teenager - and I came here and learnt. I’ve made some lovely friends and also made lots of lovely garments.”

You may have seen their most recent creation on top of the postbox along Hunstanton Road - Postman Pat and friends.

“It was Maureen, who’s not here, it was her idea, because the new post office counter was going to open, so we thought it’d be a great idea to do Postman Pat," Kathy explains, "So we all chipped in and put it on the night before it opened, so they didn’t know we were doing it - and on it went.”

“Everybody’s loved it, we’ve had some lovely comments, when we did the first one in the summer - that was going to be a one-off, but then we had so many lovely comments - we did another one and they do get addictive!”

The women are now working on their fourth for November - to mark Remembrance Sunday, and already knitting’s started on a Christmas one. Judy’s made a choir boy, “Hopefully put 3 in a row as if they’re singing in a choir,” she says.

Judy goes on to tell me she loves the group, “It’s a way of me getting out because I live on my own, I started with the group and I’ve made some lovely friends. Every Thursday I look forward to it.”

I ask Sally, who’s busy sewing poppies onto a chain, what it’s like when they put the knits up. “Oh yes it’s lovely to see what we’ve finished, and people come and take photographs of what we’ve done - and when it gets into the paper it makes you feel really chuffed - that you were part of doing it.”

Before I leave I ask if more chatting goes on then knitting, “Probably more natter than knitting,” and they all laugh. Kathy adds, “Well you take it home, what you've been working on, and realise you’ve done it all wrong!”

Off I go to take a look at Postman Pat. Nigel’s posting a letter and says he thinks it’s brilliant, “All of them have been, I look forward to the next.”

I ask Mike Rivers, the new postmaster, what he thinks. “Absolutely fantastic - it’s absolutely brilliant and I think they’ve done a tremendous job and they keep changing it, I’m totally surprised - I don’t know what I’ll be met with! It’s really a very good gesture from them.”

Mike Rivers, local postmaster

I forgot to mention the group asked if I'd like to join - if they'd ever seen any of my attempts at knitting - they most likely wouldn't have!

Looking forward to seeing their next creations though (without my help), and I wonder what's in store for next year?

Knit and Natter meets every Thursday from 10 til midday at Dersingham Library