York residents are being asked to put their best foot forward and make unique Santa’s Socks which will be filled with sweets and distributed by local food banks around the city.
The Santa’s Sock project, organised by the council’s York Learning team, is encouraging people to pull their creative socks up and have fun sewing, knitting, crocheting, up-cycling, felting, embellishing, stitching or sticking the socks. They can either be made at home or residents can attend one of the free creative workshops to learn new skills and make the stockings in a group.
The free workshops have limited places and take place at Huntington School from 10.30am to 3.30pm on Saturday 8 November and Saturday 15 November. The first workshop will cover knitting and feltmaking socks, whilst the second will produce socks through sewing and appliqué work.
The sock shape may be inspired by classic stockings, Victorian boots, elf boot or other Christmassy stocking shapes and should be about 35cm long and 25cm wide.
All the socks should be finished by Monday 1 December and when completed contact santassocks@york.gov.uk or Claire Douglas, York Learning, on 07990 774420. Photos of completed socks will be shared on York Learning’s facebook and twitter sites to inspire others and socks can be dropped off at the Gateway Centre, Front Street, Acomb, at West Offices or at Clifton or Acomb Explore Libraries.