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The annual Desford Scarecrow Festival returned over the August Bank Holiday with a theme of "The Reigning Years" a celebration of events that have occured during HRH Queen Elizabeth II`s reign. The theme "The Reigning Years" offered the creative residents and businesses of Desford a wide variety of options upon which to base their creations, many chose the Royals as a theme with a number of interpretations of the Queens famous parachute entry into the 2012 Olympics alongside Daniel Craig's James Bond. There where some fun interpretations of her majesty's faithful canine friends too with a highlight being a Corgi street party in Manor Gardens (renamed Royal Gardens for the occasion and detailing the lives of the royal family though the decades. The beatles arrived in a classic green car and we took a trip to the club tropicana. There was a Newsflash when the BBC (which celebrates its 100 year centenary in 2022) inspired one creator who turned their front gard...

The Platinum Jubilee celebrations continued in Leicestershire with Countesthorpe holding many events including a Yarnbomb which featured both a postbox topper and a life sized knitted version of the Queen sat on a bench with her Corgi companion beside her.

  As the country celebrated the Queens Platinum Jubilee many villages marked it with a Yarnbomb created by the community, Cosby was no exception with a life sized knitted version of the Queen herself complete with Corgi dogs on a walk. Over on the nook a post box topper featured representations of the gold state carriage a guard and a very cute corgi, the Yarnbomb was created by the Cosby Crafters.

A look at the Platinum Jubilee Yarnbomb created in the village of Barwell by the Knutty Knitters group to mark HRH The Queen's 70 Years on the throne. We see bollard toppers featuring the Queen in her various colorful outfits, some very cute Corgi dogs and a lifesize crown with it`s many hand sewn Jewels making it shine just like the real thing.