Why A Gang Of Spanish Grannies Covered Their Local High Street In Woolly Blankets

In 2019, in a small town in southern Spain, a group of women started to crochet a giant woolly blanket. Not for themselves; not for their friends or families; but for their local shopping street. Four years later, the blanket has reached 500 square metres and the unstoppable grannies have already started on a second street. Why are they doing it? And how big will it get? I went to Andalusia to witness the woolly wonder for myself... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ MORE INFO The story of the giant blanket on the town's official website (in Spanish) - https://alhaurindelatorre.es/las-tejedoras-del-gran-toldo-de-la-calle-malaga/ Article in SUR about the copycat crochet canopy being made in New Iberia, Louisiana, USA - https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/guadalhorce-valley/alhaurin-crochet-awning-20220225130045-ntvo.html CREDITS Photo of Alhaurín de la Torre town hall by Juan de Vojníkov - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alhaur%C3%ADn_de_la_Torre_town_hall,_Spain.JPG Costa del Sol beach footage by Fran