Volunteers knit thousands of remembrance poppies
BBCThousands of poppies have been knitted or crocheted and installed at two Surrey churches ahead of Remembrance Sunday.
St Mary's in Worplesdon has installed 2,000 flowers and St Alban's in Wood Street Village has installed 1,000 after the poppies were donated over six months.
Janet Sutton, who organised the needlework effort, told BBC Radio Surrey that more than 60 people contributed since Easter.
"Communities up and down the country are doing this now and so I thought it was time that we did something," she said.
"It's been great the amount of people who have wanted to join in, young people and older people."
Catherine Mirmak, who helped store the finished poppies in her garage, said making the flowers "gives you time to reflect while you're doing it".
"Some are crocheted, some are knitted, the colours vary, because I think in the wild poppies are like that," she said.
The churches plan to reuse the poppies for displays in future years.
The knitted and crocheted flowers are attached to stems and embedded in ground beside the churches.
Ros Davison estimates she crocheted about 50 poppies, taking her wool on holiday and assembling them on the plane.
"It's visual and you know the whole community can see it, and know that they've been a part of it," she said.
Jenny Shaw and her friends knitted more than 100 poppies combined, she said, despite her being "not really a knitter".
She said: "I always thought that my poppies would not look particularly fantastic but actually they're fine."
Dan Shaw, on the churches' committee, said the poppies were "a blend of doing something new with something that's been around for over 100 years".
"I think it's brilliant. It's surprising if you ask your local community to do something, how it all just comes together and people do it."
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