Grandma finishes Covid crochet bedspread project

Evonne Pavle has completed a crochet bedspread, which she started during the Covid-19 lockdowns

A great-grandmother who helps run her family's pub has completed a crocheted bedspread which she first started in the Covid-19 lockdown.

Evonne Pavle, 85, who runs the Packhorse Pub, in Mark, Somerset, has created the bedspread entirely from her imagination, with no official pattern.

Regulars at the pub who have been eagerly waiting for her to finish have been impressed by the result.

"I feel so happy," said Mrs Pavle. "When I finished putting it on the bed, I said [to my daughter] Sophie, I can't believe I did that!"

The pattern for the bedspread was also designed by Mrs Pavle

She said her mum knew how to crochet, but she did not pick it up herself until shortly after moving from Cyprus to England in 1953.

"I couldn't speak or read English, and I went with my friend to a shop and I picked up some leaflets, and of course I couldn't read," she explained.

"I just see the patterns and I start doing some runners for the coffee table, for the bedside cabinets and things like that."

It has taken around six years for Mrs Pavle to finish the bedspread

She began working on the bedspread when she was bored during the lockdowns, using some Egyptian cotton which she brought back from Cyprus.

"It was a bit difficult, as I was doing it, sometimes I was missing one stitch, and I didn't realise until I was coming back and I had to undo it," she said.

"We're really proud of her," Mrs Pavle's daughter Sophie said

Her daughter Sophie Pavle said: "We're really proud of her and she's been doing it like since lockdown, putting it down, picking it up, a bit of a labour of love towards the end, but finally she got it finished."

Ms Pavle explained that they had found an old Christmas card from her grandfather inside one of the balls of yarn that Mrs Pavle brought back from Cyprus.

"It was kind of really nice when she got to the end, and then she found that - it felt like everybody's been involved in it in some way," she said.

The bedspread has been made using Egyptian cotton