The Nunthorpe and Marton balcony scene features corgis, the knitters’ hardest task because they were so tinyFor the Nunthorpe and Marton knitters from Middlesbrough, the first sight of Meghan Markle’s wedding dress on Saturday will be a tense moment. The team of 40 knitters from the northeast of England have spent five months creating a royal wedding balcony scene, now on display at Nunthorpe railway station. The bride’s dress is short-sleeved, beaded and white. The knitters have a plan, however, if their prediction is wrong: they will simply create a different dress in less than an hour. Brenda Thompson, a retired councillor who co-founded the group two years ago, said: “We think she might surprise us with her dress, so if when we see it our version is well off, we will aim to have [a new one] made and changed…

Source: The Times May 12, 2018 23:17 UTC