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Intrecci Urbani Genoa yarnbomb – Trees

25 Monday Mar 2013

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Intrecci Urbani, the big yarnbombing event in Genoa that I visited over the weekend, was so big I will have split up my photo posts into at least five posts! This is post one.

Readers, I can’t stress enough just how big Intrecci Urbani was. There were hundreds of individual pieces of crochet and knitted decorations, ranging from tree coverings, rectangles attached to railings, pieces covering lamp posts, coverings for benches, ornaments hanging from trees, even a spiderweb and a Rastafarian.  Hours and hours, meter upon meter of yarn and millions of crochet stitches must have gone into this great project.

You can read more about the idea, and people behind, the project in this blogpost.

Below is a WordPress gallery of the yarnbombed trees. If you click on any of the photos it will open up a slideshow of full size photos that you can click through. I don’t think the slideshow function will work if you are reading this post on email, so I suggest visiting the “real” post if you want to see full size photos.

Olek is right – happiness is an inside job

07 Thursday Mar 2013

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Once you realise that your joy comes from within, rather than in response to what goes on around you, life is easy, life is good and all good things come to you.

(The latest Olek exhibition is called The End is Far. You can see more of her crochet writings here.)

Terrific Tuesday

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

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On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

xxxxxx

Beautiful crochet vases by Sanna and Sania. Oh, I do so much love a colourful stripe!

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday.

Natasja

Odd Molly crochet

28 Thursday Feb 2013

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The Odd Molly Spring / Summer 2013 collection is out now. It’s filled with edgy, yet feminine, crochet pieces. I love them all.

What I love most however, is the Odd Molly message: “you are perfect because you are not”.

Source: oddmolly.com via Natasja on Pinterest

Source: oddmolly.com via Natasja on Pinterest

Source: oddmolly.com via Natasja on Pinterest

Source: oddmolly.com via Natasja on Pinterest

Source: oddmolly.com via Natasja on Pinterest

How the German military keep their tanks warm

14 Thursday Feb 2013

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military vehicle yarnbomb

One of the Partners at the law firm where I work, sent me this photo via this link. Apparently the tank was yarnbombed by the women from Dresden, Germany and they used 36kg of wool!

I wonder if it shoots yarn? Would be great if it did. Every second shot could be a crochet hook and the victor would be the soldier that crochetes the most scarves for the opposing side. That’s my kind of “friendly fire”.

 

Terrific Tuesday

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

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On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

xxxxxx

 

For more flowery crochet shawls have a look at KnittedParadise’s Etsy shop. It’s crochet like this, that makes me love my craft even more.

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday!

Natasja

02 Saturday Feb 2013

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My contribution to Plank 2013 is the striped piece on the pole to the left of the Town Map. I’m so happy to be part of this huge Yarnbomb!

artrovings's avatarCAROL PARKER - social artist, supported with funding from Arts Council England, The Heritage Lottery, Cultural Olympiad 2012 and a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company

I made an early start and got to Market Rasen for 10am.   Amazingly no rain, wind, ice or snow, so spent a pleasant day sewing on all the knitted contributions (with only one coffee and cake break).

Took some pics so you can all enjoy the installation even if you can’t get to Market Rasen.  Very many thanks to all those who contributed and special thanks to Alison who did the beautiful ‘plank’ pieces and stayed to help me put the rest up, a real star.

I’m not going to thank everyone by name as I know I’ll forget someone….but you are all very lovely and anytime you need some knitting done let me know! x

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More Mad Men

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Continuing with the Mad Men theme of earlier this week, check out the cast of Mad Men in crochet amigurumi!

Every figure is custom crocheted in order to capture the special details that make each character unique.  From Peggy’s ascot to Cooper’s suspenders to Joan’s *ahem* curves, each Mini Mad Men doll is a tribute to one of the best shows on TV.

It’s the work of an American crochet artist called Smapte, who sells on Etsy under the name Xanadoodle. You can see the full listing for the six amigurumi dolls here.

I think my favourite doll is Peggy, although I really like Joan’s hair. Did you notice that Don is the only one without a big friendly smile? Probably because he’s the character who says things like “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.” Real life, or amigurumi – Don doesn’t do friendly.

Which Mad Men mini doll is your favourite?

Terrific Tuesday

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

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On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

xxxxxx

Boo sent me a link to this crochet alligator by Olek. Olek created the ‘crocheted jacaré’ installation in São Paulo, around the alligator shaped playground on the SESC grounds for the SESC 2012 arts show.

Isn’t it amazing? It must have taken her and her team days to complete this. You can see more photos here.

(Images by lost art)

 

 

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday.

Natasja

Crochet on TV (more Mad Men)

06 Sunday Jan 2013

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Shortly before Christmas I received an email from Charlotte asking me whether I know how to make the crochet blanket that is draped over the couch of the Draper’s living room in Mad Men. (Did you see what I did there…? Draped over the Draper’s couch. Genius.)

Charlotte said she has spotted this crochet blanket in scenes from Mad Men Season 1 through to 3. How did I miss  that?!  Oh yes, I know. Mr. Draper himself was usually in the scene with the crochet blanket so my attentions were a tad diverted….

Mad Men blanket

Focus on the blanket ladies. Eyes to the right.

Upon closer inspection of this scene from Season 3, Episode 1 above I can safely say that the crochet blanket in Mad Men is a classic Catherine Wheel design in black, red, lemon yellow, mint green, white and beige with a deep red / maroon edge.

It looks like the blanket in Mad Men is the same as the one in another TV series, Breaking Bad. Sarah London explains in this blogpost exactly how to recreate the Breaking Bad blanket by using the Catherine Wheel crochet stitch, in other words, also how to create the Mad Men blanket seeing as it’s the same pattern!

The only slight difference I see is that in the Mad Men blanket, they sometimes have two rows in the same colour (like the lemon yellow in the photo at the top of this post), but apart from that, it’s very similar.

If you make a Catherine Wheel crochet blanket in black, red, lemon yellow, mint green, white and beige you will basically have recreated the blanket from two TV shows: Mad Men and Breaking Bad give or take a few colours! Score!

If you need more help, I found a video by the Crochet Geek on youtube that shows you exactely how to make a Catherine Wheel, also known as the Harlequin stitch.

 

On the Berocco website you can find a free pdf pattern for a Catherine Wheel blanket. They call it “Greenway” and it’s really pretty.

If we drape a Catherine Wheel crochet blanket over our couch, do you think Mr. Draper will drape himself over same couch? One can only hope…. and hook.