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Surbiton Roundabout yarnbomb

01 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by Natasja in My crochet, Yarnbombing

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Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

No introduction needed for this photo, hey? As you can see we yarnbombed the lamp post and five bollards on the traffic island in front of Surbiton station.

In the space of one hour, the roundabout went from drab and dreary to striped and adorned with fruity bunting – the way all roundabouts should be I think.

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb
Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

It was soooooo much fun and I’m still on a yarn high!

Bobi Robson, from The Craft Inn came along to give John and I a hand.

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

Her help was much appreciated, and it ended up being a brilliant team effort. John had the great idea to bring along packaging tape just in case we needed it to keep the stripes up on the lamp post (and we did!), Bobi suggested we attach the bunting lower down on the lamp post to prevent the wind from blowing the bunting into cyclist or cars, and when we realised our cable ties were too short to go around the bollards, I suggested we tie the bunting to the cable between the bollards. Three problems – three genius minds at work.

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

I think John was amazing. He sewed two of the granny squares onto the bollards (a very unmanly thing to do for, what felt like, the whole of Surbiton to see) and then took on the task of getting really, really high on the ladder to put up the bunting (thereby redeeming his manliness).

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

The end result of our hour on the traffic island, and my four weeks of crochet, is a brilliantly colourful work of yarn graffiti.

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

Bobi and I at the Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb.

I hope the yarnbomb will raise awareness for the upcoming Surbiton Food Festival. If you found this blogpost because you Googled “weird woolen stripes on Surbiton roundabout” please also visit the Surbiton Food Festival website here, and of course come to the festival in May, otherwise my hours of crochet would have been in vain.

Well, probably not totally in vain because even if people don’t realise a food festival is coming, at least they can appreciate a bit of stripey colour in the middle of Surbiton.

Surbiton roundabout yarnbomb

And as you can gather, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I’m kinda proud of myself. This is my biggest, most prominent yarnbomb yet. The other three (warm-up yarnbomb dare I say?) are here here and here.

I hope you enjoy the new and improved traffic island. As far as I know the yarnbomb is staying up until the end of the Food Festival (19th of May) so you will have a lot of time to appreciate it in all it’s fruity glory.

Here’s a video giving you a 360 degree view of the yarnbomb.

Keep your eyes peeled around Surbiton, as Bobi and her Craft Inn pals will be adding more granny squares to the railings around the roundabout, and other crafty items will pop up around St. Andrews Square.  You have been warned. The craft bombers are coming!

P.S. If you ever get the urge to crochet apples, pears, oranges or strawberries like I did for this yarnbomb, there is a link to the pdf pattern in this blogpost. The fruit were originally designed by Louise Howe. They make excellent coasters. Which is what she designed them to be…. until this yarnbomber got her hook into them.

Castro “Cardigans” advertisement

25 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Natasja in Video, Yarnbombing

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A beautiful stop motion advertisement filled with crochet and romance. I can watch it over and over again.

The hot cross bun stitch – a video

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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I’m still busy with Fleur, aka the Summer Vest Take Two.

I’m not going to lie to you: I’ve been less enthusiastic about this piece of wearable crochet. I know it’s because I’ve lost momentum after having to frog the orignal Summer Vest, but I’m pushing hooking through.  I won’t allow myself to start another piece of wearable crochet until this one is finished (wish I had this kind of self control when it comes to a tube of Pringles!)

I’m not saying Fleur isn’t pretty or that the yarn isn’t pretty or that I don’t like the pattern, not at all! It just feels a bit “this has been done before”. Well, technically it has. Thankfully Fleur is going to be so much more flattering than the first Summer Vest. I have to start with the armhole shaping of the back panel this evening, and already I can tell that Summer Vest Take Two is going to be a hit and worn a lot (British Summer permitting).

As you can see I’m hard at work.

If you want to see a bigger picture of what I have so far, and how to make the Hot Cross Bun stitch….. watch this video.

Thank you for rEAding. Watch the video. You’ll see hear what I mean 😉

Constructing the Belle top – a video

05 Saturday May 2012

Posted by Natasja in My crochet, Video

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It’s my YouTube debut today! I’m so excited about Belle and have such a lot to say, a typed blogpost just wouldn’t be able to get the message across, so I did a video!

I put together the video to show you how to construct Belle. (I blogged about the gauge swatches and finding yarn for Belle, here.)

Please be patient with me, as it was the first time I did a video. You might have to turn up the volume a bit. There’s a lot of uhm’s and a bit of eye rolling whilst I try to find my words. The video also ends quite abruptly, but that’s because there’s a ten minute limit on YouTube videos (I actually talked for about 15 minutes, with a proper ending, but hey-ho.)

I hope the video helps you if you are making Belle, alternatively it gives you ideas for making a similar crochet top.

Please note that I’m making size M, so where I refer to 89 dc and 23cm, that’s specific to size M.

Terrific Tuesday

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Natasja in Terrific Tuesdays, Video

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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.

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I love this video!!! It really cheered me up this morning.  Taking photos in random settings – so me, and the famous last words “I’m on a yarn diet”. Yeah right.

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday.

Natasja

Cover your shoes in doilies!

13 Friday Jan 2012

Posted by Natasja in My ramblings, Other people's crochet, Video

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Source: Uploaded by user via Maria on Pinterest

 

Do you love this as much as I do? Isn’t it absolutely gorgeous? You can do it too! The video that shows you exactely how to cover your shoes with doilies, is posted as a favourite on my YouTube chanel, MrsCrocheTime. I hope to fill the YouTube chanel with more of my own crochet videos over time, but for now, enjoy the Craftzine video.

Merry Christmas hookers and yarnaholics!

25 Sunday Dec 2011

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