One of my goals for the year is to post monthly about any craft I have been doing
I have been fascinated by the rise in Yarn bombing. a novel I read a few years ago set in Bryon Bay and a group of 'after dark yarn bombers" because it was illegal. But today it seems to be popping up everywhere or even requested e.g. the Trees in City Square at Christmas
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| The garden when we moved in |
I haven't been impelled to join a project but thought I would do some at home.
We want to cover the Water Tank but that would be best tried by Celia with painting I think!!
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| The garden has greened up! |
So I decided to do a Tree Yarn Bomb using one of the pergola posts.
I started to just knit squares, and the measurements once I'd done a few, was just casting on till the needle was 2/3 full and the knitted length of the needles was the right width.
Sue Murdoch had recently learned to crochet so I asked her to do some pieces which were great.
She also did some leaves of various scale and design.
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| Sue's orange crochet piece |
Once I had them all finished I arranged them in a colour scale then started sewing
The stretch of the pieces made them grip well. Found it a little tiring holding them up as I stitched and clambering the ladder with care as I sewed!
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| I added this piece of wool as a caterpillar ! |
Then came the issue of adding branches
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| I used actual branches and covered them in a wool blend fabric |
Then trying out arrangements of the leaves and flowers etc
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| Checking out how they hang. |
The final result
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| Branches in situ |
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| Leaves need to be set so they hung OK |
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| The leaves |
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