We did it! On Friday 14th December, The Children’s Society broke the record for the World’s Biggest Christmas Stocking. The squares you have been knitting and sending in were put together into one giant stocking measuring 32.56m by 14.97m.
Previously the record stood at 19.25m by 8.23m, but we found out only weeks before our attempt that a group in Canada had just broken the record by a staggering 8 more metres. The record therefore now stood at 27.46m by 11.3m.
It was then all hands to the needles to sew together more squares and make The Children Society’s stocking even longer. Thankfully we had smashed the target for squares and had plenty available to add length to our stocking.
Altogether, over 6000 squares we sewn together to make our stocking nearly 33m long. We have also raised in the region of £30,000 through sponsorship.
The stocking was as long as 3 double decker buses, weighed the equivalent of 5 reindeer and there were a thousand presents to fill it with. These presents were sent to The Children’s Society’s projects in time for Christmas.
The stocking has been recycled, with blankets from it being donated to a local homeless charity.
Thanks are due to:
- Everyone who knitted squares for the stocking
- Students and staff of American InterContinental University for creating the ‘heel’
- Students and staff of the London College of Fashion for sewing together squares
- Fairway PSD Ltd for the boxes, presents and help with the logistics
- St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, for the use of their church for sewing together
- ExCeL for the generous provision of a space for the adjudication
- All the volunteers who came to The Children’s Society’s offices and to St Mary Magdalene to sew together squares, and for those blankets sent in.
Don't forget Alex Gore Browne's exclusive knitwear pattern to download for a donation.
