The Warm Trees Project 2026 "Getting to Know your Arboretum" is starting.

Warm Trees 2026

The Warm Trees (WT) project for 2026: “Getting to Know Our National Arboretum” has started and planning and knitting are underway!

Scarves
This year there will not be a specific colour focus for the scarves, so you are free to knit or crochet scarves in one or more colours of your choice - the brighter the better. However in keeping with the forests we are focussing on, yellow, orange, red, white and green colours would be appreciated as well as the colours used in the Friends logo. As in previous years, acrylic is preferable, although if you have any woollen items past their best that you can undo and reknit as a scarf, that is fine - just let us know when you deliver it that it is wool. And please continue to use garter stitch, that is, knitting every row, so that the edges stay flat. The size should still be one metre long and 25 cm wide, although we would like a few scarves that are longer - either 1.25 metres or 1.5 metres, as some of the trees are getting thicker trunks.

If you want to find out more, including about patterns contact us through: warmtrees.fnac@gmail.com