Park Your Yarn... (what!!?)...

Park Your Yarn is a Yarnstorming or Yarnbombing project happening near me.  I am super excited to be involved.  Here I am (in pink) at Saint Peter's Garden's Wolverhampton, crocheting with a lovely bunch of folks...

Needles, hooks and yarn were provided and we will be covering benches...

...and stone balls...

It's such a beautiful old-fashioned well-used outdoor space, perfect for a project like this.

Picture postcard really (can't wait to see it covered in knitted, crochety goodness!)

I met Cheryl from Art Yarn who was teaching crochet and Sara and Helen from Birmingham group Stitches and hos.  Sara taught loads of folks to knit and Helen knitted, rolled stacks of woollen balls and was the quickest person I ever saw learn to crochet.  EVER.  The folks from Wolverhampton Art Gallery were involved and seemed to be hosting the whole shebang.  I have always loved and appreciated that Art Gallery. 

We had a lovely day for it.  I crocheted a little pile of Granny squares as requested and got to help two lovely new friends learn to crochet (teaching always ticks my boxes)!!

I was really happy to meet fellow crafter and blogger, Helen, the Duchess of Fiddlefart herself, from the blog It's All Fiddlefart.  She has famous Monkeys who have their own blog.

That's 'Monkey' on the left and 'Darrell' on the right.  I was able to show them some crochet tips...

There was some serious concentrating went on...

But then some messing with the yarn...

...fiddling with my phone...

...and posing with Helen...

I chatted with a lady called Dorothy who'd come across on a coach and a local lady called Ann (and her Arty Hubby) who may want to start a local group up with me.  [Don't tell anyone but I am itching to do the yarnbombing thing where you sneak about at night covering public places with crochet and knitting..heehee] 

I've crocheted up a few motifs to help cover the stone balls...

The colours are meaningful to the project in some way.  Just not loving the acrylic yarn you have to use (been spoiled with cotton yarn for so long now).  The crochet motifs seem 'loose' but that's the hook size provided (4mm feels huge to me as my go-to hook is 2mm or less.  Anyway, I'm looking forward to hopefully meeting up again and feeling part of something 'Arty'.    :)

Check out this cool site...Knit the City

And finally, while on a yarny web surf, I came across this video and had to share it here.  I have watched it several times and always seen something new to smile about.

 

Thanks to Glittyknittykitty's blog where I got that fab video.

Right then. Onward and upward. x

P.S. no appologies for all the yarn gushiness... it's my blog and I'll gush if I want to!!

 

Comments

[Maz]

Would love to see the outcome of this project. Any piccies of the balls you were designing for? Seems like a good laugh. Think I've heard of this sort of thing before ... sure it's been on telly in past. Will be watching this space love xxx