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Giant blanket to ‘hug’ mountain

Ann Jordan's giant blanket laid out on the Gower before it was finished

A massive hand knitted blanket is going to "hug" a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park on Mother's Day.

Swansea Met student Ann Jordan, from Killay, has spent 1,500 hours knitting the 20 ft blanket from 12 miles yarn.

On Sunday, it will finally be laid out at a Bronze Age burial chamber on the Black Mountain after being carried along an old coffin route.

The former midwife's ambitious Cwtch project has taken two years to come to fruition.

The mature student hopes it will help change the way people think about farming families and Welsh communities.

She has knitted 140,000 stitches over a year for her creation.

Read more at  -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southwestwales/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8559000/8559938.stm

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