‘Crochet Queens’ to display their blankets today

Bahrain wing of Mother India’s Crochet Queens, a social media-based group of crochet enthusiasts, who aims to set a Guinness World Record of knitting the largest crochet blanket in the world, will display all the finished blankets at the Ramli Mall today (December 12) from 10.00am to 5.00pm. Bahrain wing of Crochet Queens includes 46 Indian ladies from the Kingdom who are in the final stage of their mission of being part of an attempt to create a new Guinness record.

Juzer Rupawala, Regional Director of the EMKE GROUP, will formally inaugurate today’s event. This mission has given women an opportunity to utilise their time to create beautiful blankets, which will eventually be given away to orphanages and old age homes.

When the group started their work in mid-October, they were not sure of how many blankets they could contribute to the mission. Gradually, the group got larger, and, will be sending about 116 blankets to Chennai, India for the final joining of blankets from all over the world, Bahrain coordinator Anu Venugopal told DT News.

The group is looking for sponsors to cover some of their expenses, and, contribute to the mission. Mother India’s Crochet Queens, was started by Chennai-based Subashri Natarajan. With the support of Indian women of all age groups from across the world, the group is working hard to finish the challenge by the end of the year.

The group of highly enthusiastic Indian women under the guidance of Subashri an MBA and an avid crocheter since the age of 10, have taken upon themselves the task of crocheting 5,000 blankets measuring up to a total of 5,000 square meters with the aim of setting a new world record and making a name for themselves in the Guinness World Records.

The current record set by South Africa in April 2015 stands at 3,377 square meters and Subashri and her team hope to break this record.

The group “Mother India’s Crochet Queens” set up in August 2015, comprises of nearly a 1,000 Indian women from all parts of the world aged between 8 years to 85 years.

A Facebook page by the same name has been created. 

WhatsApp groups have been created Area wise spanning all parts of India, to the USA, Gulf, Europe, Australia and Area Wise co-ordinators are working hard at keeping a track on the numbers.

While work is already underway where making the blankets is concerned the group is now looking at getting sponsors for the finale event to be held in Chennai on January 26, 2016, wherein Guinness officials will fly down from London to measure the blanket and officially bestow upon the group the title of the World’s Largest Crochet Blanket by Participating Group.

Caption : Today’s event will be formally inaugurated by Juzer Rupawala