Knitting and Embroidery Meet-up for Palestine: End-of-Summer Event

Date: 17.06.2026
Time: 18:00-21:00
Host: Strikk for Palestina


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Welcome to our knitting and embroidery meet-up!

We’re looking forward to our end-of-summer get-together and raffle. This will be the last knitting meet-up before the summer, and we’re holding a raffle to raise funds for the Snabel Friendship Nursery in Gaza.

On the evening, you can also join in knitting squares to be made into a solidarity blanket with a heart for Palestine (a new blanket design is in the pipeline), baby knits to be sent to Palestine and Lebanon, or other solidarity knits. We also have some embroidery kits for those who’d like to embroider. We’ve got materials, and the knitting and crochet is simple – there’s always something to help if you don’t have much experience with knitting or crochet.

Please bring knitting needles sizes 3–3.5 or crochet hooks sizes 2.5–3.5. If you have baby yarn in various colours or wool yarn in red, white, green and black that you’d like to donate to the solidarity knitting project for the Handala – Palestine shop, you’re welcome to bring it along. Extra equipment and yarn are available for anyone who’d like to contribute to the solidarity blanket.

If anyone has newborn knits that can be sent to Lebanon and Palestine, or other knits for the shop or for the 2027 bazaar, you are welcome to bring them along to the meet-up or drop them off at the Handala shop.

We will be serving food from Palestine and cakes with coffee or tea.

Welcome!

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About Knitting for Palestine
Knitting for Palestine in Bergen is a network of over a hundred individuals who have found a sense of community through various craft traditions. Our aim is for the items we create to raise funds for humanitarian work in Palestine.

About Sylskarpe sting (Dragen)
The words of Rafaat al Areer’s latest poem from Gaza, ‘If I Must Die’, carry with them sorrow, hope and sumud – steadfastness. As a joint initiative with Sylskarpe sting, nearly 100 people have embroidered the words of the poem and patterns with deep roots in Palestine, tatreez, which form a frame for the poem. This has been assembled into a kite. It has been sewn in despair and anger that the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine are allowed to continue. That is why we will continue to tell the story of Rafaat and others who had a desire to live.

Rafaat al Areer was a writer and professor of literature in Gaza. He was killed on 6 December 2023 in an Israeli airstrike, along with his family. Since his death, the poem ‘If I Must Die’ has become widely known and has been translated into more than 250 languages.

Behind the razor-sharp stitches are Solidaritetsstrikk in Bergen, the Handala Palestine Shop in Bergen, Handala’s Friends and Norwegian People’s Aid’s Women’s Network in Bergen. The dragon has met Jens Stoltenberg, visited the Bergen Assembly, Bergen Cathedral and Oslo Cathedral.

We are currently working on organising an event in Bergen featuring the dragon and will provide updates as soon as we have more information.

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This event is free and open to all.

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